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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We went to in info session for the Arts & Sciences school.  It was disappointing.  The presentation was totally focused on outcomes - jobs, internships etc.  Barely a word was said about classes, learning, books, discussion etc.  you would think Arts & Sciences would focus on the excitement of learning.  Campus is massive and core classes in the first year are 400+ kids.  May be a good school for pre professional kids who just want a job, but I doubt many kids come out of there with a thirst for learning/curiosity etc.[/quote]

Having just gone through the college process with 2 kids…Yes, the UT campus is large but it’s a school for 50K. For that many students I actually found the campus to be compact. Compare to Michigan with its North Campus and Central Campus. Michigan has about 20K less students. I find he Michigan campus to be much larger.

400 students in an intro class. Not shocked. I asked students about the large class size on the Cornell tour. She said some intro class had a 1,000.

And it’s funny, on other tours I found many schools did not talk about student outcomes and placements. Frankly isn’t that why kids go to college? What are they going to do with a degree from x university? Will they need to go to grad school afterwards? Weren’t many of you the same folks worried about getting your kids into the right high school for colleges? I specifically asked students on other college tours some of these questions. Some of the answers were shocking. UT could tell me what % of kids had internships between freshman and sophomore year. They also told me the average hourly rate. At an ivy, the response was “not many” for students in the same major. It was mainly between junior and senior year. And those students that got internships after freshman year, it was because of personal networking. Nothing from college. A thirst for learning can look different - some students prefer to try out different jobs and careers and learn that way vs stuck in a library with books. Just look at Northeastern’s co-op model.[/quote]

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