University of Maryland, Baltimore County Rankings Based on Salary

I am seeing many reviews complaining about the "lack of party scene." If you want a continuation of high school partying whilst getting by with mediocre grades, there's UMD, Townson, Sailsbury, and Frostburg. UMBC is not the place if your main reason for going to college is to RP American Pie Beta House. Pros: The academics for language majors are truly challenging. Especially the translation courses. Upper level courses are taught in the language, and faculty reach out to students all year round with opportunities... Read More to practice and meet exchange students. There is also a paid Fall&Spring internship for students pursuing Japanese to help teach English at a Japanese high-school. Furthermore, the Japanese faculty keep up to date with new material and make it a point to change the textbook about every 4 years. My professor went to Japan summer 2019 and met with the publishers of a textbook that was on Japanese tv due to it's effectiveness. We currently use this new textbook published in 2017. What I love about this textbook is it teaches speaking strategies and kanji recognition. So even if I forget the kanji when writing, I can remember when reading and typing papers. As a result I can read much more Japanese literature, and my speaking has improved greatly thanks to the strategies. Furthermore all the volunteering opportunities I participated in helped me make connections to practice with native Japanese speakers. The public transportation is pretty good. I live in Howard and can get to campus in an hour via public transport. Cons: The buildings are hella old, and way too many elevators are broken. The food is way way WAY too expensive. Also the lines to get food are always crazy long in the afternoon. On top of that, the food places close way too early. By time I get out of class at 4pm, everything's closed. And the student workers are often really slow which holds the lines up.

I think from the educational aspect this school is fine, they are a small university and this allows students to get ample opportunity to get involved in extracurricular activities. This also allows students to get to know their professors and take an active role in their education. One big negative is that this school does not take sexual assault seriously. There was a case two years ago of sexual assault that the school brushed off which then came out in the newspaper, the school did not handle it properly... Read More and tried to use rebranding as an attempt to bury the story and the underlying problem of sexual assault on this campus.