San Jose State University

Pros: Location, Tuition, Faculty
Cons: Parking

I had the very good fortune to live in Silicon Valley from 1991 to 1999. The San Francisco Bay area is truly a delightful community in which to live, work and play!

While living in sunny Sunnyvale, I had the opportunity to work as an adjunct...

Pros: SJSU is a great school, excellent academics, great price!
Cons: The football team plays like a squad of sick nuns

Ahhh, the good old days of undergraduate study. This is my quick and dirty guide to getting into medical school from SJSU (or any other state school in California).

Step One- Major in what you like. Yes, to heck with pre-med, biology, or any...

Pros: Dynamic, cheap eats near campus, some quality instructors/instruction
Cons: Don't-give-a-damn administrators, dreary campus, no student "life"

From Personal Experience

I've attended this university for over five years, and I have a blase attitude about its academics, culture, student body and administration. Today's college students get enough gruff about being blase, passive,...

Pros: Social Atmosphere, Location, Dining Options, Guaranteed Parking
Cons: Joe West Hall, minor Logistics

As a transfer student from a junior college, I chose to live my first year at San Jose State University in the campus dorms. My parents were moving out of the area, and the prospect of finding a private apartment and roommates in an unfamiliar area did...

Pros: Offers Distance Learning, Accredited, Affordable !
Cons: Not the tradtional University experience.

I am an adjunct Professor at San Jose State University. This review reflects my experiences with San Jose State University from a teaching perspective. Adjust status means I teach on a part time basis. I teach a Distance Learning (Web based) Library ...

Pros: Good Faculty
Cons: Parking, Housing

I am a sophomore student at San Jose State University and my major is computer science. I have been a part of San Jose state university for quite a bit of time now and obviously I liked some things about the university and I didn’t like some things. O ...

Pros: Health Services
Cons: Not anything to brag about

Now that I have moved on to another school, SJSU doesn't look so bad after all. (Boy I've changed my tune.)

AS with all colleges, there are flaws. Its usually up to the student to get the most of the the course. You're usually in a class...

Pros: Great commuter school
Cons: Can't compete with Cal and Stanford

San Jose State University sits right in the thick of downtown San Jose. The campus is not pretty on a windy fall afternoon, and it can get very ugly on a rainy winter morning. But actually, San Jose State has never tried to recruit students based on the...

Pros: Nice People, New Library, New Dorms, Great City
Cons: Perceived as a 'commuter school', large class sizes

Okay, here's the deal; San Jose State is great school if you become part of the community. I cam ...

Pros: A wide variety of majors, a strong athletics department.
Cons: Is experiencing problems with administration and faculty.

Academia is a small world, so the problems San Jose State are experiencing are becoming known. Although State has a good reputation, with a wide variety of majors, administration is making changes that will soon seriously affect the quality of...

Pros: Great clinical training
Cons: T.A.s not trained

I went back to school in 1990 for a master's in Clinical Psychology. I didn't know at the time what I wanted to do with it, but they let me in anyway. I decided after graduation that I wanted to go on for a Ph.D., which I'm almost finished with.
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Pros: Great Band
Cons: AWFUL Director

Well, I just wanted to tell you a little bit about the San Jose State Marching Band. First, the Band Director "Scott" is WAY TOO high strung. He "tries" to run his band like a Drum and Bugle Corps. Granted, most of the Band and...

Pros: occasionally challenging classes
Cons: most of them aren't

After 4 years at San Jose State University, I feel I'm qualified to give it the mediocre review it so much deserves. While it got me a degree (that's surprisingly respected in the Silicon Valley), it failed to impress me with the quality of staff and...

Pros: beautiful campus, in the middle of the Silicon Valley
Cons: poluted air, San Jose is on the dirty side

San Jose State is a beautiful campus with green everywhere you look. The people are friendly, the buildings well-maintained and the setting picturesque. But, when leaving the campus you get into the heart of San Jose. While being a friendly place with...

Pros: Some great professors,,,
Cons: Terrible college presidents and their flawed oversight over decades,,,

I attended SJSU from 1966-1970, got nixon drafted for viet nam ,thank you not very much, and returned to supposedly finish up in 1972-1973. Yes, there were some outstanding profs, and not just in my major, pre-dental. Eakins in history was a fantastic ...