University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Good luck keeping consistent financial aid. The woman who runs it, Paula, has her head up her ass. She gave me multiple reasons why I lost financial aid. I made too much money (17,000 for a single parent household?) nope. Then my grades weren’t good enough. (3.9 gpa & active in the school) after two failed appeals I went somewhere else and now have three degrees, no thanks to UMD. But the Boston bomber didn’t have a problem here though. Losers… don’t go here if you value your education.

don’t waste your time. professors don’t teach, they just read from overhead slides. i am an accounting major and an excellent math student. i have taken accounting i twice with two different professors and i’m still confused. all (if not most) professors prefer online instruction over class room. don’t waste your money and just go to an online school. they basically read the slides and then post them. you are not taught, you must learn on your own. class room instructions is non existant! and when there is, the professors difficulty with the language makes it impossible to understand what they are saying as most (if not all) accounting professors are asian!!! such a waste of my time and money. don’t go to this school!!!

I have attended 4 state colleges in Mass. and graduated from 3 of them (2x magna cum laude) They included Bristol Community College, Bridgewater State College (now a university) and UMass Boston. Without a doubt, UMass Dartmouth is the WORST of them. THE WORST! It’s literally 2 miles from my house and I elected to drive an hour to Boston in rush hour traffic to avoid going to this pit. Everything about it sucks: the staff are incredibly unhelpful and rude, the grounds and buildings are decaying more and more each year, most faculty I have dealt with are arrogant pr&cks who are more interested in publishing than helping students succeed. (Don’t get me started.) I work in a nearby college, which I won’t name because folks reading this will think I have an agenda. I **frequently** hear students complaining about UMD and elect to go elsewhere before earning a degree — just as I did several years ago. Everyone has the same complaints, so you have to know it’s true: You are treated like a social security number, you have to fend for yourself, the students are snotty, the staff are HORRIBLE, and the buildings are a pig sty. It’s not uncommon to walk into a bathroom and smell urine (big time) and see toilet paper strewn all over the floor. There’s no paper towels, and a toilet is either ripped out of the wall or it’s clogged. I think they clean the bathrooms once a week. I could go on but I can feel my blood pressure rising. Two words: GO ELSEWHERE! Seriously, I would go to Kaplan or Phoenix U. before I’d return to UMD.

I would have to say I really enjoyed my time at UMass Dartmouth and I was able to get my Bachelor’s Degree without a hitch. I attended UMass Dartmouth for two years after I transferred from Bristol Community College.
However, I attended this college as a commuter so I can only speak about how my commuting experience was. My classes were two days a week so I was able to make a schedule that worked around my job. The college is very large with the parking lots shaped around the buildings like a circle so it will take getting use to but it has a new renovated library which is a great place to get your work done. My only complaint is the parking decals are very expensive and if you don’t pay for a sticker, you’ll get ticketed almost every time.
I also found this college to be affordable for a university, especially me being a Massachusetts resident. I was able to get financial aid for the majority of my time there so my debt is less than $ 5000 dollars. I would recommend this college to anyone who’s serious about going for their Bachelor’s. If you can get a Pell Grant, then heck, you got nothing to lose as a Pell Grant might even cover the whole cost. UMass has majors that are in high demand fields employers want. A great college to go for the science and arts programs alike. I see no point in paying thousands more for the fancy, Ivy league colleges. You are just paying for the name. In the end, a BA or a BS is the same no matter where it was obtained. State colleges are just fine.

I went to UMD for four years. It was a waste of my time.
Remember kids, chose your major wisely.

ABSOLUTELY enjoyed every minute of my time here at this 4-​year university. Graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing in the large amphitheater this past May 2008.
The Nursing program at the school is rigorous, tough, and excruciating at times.. .. but totally and completely worth it. Real-​world experience in the form of clinicals begins in the Sophomore year, earlier than most colleges I’m aware of. Classes take the form of small groups, lecture halls, lab practicals, etc. Each step preparing you and honing your skills for a life after college. Here, they actually teach you what you’ll need to know when you jump into your first job.
As far as I’m aware, the college boasts one of the largest passing rates of the NCLEX (nursing boards) post-​graduation. I passed on the first time and felt highly prepared starting my first RN position at a local hospital. As a side note: The college of nursing (mostly girls) is located right next to the college of engineering (mostly guys).. . you do the math.
Looking past the academic aspect of the university.. . the campus offers a large amount of clubs, groups, activities, jobs, meeting places, etc for the student body to enjoy and use. Dorms range from single rooms all the way up to apartment styled areas complete with living rooms, kitchens, and separate bedrooms.
Though things quiet down on the weekends, as the college seems to be made up of mostly local travelers who are able to visit friends from home at this time.. . there’s always somewhere to go, somewhere to party, some adventure to go on. The small campus atmosphere makes meeting new people with similar interests and goals easy to do! Parking sucks but they can’t win in every area.
I highly recommend this school to anyone interested in Nursing, anyone who enjoys a close-​knit campus atmosphere, etc.

Loved this school. Graduated with a Operations Management degree, and am running my own business currently.
Every school has it’s quirks obviously, but I after visiting other schools this one looked a lot better.
PRO’S: LOVE the architecture, not really something that everyone likes, but it has a lot of twisted cement buildings. The inside of some of them has floating cement platforms that you can study on or take little pathways to get to. Crazy design.
Campus life is great PLENTY of clubs to join. From Lacrosse to… theatre, to playing like magic the gathering at 4 in the morning in a closed building.
Party’s. Love the party’s. Typical crazy college party’s except, unlike at Umass Amherst you’re not going to get raped or killed on your way back to your dorm. The Dartmouth campus is small enough so that you’ll probably recognize most people in your grade by the 4^th year there, but the school is large enough to allow to meet fun new people all throughout the school years.
Classes are very well put together, I loved the structure of the majors and how they branched out by junior year into different subdivisions of what major to choose. Homework wasn’t bad for most of the classes if you actually can handle a little responsibility.
I loved the dorm rooms, start out smaller freshman year and end up with your own mini house that you share with 3 people, but with your own room by senior year
CON’S: Parking sucks dick. They can’t even add anymore parking lots because the campus is setup as a circle and the ground for draining rain runoff is already so small that floods can happen in some areas. Also weird ritual where peoples side-​view mirrors on their cars get hacked off like every night.
A good number of foreign teachers that might be hard to understand.
And of course the normal woes of college such as your dick RA’s you get sometimes, the shitty online add classes system (called COIN here) bla bla bla.
But no school is going to let underage kids just drink their asses off and not do homework so I mean whatever. Not quite con’s at all. We got our RA to do keg stands in the dorm room so can you!
Overall I recommend this school as a cheap alternative that receives the same accreditation as Harvard when you graduate, without paying it off the rest of your life.

My younger brother graduated from UMASS Dartmouth on Sunday with a degree in Biology. (Congrats Jimmy!)
I drove my parents to the ceremony. We arrived an hour and a half early and there weren’t any seats left. The school allowed people to save one and two rows of seats for their friends meanwhile elderly and handicapped people had to climb up a small wall and sit on a small grassy hill. There was only about ¼ of the seats needed out.
There was a huge empty field next door, where there would have been plenty of room for a ceremony instead of the extremely cramped amphitheater, where it was held.
The ceremony itself was great except for the commencement speaker who gave the most depressing graduation speech I have ever heard.
After the ceremony, my brother had to get the last few things out of his dorm room. Instead of the moving out I was used to during my college days, we were forced to circle around the campus then wait in line to get to his dorm, which was one block away from where we were parked. We moved out in about 15 minutes but to get to the dorm took over 45 minutes.
UMASS Dartmouth is a great school but after 108 years, they still have not gotten graduations down.