University of Massachusetts - Boston
- Graduate School
- Boston, MA
22 reviews
Graduate Student: What sets my experience to a 4-star rating is my program's commitment to my personal development. The Master of Fine Arts program consists of big-hearted, bold, creative thinkers, both students and professors, and I'm so grateful to have had the opportunity to study with them.
Financial and bureaucratic nonsense, however, did majorly impact my studies. Everyone in graduate school has to tighten their belts. But the administration admitted me with a letter granting "full tuition remission," and some fees as an in-state student, and then two weeks from the start of my first term, I got an $8,000 bill! And it just went from there. There's a lot of denial or abdication of responsibility for this miscommunication, and there are many departments on campus shortchanged because the administrative higher-ups prioritize glitzy parking lots over educational support programs and paying their employees in a timely fashion and to a degree commensurate with their expertise and experience.
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