Does anyone go to University of Texas?

What is Texas Southern University Like?

• im a senior in high school and i plan on attending texas southern university when i graduate so i was just wondering if anyone could tell me what its like to go there and what Houston Texas is like in general. I used to live in lubbock texas but i dont think its goin to be anything like houston lololol!!! tell me what you think please :D thank yall!

• Answer:

  A degree from TSU is better than no degree at all. That being said, it has a really poor reputation. TSU has, for a long time, been run by a small and corrupt clique. http://reporternews.com/news/2008/aug/02/ex-tsu-students-win-suit-against-school/ http://lonestartimes.com/2006/08/01/ex-tsu-president-indicted-for-spending/ If you were white and criticized the school they screamed and said you were racist. If you were black and criticized the school they screamed and called you an Oreo. This meant that for most people it was more trouble than it was worth to go after TSU and try to clean it up and enforce standards, so the place pretty much totally went to pot, academically and financially because nobody was enforcing any standards and there was no accountability. I don' t know about their other programs, ( I would like to think that what was said about the Pharmacy program being good was true) but their law school is pretty much a joke. They admit anyone, fail nobody, and then when their graduates hit the bar exam, they get chewed up and spit out like yesterday's juicy fruit. IT is so bad that the ABA may yank their status as a law school. http://www.bloghouston.net/item/6488 http://colleges.surfwax.com/files/Texas_Southern_University.html The idea is a worthy one...TSU likes to say that by having low admissions standards they give people a chance, who otherwise couldn't get into college. I'm sure that in some cases that is true. In practice though TSU has a reputation of turning out graduates who really didn't belong in college in the first place, and weren't able to do college level work, and (since they went to TSU) never really had to do college level work. I'm sure this is probably an unfair reputation in some, perhaps even many cases...but that's the reputation I've come to associate with TSU since I moved to Houston. It's also in a pretty rough neighborhood, near the U of H main campus.(which isn't in the best neighborhood either). Houston itself is really great. There are resturants, clubs, musuems, lots and lots of things to do. You need a car, and jobs are plentiful right now if you are willing to work. Good luck.