Framingham State University

Nice outside the building and in a good location but needs a remodel inside. Great security but the practice rooms are windowless and the carpet is gross. The food truck on the corner outside the main entrance is great!

I attended this college for a couple of years. Like always, there are good and bad professors. I’ve experienced both kinds. The library is great. Nice selection of books, a comfortable study area with soft couches and seats. Lots of computers for studying or working on a project. Every class i took was 2 hours long. I don’t know if all classes are of that length, but i find it kinda tiring to sit in class for 2 hours. I need a break halfway. The only thing that i don’t like is that the different buildings which are used for different purposes have their own names after people, or something like that. If it’s your first year here, it’s not very easy to find your way around. Would’ve been better if the buildings were numbered, and had some kind of pattern so that we can easily tell that if say… 2,000’s is in front of me, then 1,000’s is on my left, and 2,000’s is on my right. Know what i mean? Well, overall, it’s a pretty good college.

The only reason I’m giving 2 starts is for the few professors who teach there who were awesome. Everything else has been a total nightmare.
Let me start out with the fact that FSU has a graduation rate of 49%. Boston schools generally have graduation rates of 70−85/90% on average. They hide this fact, and once you ask someone why (and you have proof) they defend that rate with things like «Oh well private schools do not really care if the students pass the classes, they just move them along to keep their grad rates high for business reasons.» Uh huh.
If you are under the age of 30, generally, they will treat you as if all you are us just a paycheck, because you are. They remind you of this by building new, and unneeded new dorm rooms with air conditioners and restaurants, but do not hire new staff when needed. (My replacement physics professor would brag about stealing cars and doing heroin at 16. He would also throw things at us, in an «aim to kill» fashion if we looked at the clock, or in the general area of the clock. Nice job on that Corey check, FSU. This was Physics fall semester, 2010.) If you complained, he would call you a «bitch» to other students.
Also, back to that graduation rate. The average amount of time it takes for you to graduate in this place is 5 years. Im going into my 6^th year and 43^rd class. My problem was that I trusted my adviser and I signed up for the classes that she told me to take. Which were the wrong classes. I went to the dean, the president of academic affairs (who knew me from the physics professor fiasco), the registrar’s office, the dean again… more people from the office of academic affairs… then after 3 years, someone listened: The Massachusetts Board of Higher Education. Yea, it got to that point.
They pride themselves on being an «inexpensive school», but when it takes 5 years to graduate because of whatever, and your adviser just expects you to take additional classes in the summer (I got up to 6 additional classes from different schools) then its actually a huge waste of money and time.
Sure, the campus is «pretty» but I am not there to look at trees. I would not recommend this place to anyone looking to get a BS/​BA.

very nice campus, very nice school, good price, nice dorms, very open and honest staff, great tour guides.

I have a graduate degree from FSC (now Framingham State University) and could not be more satisfied.
I traveled over an hour every other Saturday to attend classes. The remainder of the program was online. The classes were small enough to allow personal instruction; the faculty was fantastic, professional, knowledgeable, and concerned to help each student realize their goals. There is a real sense of community at FSC, and I made life-​long friendships. I paid the New England regional rate since I do not live in Massachusetts, but it was still quite reasonable. My graduate degree advanced my career; it was absolutely worth the expense.
The campus is very green in the spring and summer with brick buildings. It’s a beautiful campus. There is plenty of parking, at least on the weekends when I attended. It is very hilly and can get tiring to walk from the parking lots to the classes.
I recommend this school highly.

Affordable graduate programs for in state students.