Oklahoma State University - Main Campus Reviews

"I am only in my first year of graduate school but I think my graduate program has been amazing so far. The faculty and staff are all so approachable, friendly and incredibly helpful in any way possible. The program is accredited by CACREP who came and did a site visit to renew our accreditation a few weeks ago and we got great positive feedback about the program. I feel incredibly passionate about my education and I am extremely lucky to be attending such a great program that is also accredited because I know they are preparing me with the best education possible."

"The faculty at OSU are fantastic! They care and most of the time they are working on some sort of research which warrants the need for help. They hire students to conduct research which helps them in the job market down the road. As far as cons I would say that the Graduate college is small in engineering and in need of more publicity. Also the scholarships offered are nil to scant."

"For anyone who is interested in Wildlife and Environmental studies, this is the perfect school. I suggest going after you already finished your basics at a community college. It is much more inexpensive that way and if you are going to spend that much money, it needs to be because you are doing something you love getting up early every morning to do."

"In my graduate program, In our department as far as I now, there are wide research works going on, in many complex areas of study like optoelectronics, ThZ technologies, mixed signal VLSI, computer Architecture, Robotics, semiconductors processing, control systems, artificial intelligence, quantum computing etc. Each work has excellent professors leading the research teams.There will be meetings every week to maintain steady approach towards goals. The meetings which I attend are interesting, as each week a student comes up with the new paper or topic and explain about it. This way I feel updated to some extent. Coming to course work, it is challenging, but flexible enough to work more on projects that are part of course work and they make great contribution to our learning. When it cones to exams, it purely depends on professor how and when to organize them. All the exams that I took here,I think they really measure the content we learnt in the course. We had enough time to prepare for it before each exam. Sometimes it's worst scenario that happens now and then during the finals week, that student will end up preparing for 3 exams at the same time as they will be scheduled on same day with 30 mins gap or even less. One major isuue I found myself as a drawback in the program, is funding. From our batch onwards they made few changes, which are not student friendly. The student with 0.25 FTE as a teaching assistant/research assistant or Graduate assistant will be given only stipend for the number hours he works, he will not be given out-state fee waive. He will be given those benefits only if he can get 0.50 FTE . This leaves very less students to get the fruit of assistanships. I don't know why they made these changes, but I think it was good before these changes. I am interested to work on Graphene- nanotechnology and one important issue is there is no professor working on Nanoelectronics area. There are few working on nano-optics kind of things. Now, I am working with a gentle professor, who encouraged me to work on it, giving advices time to time , answering my questions in very friendly manner. so far it's good, but the gap that no professor is working exactly on this area, still remains. Apart from few issues that I had and faced, this program is way ahead of many others. It made me like this place, university. I learnt many new things, which I didn't even think I can. Great learning experience, worth spending my valuable time here in this program. It is not intentional, that if I accidentally talked about program, something that hurts someone. It is purely for the genuine review. Thank you"

"Highly competitive, successful program, high employment rate"

"Excellent program with excellent faculty. Workload is intense, but faculty is very supportive. There is a good diversity of interests represented as well. Physical and GIscience are well represented in a primarily cultural program."

"OSU is a great school. The SMSC graduate program is very small, so we all get lots of attention."

"It is competitive and a respected program. The use of technology is valued though behind in updates."

"OSU is a friendly and supportive campus. The Graduate College is amazing. Stillwater as a town is fun and inviting but, its about an hour away from any major airport. The faculty are helpful and want students to succeed. Go to OSU! It's amazing!"

"Students are encouraged to take part in research projects with professors and other students. Highly research-focused institution gives Oklahoma a great quality grad offering."

"As a non-traditional student, I so appreciate that OSU-Tulsa is an option as travelling to Stillwater just is not an option. OSU-Tulsa is working hard with its existing TESL students as it phases out this program at the Tulsa location. I hope I will be able to minimize travel to Stillwater. Appreciate the quality of the graduate program and faculty! They have been really great to work with so far."

"OSU really has a great graduate program in the biological sciences."

"I feel like the pros to my program are the amazing supervisors and professors. They are always available to answer questions and provide support for each of us. Every program is going to have cons depending on which student you speak to. Personally, I really enjoyed my first semester of the program."

"Pros: All classes covered for graduate students Close knit program Down to earth faculty Very social program Very supportive faculty Cheap living Cons: Tiny town No Target"

"One of the best graduate programs at this school! Professors encourage student research and collaboration; this leads to many student publications prior to dissertation."

"Very competitive program with regards to research and publishing current science."

"While it is really great to be offered the opportunity to study Creative Writing at the graduate level, Oklahoma State University doesn't give the students enough financial support to offset the general dismal city of Stillwater, Oklahoma. Out of the creative writing faculty, there is only one full-time fiction writer (and she hasn't published a book in nearly a decade). I moved here with my wife with the belief that the academic fees each semester would be around $600, only to be hit with a $800 bill that will return every four months. The other students in the program are wonderful, but I could find a good community of writers virtually anywhere in the country."

"Love the program, gotten more than what I expected so far."

"Oklahoma State has a rich tradition in a superior education program and is world renowned for my field of study. Their dedication to expanding their agriculture department and keeping their animal production units functional is what really drew me and kept me at this school. The faculty here is diverse and can serve you in your graduate career well. With expanding a department comes the struggle of maintaining funding and expanding faculty. In the next several years OSU will need to increase their faculty presence to keep themselves the leaders in Animal Science."