SUNY at Binghamton Top Questions

The course selection here stinks. Yes we have a lot of courses but it still feels like there arent very many interesting ones. I wish that the university added a few more subject departments. The few interesting classes that exist, are actually very interesting. The professors are great for those classes and it is also hard to get into them as a freshman. All discussion courses here are taught but grad student TAs however i liked all the TAs i;ve had so far. Some of them i've liked even more than the professor and found i understood the class more after discussion with them.

Yes, most professors will take the time to learn your name. My favorite class was an english class I took called Evolution in Literature and Cinema. It was taught with two teachers. It was the first class of its kind in the United States. It was awesome. The teachers were great, and they applied evolution to studying differnt aspects of literature and cinema. We watch awesome movies, too. It was very unique. Yes the students are competitive. They want to do well. It's not competition against one another, its more trying to improve yourself. People have study groups a lot, too.

Binghamton students are made up of about two groups - those who got into an ivy-league school but couldn't afford it, and those who came here because it was the best school they got into. You have your overachievers but there are plenty of kids who procrastinate like it's their job, but cram everything into the last minute.

professors generally dont know your name unless you talk to them quite often my favorite class so far has been anthropology

Class sizes at Binghamton are very small. Even for Freshman classes they usually adverage between 20-40 students. Unless you take big lectures, you are likely to be in small discussion classes which means that your teacher will know you name and get to know you personally. The students that go here are hard workers and the class averages are generally high, so don't count on curves. Being a Human Development major I'm in a major that's is greatly changing. The HDEV classes are small and requirements are changing so definitely keep ontop of what your major requirements are.

Some professors know my name. My favorite class is Philosophy of Law. My least favorite is Constitutional Law. Students study every other night during the week. Class participation is definitely common. We do have intellectual conversations. Students are definitely competitive. The most unique class I've taken is Coaching Basketball. I am a philosophy/english double major.

The classes vary from 15 to 250+ students. My favorite class was an Environmental English class. The professor was very knowledgable and enthusiastic about the suject. Student do have a lot of intellectual conversation outside of class, they may be jokingly, but theyre still pretty smart. The most unique class I've taken is a Forensic Science class. It's interesting. Sometimes I go to office hours. I find the History TA's to be particularly unhelpful. One would not talk to me, even if i went to her office hours, she just stared at me. It was odd. Another one was not fluent in English which made 90{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} of the class uncomprehendable.

Very impersonal Very competitive Certain professors and departments are good

professors are cool if you look them up beforehand on ratemyprofessors.com to see if they are cool, students are not exactly the brightest people and yet they take pride in being smart

Only a few professors know my name. My favorite class is a humor studies class, where we present our opinions after viewing a media of humor. The teacher is great and hilarious. He memorized over 200 students names after just 1 weekend, so everyone feels close to him. My least favorite class was a geology class I had to take to fufill one of my general requirements. I don't enjoy science much. Students study often. Everyone knows that to pass any class, you'll need to read over the material for exams and papers. So students are putting in at the very least 5 hours a week in studying. Class participation is common and it sparks other people to raise points and add to discussions. Students do have intellecutal conversations outside of class, whether it be about class material, or politics, or student groups and their goals. It's normal to see everyday in conversation. There are competitive students who can make the class a bit more challenging, but it helps push the other students to do well, which is never a bad thing. Not all students are competitive though. Most unique class I've taken was creative writing. It had me explore different emotions and thoughts in my mind and helped put it into writing. The teacher was a little wacky, but all the more fun because of it. We shared and read our writing aloud and a lot of students had some interesting topics and styles. I'm an English major and it's mostly reading and writing. It can get a little overwhelming at times, but you get used to it. It's a great major, because you can explore all these different and interesting classes that help you fufill the major. I spend little time with professors outside of class, it's something I need to work on, but a lot of other people do it. The academic requirements are standard. Not too much to complain about. I think it's about the same for every SUNY school. Education here is geared toward learning for it's own sake. Some majors are more geared toward the job, but for the most part is all just learning.

professors didn't know my name until the last class when I handed in my final, simply because i didnt feel like voicing my opinion on every subject matter. basically, i felt this school was a joke.

Class sizes can be very big or small and so the average size class the school puts in pamphlets isn't actually the size most classes are, but the average as some have 4 students and others have 200. English classes are often smaller discussions in classrooms with regular desks and 20-40 students. Intro science/math courses can be terrible. Usually in the lecture hall with 100+ students and TA for discussions and lab times. CAPA is an on-line assignment that must be done in order to enter labs each week, but the catch is that the professor normally hasn't gone over the material yet and quizzes give in discussion by TAs don't match what is being learned in class. You must see a tutor! And you will cry often unless you are a genius or have some previous knowledge on the subject. These courses are hard to weed out students and often chem is a ridiculous prerequisite. And many science TAs do not speak good English and are here to simply do research and not teach. But you will meet amazing professors in all majors, especially in the upper levels. Most majors do give students individual attention, but don't go into a science field...psych, chem, nursing, engineering, envi, unless you are prepared to do a lot of hard work and fight to be on top as a freshman.

I think this will sound the same for any university, but there are some great classes and some crappy ones. In general, the school is focused around sciences, but there's just as much there for history, English, ect. majors. I started off as a science student and ended up following a different major without a problem. However, some subjects need work. Studio arts classes are near impossible to get into unless you're coming into the university with a bunch of credits (Which will allow you to register earlier)

Students are pretty competitive here. And Binghamton offers a lot of classes. Students don't really have any intellectual conversations outside of class, which is sad. but all the professors have office hours, and they're ready to help you out.

THere are really competitive students, and totally un competitive students, it depends. The foreign ones and the engineering students are most competitive, and human development kids are notoriously lazy. It varies so much, some classes involve tons of studying, and some involve just showing up. I took a class called Anthropology of Sex and Sexuality which was interesting. THere are so many electives, I recommend taking cool ones b/c i wish i had taken more. They definitely open up new doors. I am in the nursing school, and it prepares you very well, despite being extremely disorganized once you hit junior year. I spend time with my professors outside of class every now and then, but only the ones I've known and had for years (in nursing.) Most people dont thought. The education here helps you get a job and makes you very well rounded. I think I got a great education here.

Binghamton is a highly competitive academic institution. Normally people think that this would lead to student rivalry, however this is absolutely untrue. Students at Binghamton are very helpful to one another. Students will often form study groups and occasionally discuss classroom material outside the classroom. Professors know your name, only if you make the effort to get to know them. Class participation is important for students to engage in, in order to stand out as a good student in the eyes of professors. Binghamton has set requirements that students must complete in order to graduate. These requirements allow students to broaden their level of education by being exposed to subjects outside of their majors. Binghamton students are becoming more high regarded by professional schools, post graduation. You'll get the students who stay up all night at the library and the ones who prefer to study for less time in their dorm rooms, pretty much standard for any college.

The professors here are amazing. They really get to know the students and they love teaching. They're also really availably and totally open to helping the students in any way they can, even outside the classrooms. The English department is pretty heavy on theory classes. Although, there is one class specifically dedicated to English theory it will show up in almost all of your other English classes as well. The professor are really great at making your required classes interesting for you. The English program is nice because it is really geared towards class participation even in large lectures. It is nice because it makes classes more interesting.

Most of my professors know my name except for the professors that teach in Lecture hall, there about 300 + students in those classes. My favorite class has been Human Development 380t which dealt with society and democracy. My professor was an anarchist and he has been my favorite professor so far, he difinitely taught me things that I will never learn anywhere else. My favorite documentary shown in that class is "Revloution will not be televised. " Class paticipation is very common in all the classes but in lecutre hall classes it is more difficult to participate but students still do it.

Students study alot, the library is always packed. As a transfer student i can easily say that Binghamton is more challenging than most expect it to be. There is intellectual conversation outside the class and events where you can interact with peers and share opinions.

Binghamton is best known for its academics, and we are known as the "Ivy of the SUNY's" and recognized by Greene's Guide as one of the official "Public Ivies." Our faculty is world-renowned - I had one professor that made statements to Congress on campaign finance reform, and one that gets phone calls from the World Bank to help decide whether to issue a loan. Class participation is the most important part of every class, and professors are always willing to help outside of class if you need it. The educational requirements are planned in such a way that no matter what major you choose, you'll leave as a well rounded student.