You didn't go to college. You went to the safety school for idiots.

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Shock and Awe

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We usually make fun of Georgia Southern, Middle Georgia Tech, and Georgia Southwestern where I live. Everyone and their retarded cousin gets in there so its an easy target. The only way to be of any note here is to get into a big name college like Harvard, the University of Georgia, Georgia Tech, or a good military college/academy.
 

Korolev

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Never feel ashamed of what university you attend, as long as you honestly tried. And don't look at a poor university as an end point for your education - look upon it as a spring board for a better one.

I was lucky, I got into a good university in Australia right off the bat. Plenty of decent, hardworking, intelligent people I know did not. There's only so many places at these institutions, and they have to turn down people who aren't stupid or untalented by any means.

You can still learn, even if you go to a "less prestigious" institution. Remember, University Rankings aren't based on how well they teach you, but on how much money they have and how much research they generate.

But on Topic - In my state, Queensland, there aren't any universities that are "mocked". All of the main ones do a fairly decent job. We have The University of Queensland, which is mine. We have Griffith, my father's university. We have Bond, which used to be really shady but has built up a very solid reputation over the last few years.

Then there's the Queensland University of Technology - some students at UQ look down at QUT, but I know some of the staff there and they're hard-working and intelligent people. It's a fine university, depending on what you want to learn. It has a fairly good IT and engineering faculty, but I have heard its biological sciences capabilities are a bit behind the rest.

James Cook University is one that I have heard decent things about, but I haven't really paid much attention to.

The only ones which are a bit questionable are the very recent ones: "University of the Sunshine Coast" and the "University of Southern Queensland". I haven't heard much about these universities. I don't know if they're any good or not.

But again, no one deserves mockery for attending these universities, provided that they are genuinely interested in their education and their passion in life. UQ is probably "the best" university in Queensland, but if you're not interested in Medicine or Biological Sciences or Law, then attending UQ isn't going to give you an advantage over any other university. QUT, Griffith and Bond can train excellent engineers, IT experts and architects.

You don't have to attend "the best" university in order to get a damn good education. Try to attend the best university that can get you want you want out of life for the best price.
 

Tacticity

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Jun 1, 2011
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In Connecticut, the hierarchy usually goes like this:

Yale/Harvard/other Ivy Leagues (since they're so close-by)
UConn
CCSU/SCSU
Tunxis Community College

Obviously, it reflects less on a potential quality of education at the school and more on exclusivity. The Ivy Leagues are prestigious, sure, and a lot of people (like people in my high school) treat UConn like a safety school... which isn't one. Tunxis is ragged on a lot (for example if you do bad on a test, a joke for people is to say "Your teacher's going to staple an application to Tunxis with that!"). Honestly I don't know much about CCSU or SCSU, just that generally people treat it like it's a "lesser" school.
 

Call Me Jose

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I graduated from Florida Atlantic University, a state college which has a clean record. Or had a clean record till this girl went crazy
http://youtu.be/wbmUilQm58o
Sorry I didn't embed it :)
 

Angie7F

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In Japan we call them F rank universities.
If I were a parent and my kids could only get into a F rank, i would suggest them to go to a school that teaches them to get a hair dressed license or become a nurse for old people.
I think it gives a better chance at life than it is to just waste 2 to 4 years in a school that wont even get your resume past the initial screening for a interview.
 

Fishcactus

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Here in little old New Zealand there is nowhere near the amount of choice for higher education.

You have the big universities in each major city, Auckland University probably being the biggest/best, then all the polytechs and unitechs, then the smaller specialist/private places.

The only place i've heard being mocking is AUT University. The "AUT" part stands for Auckland University of Technology...University.

They really are a proper university you guys! They have "university" twice in their name!
It's just kinda cute how earnest and redundant it sounds.