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1276 Gilbreath Dr, Johnson City, TN 37614

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REVIEWS OF East Tennessee State University IN Tennessee

Theresea Davis

My daughter goes to this school im a proud an u loved family an friends day yesterday

Edward R Gilley, Sr

The school staff (administration & support personnel ) have been very helpful and supportive in answer the various questions the me and my family had upon our very first visit to ETSU. The staff and all personnel we came in contact with were both very helpful and professional in their dealings with us. Thanks again !

Harlan Hilton

Pocket1345

Touseef Syed

Great location.

Allie Edwards

Kirsten Noelle

Etta James

dsd8g1

Graduated two years ago. Had a great time their. I learnt alot.

Riggs Group Ltd.

What a fine university! From Kentucky, we went with our high school fastpitch softball team to play a tournament in a nearby park. About 300 high school girls were there that weekend. It was odd no softball team coaches/personnel thought of promoting their program there. The academic program and campus just seem outstanding and my daughter has put this on her prospect list just from this softball visit. She would be one of their best outfielders if she chose this college! But they need to get on the ball no pun intended.

Daxa Patel

Marcus Moore

Excellent school and great location

Steven Hall

Transferred from Northeast State Community College in 2013 with a degree in speech. Walked out of ETSU 2 years later with a math degree. You really choose your own level of involvement at this school. Staff is always helpful, teachers are amazing, and there is always something to do on campus. Definitely worth what they ask to go there.

Q2002

Mark Harr

This place is an absolute train wreck. I came to ETSU over UTK due to finnances. I had one teacher lose a combined total of 64 of the classes papers and it was the "students fault". This university attempts to be a large school in a small school atmosphere, if it wasn't for my friends mom who works at the university I would have been in the dark about 95% of the things that happened here. The only positive thing I have to say about it is it's dirt cheap and you should practically get paid to come here, but the negatives definitely out-weigh the positives. DO NOT ATTEND.

James Boyle

Ben Lane

Sam Smith

If you have another option, take it and run. Everything at this school is a thousand times more complicated than it should be. The administration often seems unorganized and it's a pain to get anything done. I was told by a faculty member that ETSU is first and foremost a business. You may get an education along the way, but their primary concern seems to revolve around money first, and students second. I feel like they bring students in, and right after they cash the check, they bail on them. Revitalizing their failed football program is more important than supporting students academic endeavors. While they work to build a brand new football stadium, some of the academic buildings are in need of serious upgrades. Simply getting registered for classes is an absolute headache. Financial aid is a mess and often gives conflicting information dependent upon who you speak with. Parking is a nightmare. When you're first accepted here, you're required to pay for and attend a useless orientation session, which is essentially a glorified pep rally. Several professors (not all) seem as though they don't have the time to be bothered by students. Some are only there so that they can get research funding while treating students like little more than a burden that they are forced to deal with. Online classes cost more for some reason, even though you take those courses from home. Also, notice that only one recent review on here has been replied to - and that was over a year ago. They don't seem to care what anyone thinks. There are some classes that will automatically fail students for the entire course if they submit late work for any reason at all. There are instructors that will encourage students to drop out. Their graduation rate is less than half, and yet services to support academics are severely underfunded or altogether lacking. Students are nothing more than a number to ETSU.

Anna Smitley

I loved my experience here. I’m headed back this spring to start another degree program here.

shane's gaming

carrieandjohnray

Bill Brown

Robert Diatikar

Awesome school and great education! Made lots of friends and feel at home every time I go back.

richard seun

Jude Frank

hmmm... i'm confused. thought of coming around here, but the reviews are negative. What is the acceptance ratings of the school in the country and beyond? whats their strength and viability in research? How far have they gone in affecting their immediate community?? oh... i"m being inquisitive now.

Lisa M

Very diverse (Not just race), students studying to be doctors to folk musicians. Both my students graduated in 4 hrs/Mathematics major and honors graduate business Very nice campus, most affordable university in TN, add Hope Scholarships and good parental support and it's doable Would recommend you take a look don't just disregard because it's in "the hills". Solid education money well spent Football is coming soon Off campus housing really nice near baseball field

Jerry Deyton

Robert Espinosa

Beautiful campus. Friendly people.

Dustin Roe

The school is a complete joke. I've have had maybe 2 good professors, the rest, don't care one bit, The advisors are awful, administration sucks. Parking is horrid. I'm beyond excited to transfer away from here. DO NOT ATTEND ETSU.

Louise Zangara

Great campus, love the updates to Digital Media Center

Ryan Nivens

A great place to be.

Sophia Jungenberg

Bad location (far from international airport and big cities) and town itself doesn't have much to do. The nightlife is fun, since it's basically a party town/university. I had mostly good professors - some didn't seem to care and/or didn't put in much effort, but at the end of the day, it's your education, not theirs. The campus is pretty but can be very congested (cramped). Library is gorgeous and the food-eating area is pretty good. Police in Johnson City are absolutely awful and have no chill. The nature is really pretty, as you're situated directly in the mountains. Exams aren't too bad, some are even online. The lecture halls can be as big as 200 students and as small as 10 - all depends on the class. Frats and sororities are pretty prominent. Diversity is fair - race and internationally, but the international students tend to clump together and I didn't see many people make the effort to integrate themselves. There are a fair amount of school events (some football games), the parties are fun, and the studying isn't too extreme, although it depends on your major. Keep in mind, some classes don't count attendance at all, so skipping class is fine. Just be wary of doing it too often!

Easton N

The university is alright. Students are extremely friendly and helpful! Instructors are hit-or-miss, but most are really good. Parking, however, is not so good. Too much faculty parkings! Students have a really hard time finding parkings around the campus. The financial aid department is horrible! Emailing the financial aid office is almost useless because students can’t turn in their important paperwork’s through emails. Shouldn’t the school do something to ensure the security of school emails?? Being a commuter school, many students can’t come to the Financial Aid office in-person.

Ramona Wright

It Pay To Learn

On this date 11/8/2016. Please and Please do not attend this University. This University is total mess. Heed to the reviews of people that gave 1 star. This is a University that i see the person in charge of Academic Transcript denied of not receiving your Transcript when mailed in. There are so many issue that i can't just give all the full details in here, but i've share with friends to avoid going to this University. Please look for another school that's well better than this crap called University. I have contribute as a sign of warning not to attend this University. You will regret from the day 1 you apply for admission at this University.

Sheree w

Kara Aikya

This review is for ETSU speech and hearing. I can not in good conscience make a recommendation for ETSU speech and hearing clinic. The Department staff was rude and insensitive to my request for my son to not be observed by students. I made this request clear in the completed packet I filled out and returned to them. Instead of the clinical manager calling me and discussing my concerns or even offering other options. She had the secretary call me and deny services since I did not agree for him to be observed by students and that I must agree to the terms in the packet, since they are a teaching facility. When I called the clinical manager the following day instead of discussing with me my concerns about my son being observed or offering options she quoted the message given by the secretary. Furthermore, she stated since they were a teaching facility they could not honor my request for my son to not be observed by students.When I lodged a complaint, because I was concerned that my patient rights were being violated, I was referred to Legal counsel who asserted that ETSU speech and hearing did not deny services to my son and they were in the legal right not to offer services unless I agreed for my son to be observed by students. I am uncertain as to what their definition is of "denial of services is." I was told blatantly that if I did not agree for my son to be observed by students they would not see him. That sounds like a denial of services to me. In conclusion, I find the staff at ETSU department of speech and hearing to be insensitive to patient needs and lack any ethical center for caring for their potential patients. They care more about the teaching component of their program than patient rights or concerns.

Working Woman

Great University, beautiful campus!

ROHAN RANJAN WALIYA

Nice

Dung Bui

Ryan Alan

Very friendly people

Larry Carter

Terrible experience for our family with the admissions department. Always loosing paperwork and every time my wife contaced them they were always saying something else was needed though my wife previously provided it. People don't have time to keep making trips to your campus because of your lack of organization. There was one guy there who seemed to know what was going on. I doubt our girls will return after this semester. We will be looking into other options.

james wilson

you get what you work for and be smart do you own planning do not make some councilor pick you classes - you will not be happy with that

Derek Davenport

Beat map app. Going....

Renee Myers

Top notch University!

Nicole G

Jordan Oliver

I graduated from ETSU in December of 2015. I thoroughly enjoyed my time at this school. I can only account for the Computer Science department as that is what my degree is through, but I would advise any one considering a CS degree to seriously consider ETSU. Through my years there were professors that I did not feel went out of their way to help, but that you will find anywhere. The vast majority of the time I had great professors who legitimately cared and would do anything to help, I even had a few that would keep in touch after the semester. My advice is to get through your Gen Ed work. No one enjoys Gen Ed, and find the thing you love to do then stick with it. Once you get into your major all the professors are considerably more helpful. They are where they are for a reason. I know a lot of people who have gone to ETSU for a wide variety of majors, and they have all had they same thoughts. All in all I think ETSU is a great school, and can adequately prepare you to get start your career, whatever that may be.

Vladi Avdi

Ever since ETSU started building the new outdoor stadium, which by the way is in the worst location ever, parking has been a total nightmare for those of us who live in the dorms

Jacob Arms

Nichole Beck

Javan Hutchins

Great University! I really enjoyed every second of my time at ETSU. I graduated in December '15 with a degree in Political Science. All of the professors that I had contact with seemed to really care about their students. The campus itself is beautiful and it's not uncommon to see various forms of wildlife on your way to and from classes. I just wish I could of spent more time here. Johnson City is a beautiful area and has quite a bit to offer if you take the time to explore it. I may have graduated but I'll be back to visit the campus and cheer on the Bucs whenever I can.

Stephanie Ball

Bethany Braden

Joshua Wilson

Don’t go here for college. This place is a joke.

Johnny Gismo

Skip this place. It was turmoil with the administration from the very day I got accepted. Full of stuck up professors who carry around this attitude that "they don't pay me enough to do this" and treat most students as undesirables who just waste their time. Not to mention they never email you back. Four year graduation rate is only 20% and 43% graduate within six years. Since they accept a crazy 86% of the people that apply to this school its no wonder they have such a parking problem. Campus and surrounding city are very dull.

Joshua Nelson

Kenneth Bertram

JOF FDS

Barley Woodberry

Ronald Walker

Sherry Levoy

My son graduated from here and had a time. From his money being very late to getting advice it was bad. He told his advisor what he was interested in and was told "great field, sure there are jobs." He graduated last December and is still at Walmart. They told him their job bank helps with jobs and between that and 5 applications a week he hasn't had a single interview. He is going back to Northeast for yet another degree.

Jarrod Alexander

Swing Mann

Tamilia Sherrill

Extremely helpful advisors and professors! I've had a great experience.

Matt Cohen

As a parent you will deal with way to much rhetoric dealing with the financial aid process. You send documents, these loose documents. You give them tax papers one year and the next year that want the exact documents and claim they can't use them again and access them because they are "sensitive". You used them before with all the "sensitive" information. This red tape rhetoric is nothing but a hassle. You talk to one person and get one answer and talk to another and get another answer. We're going to be looking for another school for our daughter.

Kristi Israel

Clifford Ollis

Poor, poor, poor ETSU. I will admit I brought the horrible experience I had here down upon myself having heard the terrible stories about this place in year’s prior but decided to attend anyway dismissing all the haters as just ignorant. This school suffers from an epidemic called little college syndrome. They try to make up for their feelings of inferiority to the good schools which tend to be larger (because their in high demand because of good rep for academics which leads to good jobs) by accepting as many people as they can and then hiring snooty people for professors who promote the old college adage of students just being numbers because they think that's the essence of a good school. WRONG! Someone I know who also went here said "the acceptance rate at ETSU is high because they want to give everyone a chance but only the strong survive." The strong may survive at ETSU but the intelligent go elsewhere. Professional studies have shown that there are schools in the area that are much better quality for your money. I think a lot of their problems have to do with who makes policy around there. A lot of people complain about the administration at this school and how much they mess up. I don’t know why because they sent me a check in the mail for a lot of money for no reason at all. But the sad part was I had to give it back. The bottom line is though the school doesn’t care about your success as much as they care about getting your money (or sometimes their money). You’re on your own after that and sometimes before. Its ran a lot more like a business than a school. A good first step for ETSU to be taking more seriously so they can make even more money is to change their name. A seafaring Buccaneer from some legend that is probably not true who represents a university located in the mountains of Tennessee is the silliest thing I have ever seen. Even the university itself stated on their website they have a hard time explaining why they call themselves Buccaneers. A lot of the good schools that ETSU tries to imitate adopt names representing historical figures from the same area the school is located or represent events that actually happened (i.e. UNC Tar Heels & TN Volunteers). Perhaps ETSU should be the Patriots for the Over Mountain Men from East Tennessee who gathered at Sycamore Shoals during the Rev. War and helped win the Battle of Kings Mountain. But be that as it may I guess someone there just really likes pirates because like pirates ETSU just wants your money. I just hope Captain Jean Paul LeBucque's buried gold from the legend turns up soon on campus for their sake so they can afford to build another garage to finally accommodate all their students. I wont get into much detail about the quality of the education but taking online test with questions that you can Google and find word for word with the right answer just doesn't scream good quality to me. As for the campus and surrounding city itself someone on here mentioned seeing various forms of wildlife on their way to and from classes? I can stay home and watch those same types of squirrels in my backyard. Johnson City is a pretty friendly place though. It is so friendly that I constantly had to turn down strangers who hit me up for rides at the grocery store as nicely as I could by explaining to them what BucShot is.

Ben S

I mean it is a good school, nothing spectacular. I sort of wish I went somewhere else sometimes. Sometimes I'm glad I go here. I've had professors who have changed the way I see the world, opening up doors that I would never have gotten from not coming to ETSU....But I've also had plenty of adjunct professors that have been sub par at best. (Mostly due to under funding certain departments). A lot of people are excited for football, but as it is going up (being paid for by students who wont see its completion) We are seeing a lack of funding to several departments on campus. Our professors aren't paid enough and it tends to show. Personally I went to school to further my education and feel that those goals are taking back seat to a future football team that I will never see. As for student life, there are plenty of student interest groups that offer leadership opportunities and social engagement and for me, that is one of the best things about going to ETSU. The downside, is I would have had that if I had went to ANY UNIVERSITY. Other Universities also have better student centers that are better designed for student activities, ours is quite dated, and the 'improvements' they are making to the culp center are long over due. If you like parties, we've got them! If you are afraid of your sons or daughters being assaulted in their first few years, we have that too, more people have been coming forward in the past few years claiming to being sexually assaulted on or around our campus. In ETSU's defense, this is a problem across the board but the way we are responding to it isn't exactly great either. More could be done to prevent these assaults. We have a good recycling program on campus, that's a plus. But that doesn't really cover the fact that ETSU has the biggest carbon foot print in the area...more could be done to make ETSU Green....A lot more. The dorms are either really nice, or really crappy. This is where you will get your first taste of the world, and its all in how much money you are willing to spend...or go into debt. The affordable ones for men only recently had air conditioning installed, and even the fancy ones are too small and super limiting. I lived on campus in the hopes to stay closer to my classes, but since recently I moved off campus into the tree streets and life is 1000X better. I live a safe bike ride away and life is good. There are also off campus apartments, but those are like dorms without RA's. loud parties all the time, which is fun for some, I just don't want to live in that. ETSU is a place to get a degree, it has things I like, and plenty things I don't. The biggest reason this school is half decent to me is more from my personal engagements with life changing professors and priceless friendships and connections I have made along the way and less so anything ETSU had a major part in. I hope to get my degree in the next year, but beware, ETSU is a 5 year school, with averages around 5-6 year completion rates don't let them lie to you with all this 4 year jargon.

Claude Hardison

Great!!

MILKHA CHAUHAN

beautifully university

Sara

Adminstration is unprofessional and needlessly difficult. Transcript requests are delayed and unorganized. No interdepartmental communication, leaving the student to repeatedly push for needs or requests to every department at nauseum. Imaginary "holds" on accounts that have to be removed several times delaying your ability to move away from their school. This school is like being stuck in a reduntant and frustrating time loop of paperwork and dont complain or their administrative supervisors will claim that its somehow the students fault for their gross incompetence. I advise everyone to steer clear

James K. Roberts

John Woelkers

Utterly totally and completely worthless

Brenda Liz Wilson

Beautiful landscapes. Art and things around to see this place is amazing Jrotc program, Art and many more.

Christopher Sneed

I've never been a student there but I know how it got publicity from lies.They even went so far as to give me a bad name.I'd rather recommend a specialist for my problems.The only idealists I saw protest there over a 4 year period were nothing but crooks.

Larry Morgan

I have used Mike of Maddox Air Duct Cleaning Service twice for two different properties this year. He has simply been outstanding. His professionalism, cleanliness, hard and honest work is something to be commented. I can't imagine anyone offering a better service and Mike! I would give him 15 stars out of 10.

Gregg Eason

Peggy Baxter

Scott Weatherman

Loved my time here. The Geosciences department is awesome as is the Anthropology department.

Loretta Potter

Greg Lumb

Kipp G

Daniel Diaz

Dasha Popova

ghanshyam patel

very bad, horrible experience..

Miranda Goodall

I won't say it was a bad school... but it wasn't good. I attended for a year before deciding to transfer out, only to have them lose my paperwork twice, and at the most inconvenient of times. Guess who lost ALL of their scholarships and had to take a semester off from any kind of education due to the lazy advising and financial aid departments? And it isn't until you're in that you find they don't offer associate's degrees. Or any kind of guarantee that a good chunk their credits will transfer out to schools that aren't associated with them (I guess that's the point, but now I'm thinking of it as more of a 4-year community college than an actual university). As I didn't actually pay for anything but books, I got what I paid for. At least they've updated their website and got a fancy new parking garage.

sami alharbi

Stevie Legend

Love Love

Esmeralda Martin

Brayden Yonts

Tristin Till

I love ETSU! All of my professors have been great, I love the campus, and I love Johnson City in general. Great school in a great town.

Rachel Dobrozsi

Ricardo Tinoco

Eli Russ

Hannah Hughes

Very unorganized and very expensive.

Parth Patel

Cool Expensive but impressive

Darrius Dixon

Poor job in getting field experience placements for their grad students. Advisors and program heads are essentially paid to do nothing.

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