Texas State University Rankings by Salary Score™

I came to Texas State on my GI Bill. I can say that it was one of my greatest regrets. Fist off, the school repeatedly dropped me from courses and then charged me a fine to register during late registration. Other GI Bill students told me the same was happening to them and the VA office at the school confirmed the school does this to get the $100 fines. Since I was unable to register until after all other students, I usually had a half course load. I was unable to afford my rent because of this and worked... Read More nights to cover my bills. I was not able to complete a degree in my allotted time on the GI Bill since I was only allowed to enroll in a class or two each semester. As other people have pointed out, parking is a nightmare. You can't rely on the bus system to be running at any time, so you need a parking pass, but that doesn't mean you will get a parking space. Many classes will fail you for attendance, so there is a real possibility you could not pass a course just because the school oversells the parking passes. I never got to experience anything like school spirit. I really hated my time here. My first year I met a lot of nice people and tried to go to things like tail gate and on campus events, but after that it became miserable. Tail gate was more oriented toward greek life and while many greek students were friendly and cool people, the ones that weren't ruined everything they touched. I believe the school banned most fraternities in the time I was there. But a lot of very bad people unrelated to greek life were also present at this school and I never could figure out why. It just sucked being around awful people. Not that there weren't great people here, they were simply overshadowed by the bad ones. Anything the school is involved in is trash. The recreation center was an unmaintained junk heap. Students were paying for gym memberships rather than attending the free gym on campus. The dining halls would sometimes only serve unhealthy food. I don't want pancakes for three meals a day. Parking enforcement would go to students homes and ticket their vehicles. If you rent a house near campus you could be fined for parking in your drive way that is not the school's property. I had been accepted to Tech, SFA, Sam Houston and Tarleton and I sincerely wish I had gone somewhere else. This school was toxic and I left with nothing but bitterness and resentment.

Definitely not impressed. The enrollment, advising and orientation process was awful. Poor communication and long waits for no reason. Couldn’t get anyone on the phone for 3 hours. When I finally did they couldn’t do anything. Teachers were boring and did seem to have relevant experience for the classes they were teaching. Advisors are late to appointments, not prepared and do not give you the resources you actually need. My third advisor finally helped me and told me about programs that would have been great... Read More to know years ago. Overall very unsatisfactory. I would choose literally any other university.