Clarkson university

I've had an unforgettable time as an exchange student back in 2010/11. Thanks!

For a University that actually teaches military classes, it's not Veteran friendly at all. No liason to help with the annoying GI Bill paperwork. It's very obvious that Admissions and the people dealing with tuition, hardly ever deal with Veterans. Not really sure why Clarkson is considered a Veteran friendly school.

Degree Received: B.A. Mechanical Engineering with conc. in Advanced Manufacturing Engineering 21

Overview: Unfortunately, the college seems more concerned about the hockey team and facilities than providing a top-notch education and quality laboratories. I transferred into Clarkson expecting big things but was very disappointed overall, especially considering the price to attend. Shouldn t a top engineering school have top laboratories and classes for students? They had the money for new landscaping and a costly hockey arena revamp but apparently not the mechanical engineering lab equipment that is 30+ years old, inaccurate, and nearly inoperable. See my photos for the condition one of the CAMP Center computer labs. It was really fun trying to run ANSYS sims on the school computers while crossing my fingers, hoping computer would not crash the program due to limited processing power.

Education: Some really great professors like Kevin Fite but some horrific (who will remained unnamed). They should really put more emphasis industry applicable education or examples to supplement the theoretics. For example, it s hard to understand or care about solving partial differential equations when we never see them in a context related to anything industry related or tangible. Even showing physical models in fluid mechanics etc. that were related to real-world use, in class would have been great. Understandably, the curriculum is limited in its scope due to compliance with ABET Accreditation. For example, we received very little education on GD&T which is HUGEEE for industrial/design related engineering and subsequent manufacture. Luckily, they have a decent machine, welding, and fabrication shop that you can access as an extracurricular which I loved! I took the MT classes which covered intro to manual endmill, lathe, mig, stick, and tig welding, Mastercam, and CNC endmill and lathe.

Social Environment: Though a limited selection, they have mostly great professors! The students are down to earth and are easy to work with. Plenty of opportunity for clubs, SPEED Teams, ROTC and Greek life. I was in the scuba club, flight club, rocketry club etc. which were all great.

Surrounding Area: Unfortunately, the town has died off in the last 10-15 years. Many vacant store fronts on main street which is sad to see. The weather is also brutal considering it is 30-40 minutes from Canada.

Cost/Value: Absurd. The value and education provided relative to the cost made my time at Clarkson simply not worth the money.

Today is the time to leave Clarkson. I had my wonderful two years in Clarkson and Potsdam. My research career will continue in NJ, but I will not forget this place along with the local people I have made friends with. I will be back some day in the future. Ciao!

Great place out back to take your kids sledding tubing snowboarding

I love CLARKSON UNIVERSITY. Clarkson university god made it his own hands! Mind-blowing it's Nature of Beauty.

My daughter is a senior at CU. I cannot say enough good things about this fantastic school and community.

It's a beautiful campus you wouldn't believe almost 4000 people go to college there i only saw 4 people in a hour of walking around