Queens College

good facilities and better education than other cuny schools.

The education isn't terrible, if you find the right professors and majors. Apply to Macaulay and Queens Honors if you have the grades. The campus is sort of run-down, but endearing. No decent food to speak of. Social life is pretty dismal for a college of its size.

Cheap way to get a good education. We need more colleges like this around the country. Cus college is crazy expensive.

I graduated from QC in 2013, but am a bit ambivalent about the school even after 3 years for a few reasons: as a transfer Biology student who didn't meet the ridiculous transfer requirements, I was forced to re-take various classes I had no desire or need to. Their goal was to make a well rounded adult capable of communicating in various fields, but as a Biology undergrad, working 50 hours a week, and desperate to graduate, I had NO NEED to learn poetry, classical music or art. By forcing me to take dozens of useless credits in outside fields, that ended up costing me a lot of money, I was unable to take classes I ACTUALLY WANTED AND NEEDED for furthering my career such as advanced statistics, programming, etc. I took no pleasure in those courses, so what was the point of taking them? But the school is cheaper than most and offers a good deal. Another major complaint is about the Biology department itself: signing up for classes back in those days required one to be in front of the department at the earliest time possible when registration began since online signup wasn't possible, and later on when it became a reality, the system for transfer students still didn't recognize you had met pre-reqs forcing you to travel into the department. If you weren't there early in the morning in a line, most likely you wouldn't be able to sign up for a class you needed for graduation, making it impossible to graduate in time! The secretaries WEREN'T NICE, and the actual head of the department is to this very day the most socially awkward and insensitive person I have met in higher education. In fact, rudeness and exasperation was a constant part of the campus life. If it depended on faculty alone (all departments), QC would deserve 5 stars. The classes were definitely tough, but the professors (barring a few) were for the most part spectacular with well designed and interesting courses. In the Bio department: Take anything by Baker, Waldman (excellent), Boissinot (hard to understand), Lahti (excellent) and Vesanen (careful of Vesanen! - he's known as the toughest professor at QC teaching Anatomy and Physiology and Immunology - rumored as the toughest courses in the entire school; he's also not very understanding of students); stay clear of these if you can - Melendez, Savage-Dunn, Fath, (mostly because they simply present the material in the most boring way possible) Ma (rude, not helpful, uninterested, awkward, now the head of the department) and Zakeri (She does good research and I thought her class was unbelievably interesting BUT thoroughly disorganized; I refused to even waste my time talking to her due to her rudeness and lack of respect for students who raised valid points during her lecture. She was the only professor at QC without a working syllabus. That is BIG NO in the teacher/student contract.)

the time through Queens College is an awesome time, has annual festival with the famous camel visit, Huge library, huge campus, nice food options, and good views of the City on a sunny day. challenging classes but worth it if you study for them, Amazing campus considering it's location. parking could be a bit better especially the fact that parking spots in Queens are like unicorns, and to park inside you need to win a lottery. If you are doing pre-med in this college you will not have an easy time and if you are, you are probably not passing your classes. too much to talk about but too little space just ask any senior that really went through the College experience and hear the story.