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Kent state has been a huge waste of time and money. I graduated with a 3.7 in computer science and have landed a position in the field, but it was very much due to my own interest and motivation to learn. I practically taught myself while simultaneously doing whatever work kent assigned to me. Kent needs to focus on teaching practical skills instead of doing whatever comes easily to them. I somehow graduated with a BS in Computer Science without a single class ever teaching Git. I never used a single C++ library... Read More outside of the STL for any of my assignments here. We used makefiles for everything and we were never taught any real build systems that are used in practice. As a CS major who was sold a degree that boasted about teaching C++ and software engineering, I was extremely disappointed to learn that my CS4 Software Engineering course would be entirely based on web development under the instruction of Dr. Delozier. The course would touch base on some software engineering, then randomly veer off into some web-dev stuff about the Python module bottle, HTML, CSS, and some Javascript. Since the rest of the university was learning C++, most students were not able to contribute to the project adequately which made it to be just a very negative and bad experience for everyone involved. The instructor does seem to be a good engineer and I'm willing to accept that this could have just been the result of a poor decision when the project for the was selected. TA's. TA's everywhere, teaching courses I paid hundreds or thousands in instructional fees for a professional to teach. Of course, there was no discount applied to these courses for my financial investment. The only discount I received was in the quality of course content. Some TA's did what I would call 'good enough' but still absolutely not what I paid for. This lack of experience in some courses made later courses where I actually had a real professor more difficult due to some TA's simply not being able to get through all the content of previous courses. Of course this became my problem, which I solved by investing my free time to teach myself topics I already paid to be taught. Very frustrating. For my experience at Kent State University, Arvind Bansal was the final blow that drove me to earn my bachelors and take my tuition elsewhere to finish my masters at another college. The best way I can describe this professor is like playing a board game with a child. When the kid starts to lose, they shuffle the board and claim it's within the rules but they've actually just stacked the deck in their favor. I have never in my life had a teacher that wanted to fail their students. Arvind aboslutely wants to fail his students, as if it would somehow validate his credentials? I'm not sure what his reasoning is for this behavior, but he was disrespectful, refused to write any instructions for assignments and only described our term project verbally. Upon asking him for written instructions, he practically refused. The assignments were vague, he offered no guidance or help, his lectures were convoluted and I taught myself everything for this class. His slides were full of errors, which he tried to blame on his PhD students but let's be real here, if your having students write your slides and not checking them, who's really at fault? Write your own slides. The professor also ignores holidays observed by the university and continues with class, despite the rest of the university being off. That wouldn't bother me if his course content was good, but it's awful. He was opinionated to the point where he actually verbally insulted algorithms from the industry standard book 'Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach', and then he redistributed his own algorithms. The algorithms he wrote were so bad that when he read them himself, he often got confused and had to take a second to figure out what he wrote himself. He sent out these algorithms at least 3 times, each time correcting handfuls of errors - and the final version still had errors. The best thing I did in this course was ignore his instruction and algorithms. Once I tuned him out, I did fine and passed with an A. My experience with Arvind sealed the deal. For this university to ignore the reviews of this professor is not acceptable. Look him up on RateMyProfessor.com - He has almost 50 reviews giving him the worst rating possible, and you will notice my complaints above outline exactly what they describe. See for yourself. Any university that allows a professor like this to continue to make the same mistakes year after year simply doesn't care about their student's learning experience. https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=59547

I enjoyed attending Kent State University. I began my undergraduate program at another university, but transferred to Kent because it had a better program. They have a great education program with faculty who are experts in their field. These professors took the time to answer any question we had about the education system and provided us with real-life scenarios to prepare us for becoming teachers. For example, there were several field experience opportunities in nearby schools. We had the chance to work... Read More with students and observe veteran teachers. They also found placements for our student teaching assignments. When we were near the end of our program, they had career fairs and people to help build our resumes. My advisors at Kent were always helpful. They met with me frequently to make sure I was on track and taking the correct classes. One of the benefits of Kent is that it has regional campuses. I was living off campus in a city about 40 minutes from the main campus. I was able to take classes at their Kent-Stark Regional Campus when it was convenient for my schedule. I loved their campus and had a great experience there. Everything is accessible on campus. There are several parking lots and busses to take you to your buildings. It was easy to navigate and has beautiful scenery. Many of the buildings are updated and have plenty of resources for students. Their recreation center was great on both campuses. Overall, I had a wonderful experience at Kent State University. I would recommend this college for any student considering a school in Ohio!