University at Albany, SUNY - UAlbany (reviews)

This is a good university. Lots of community, diverse buildup of people, a lot of didn’t clubs and orgs for everyone to fit somewhere. I don’t like the surrounding are. The city is so boring. The campus life is good, but if you have no car, you have no life outside campus.

My opinion on Albany State University located in Albany, Georgia is that of mediocrity. From my personal experience, a degree that should’ve taken four years has taken me six to seven. I was originally a social work major and going into my senior year I ended up switching to a sociology major. I am a unprecedented student being the fact that I grew up in care and have no parents so I have no financial support. With that being said, the university should’ve stepped in as an adoptive parent almost to make sure I had everything I needed and to take care of my every step of the way. That was no the case. Albany State University almost fought me every step of the way to graduation. I even ended up walking across the stage in May, was contacted in July and told I didn’t graduate, was required to pay $1,200 to retake one class to pass for Albany State to release my diploma, and had to go another 6 months being unemployed because I did not possess my diploma. Albany State University didn’t supplement my income, they didn’t help get work study, they didn’t help with career or internship opportunities; they did not help with almost anything. I’ve gone my entire college life working full time pulling over 100 hours a pay period and getting my work done. However, because my life was not convenient for University lifestyle that made my life and college experience even harder.

University at Albany helped me understand who I want to be and what impact I want to make on the world and future generation. I have learned so much from my experiences here at UA and remain grateful to be able to say I go to school here and have launched my career as a result of getting my education here. Go Great Danes!

Being from University at Albany has been a beautiful experience. The diverse population on campus. I believe the atmosphere and drive of students to be successful was an experience. I say I disliked the education piece the most being as though the majority of what I learned wasn’t that applicable to the real world. Thank you for the opportunity.