University of Alabama-Huntsville

Pros: Reasonable price, good student-instructor ratio, low cost of living, small classes, corporate sponsors, great programs
Cons: somewhat far from home for some students

I first became aware of the University of Alabama-Huntsville when my son went there for an interview as a prospective student, on spring break his Senior year in high school. It was not a school that I had any experience with, good or bad. During the...

Pros: Small classes, good teachers, nationally recognized in some programs, cost
Cons: Not much social life

The University of Alabama is recognized by many in the south as being one of the most challenging colleges around…. Especially in the field of engineering. Having gone to both undergraduate and graduate school there, I can tell you it is the truth. Why...

Pros: Generally a good school
Cons: Horrible internet connection in the dorms; Help Desk lies about it

The other reviews are sufficient to give you an idea of UAH's qualities. The single drawback to the school is that the entire school essentially has two cable modems' worth of bandwidth for the internet connection (10 megabits). As a result, the internet can often be dreadfully slow--that is, if you are able to get online at all.

If you live in housing, you are also subject to the http://www.cisco.com/go/urt, which constantly crashes and loses connection due to the poorly configured servers. Before you are allowed that privilege, however, you are required to run a program on your PC. This program allegedly checks your computer for spyware and viruses, but in the process it does other things, such as installing registry keys, with no explanation.

Oh, and if you are running Linux, you can forget about getting online altogether; the Cisco URT is incompatible with all versions of Linux except Red Hat and SUSE. Mac users, however, get to bypass the logon client altogether.