Kent State University Trumbull Campus

"Kent State University Trumbull is in my opinion the best place to get a quality education at an affordable cost. Smaller class sizes and the best faculty that actually cares about their students success are just a couple of it's many benifits."

"I graduated with my piece of paper, and that's about all the value there is. If you go here just know that its a 4 year credential, nothing more unless you make something of it through self study. Admin, "teachers", are terrible, but its a cheap (relatively) piece of paper that will help you stand out to the admin (H.R.) at bigger firms."

"Their math courses are a joke. You have to come in and do all course work from a computer program while the instructor sits in the back, and only does anything if he catches using a calculator. (For some reason they do not allow them)"

"It's unfortunately a community college in the ghetto misrepresenting itself. I had the crummy experience of Mr. Hazai, his inability to teach and a textbook that does not match the workbook which this incompetent makes absolutely no effort to clarify. It's like being handed all the materials and tools to build a house, being shown a photo of a house, told to lay the concrete foundation and he will be back to grade you tomorrow. He then sits back to watch the struggle and frustration of every person in the room who must hope they can get personalized assistance before they run out of time which was a daily struggle. To say he is incompetent is an insult to incompetent teachers everywhere. After 3 decades he still does not understand what a teaching plan is and how to teach! There was no instruction or proper demonstration. When I understood him 2 minutes in he talked another 15 until he made sure you were confused! This is well known by the other faculty, which some have discretely admitted to, and there are no shortages of other students current and past that share their dismay, frustration and anger with absolutely no reservations about this teacher and this outdated class virtually NO OTHER SCHOOL in the COUNTRY requires for their engineering program. I have over a year into my engineering degree at another college so I know quite well what I am talking about as well as a lot of hands on experience designing and building analog circuits. The other disaster is the new common core math and other computer based classes. Driving 70 minutes one way to do math on a computer that I could be doing at home is an absurd means to justify the cost and salary of a teacher. Not to say these are bad math teachers but the system is experimental and students are suffering. Again, I talked to numerous other students that were extremely unhappy and frustrated with this experimental, sloppy system. When you need clarification of a math process for a problem you are working on and clicked on the E-book, it didn't actually take you to the necessary pages. To use the glossary or index was a tragedy because like the textbook and workbook for the engineering drafting, the assignment titles and categories are not based on the books content tables. Until I mentioned it to the teacher the book did not open to the necessary subject you were working on. When I did, miraculously it started doing this the following week. Asking for help was a problem in itself because the issue was knowing what to ask to begin with. Finally after purchasing the textbook to avoid the strain of reading it on a computer, I realized just how poorly written the textbook was and this is the book the teaching software is written on! Sloppy, jumping around, unorganized and nonsensical structure. If you're going to focus on plotting number lines, or whichever topic, do so systematically as opposed to leaping all over the place, fogging up the students ability to focus and requiring them to turn to a teacher who will need 20 minutes to explain something that should take 2. Once I had enough units for my grant to pay for 90% of the costs, I withdrew and looked to our local community college which is a much larger, nicer school with tried and true methods as opposed to highly experimental in crude beta stages that SHOULD NOT involve charging students. If you want to experiment on people either provide the classes for free or outright PAY people to attend them. This is truly a community college surrounded by ghettos in every direction you drive and unjustly bears the Kent State name. By the time I left I felt like I was at a vocational school for high school students and 30 something year olds wanting a trade certification. Most people are there for literary degrees, business, nursing, police academy etc. Nothing so complex or difficult as engineering. The bottom line is if you're interested in one of their technology degrees DO NOT DO IT. They are not equipped with the staff to teach these fields just the equipment and facilities."

"Many engineering students could have sued this place. We were given the wrong schedule of classes for our major. No one knew until a professor noticed and told us. I took a whole year of classes that didn't even count! The students all met a few times on saturday and we discussed our frustration but nothing became of it. Moral of the story: the "advisors" suck. Everyone I've spoken to says the same. I tell everyone not to go there....you don't get a "full" college experience anyway. There are no dorms so all the kids live with their mommies and still act like they're in high school. The few adults in the classes are looked down on by the kids. If you're close to 30 years old, you're already the oldest in the class usually. Also, when class is over everyone runs out to their car and speeds away. There is slim to none extracurricular activities so finding people to hang out with is damn near impossible. I tell people dont go here...if you are so inclined to go to kent state, go to the main branch."