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I'm about to graduate, and overall I have very mix...

I'm about to graduate, and overall I have very mixed feelings. The pricing is great and most of my teachers were pretty exceptional as well. The overall experience was good.
But there are some major problems, BYUI isn't about a great education. It's about pushing students through as quickly as possible. Which is why they pressure faculty to come in at 120 credits for majors that should be 140-160. Teachers and faculty try to maintain the educational integrity so instead of cutting courses they simply cut the number of credits each course is worth. Subsequently what is 14 credits at BYUI would often be more like 18-20 credits elsewhere.
You might think, well than I'll just take 10 credits, which would usually be equivalent to 14 elsewhere. The problem is that than you don't get the full student aid or scholarship funds because you are less than 14 credits.
The end result is that you are essentially taking 18-20 credits and drowning in coursework all semester. BYUI's constant desire to compete with other academic greats often leaves it's student's with a great deal of frustration and depleted self esteem because at any reasonable state school they would be in the top percentages of their class.
The effect is that lots of students get lower GPA's than they deserve for a school that doesn't have a reputation to back it up. No one looks at this school and thinks, oh they got a 3.2 but it's BYUI so that's amazing. It might act like Harvard, but no one outside of Rexburg cares about it like Harvard. If I were able to do it over again, I would never attend this university.
There is so much more, but these are a couple of highlights.

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