Sam Houston State University

When looking for a university to transfer to, that you are interested in, you naturally go to a campus tour to see what’s it’s all about.
So, that’s what I did, but I was kinda interested not fully since the deadline for Fall 2016 hadn’t passed yet, I said what the heck.
OK, the drive up to SHSU was nice and when we (Wayne and I) got here, the campus was absolutely beautiful!!!
Newly renovated antique buildings looking so bright so clean, flowers and mostly azaleas were everywhere.
Though, that’s the big picture you see when you are lured into this place, but what left a sour taste in my mouth was the people.
The campus «Bearkats» weren’t very friendly, nice, kind, sweet, whatever you’d like to call it. They catered more to the freshman on the tour, than me being a transfer student. We viewed all of the buildings with their majors, except for mines being into sciences and kinesiology.
The Bearkats seemed fakery nice meaning two-​faced and not sincere.
Even after the tour, I so badly wanted to see if most of my credits transferred since I requested my transcript sent here and every Bearkats I spoke to about finding the registrar office led me into another direction.
For someone’s especially a visitor and possibly a prospective student I was getting frustrated that their first impressions weren’t up to standards for transfer students.
I eventually found it, no thanks to the so called Bearkats.
When I arrived to the admissions office, the lady immediately told me how many of credits transferred, but couldn’t tell me which ones. Then, this guy who worked there told me I had gotten accepted into SHSU last Friday and I was there on Monday for the tour.
(Old news?) it took three days to actually receive the letter, I was semi-​excited to know I’d been accepted.
However, when going to pick up my Sam card, the ladies in there wasn’t very nice and bubbly. I didn’t feel at all that I belonged it this school and will probably not go here.
Also, I was looking forward to taking a tour of the housing facilities that one of the tour guides promised we were able to see after the main tour. We asked the same individuals where is residence life located all said that we needed to go to the student centre and so we walked to that building and nothing was there regarding housing.
So this nice kind student helps us, tells us we need to hike a mile across campus to find res life. We do that and after walking ten miles to res life we get there to find out more bad news and rude people.
One of the res life Bearkats tell us that aren’t doing housing tours anymore since the deadline had passed and instead gave me a paper listing all the apartments outside campus.
The fact that they cater more to their freshmen students than transfers is ridiculous! Plus, everyone on campus isn’t helpful.
We transfer students work a whole lot harder than HS students and should be treated equal!

Just a fantastic school. Friendly and small enough to relax. Beautiful campus. Still growing but older sections are so serene. Awesome instructors. Small town all around. Countryside really close and beautiful. The piney woods of Texas is just down the road. Lakes are so close. Not too far from Houston or College Station and Eve Austin is just down the road! Great curriculum offered in many fields. Some of the top professors in their field are here. Simple simple simple. An unforgettable experience waiting to happen. Relatively Low cost. Great sports programs. It’s just too good to pass up. Really nice Sam Houston memorial Park right across the street. History surrounds this campus and if your from Texas you will absolutely love and treasure the time you spend here. Not to mention the Degree you earn at the same time. It’s a win… win!

One of the worst academic experiences I have ever had. Number one if you want to go to this school or transfer to it, let me give you some advice. DO NOT let the student staff push you around, get the names and department of people you talked to so if they give you the wrong information REPORT their butts! When you go to the visitor center say you are a visitor so they will give you a parking pass. When I went to campus my second time this one girl at the front desk told me «I’m not allowed to give you a pass and if I did your fine would be doubled. You have to park across the street» Not to mention, i called the school to confirm if i could go to the visitor center a second time, they told me it was ok. when I did there were signs everywhere saying ‘if you are not employee parking you will be towed «upset I talked to the cashier at that store and she said to go ahead and park their because the student staff doesn’t know what they are doing. After this night mare I have had several arguments with financial aid. They advised me to fax off certain documents to them so they can process my case (which I did) they emailed me saying they never received them. So I would send them again and they still said they never received them. Then they would tell me they needed one more document and that’s all and in the end that wasn’t the case. This school is poorly set up do not let them run you and if apply to go to school here make SURE you are keeping in contact with them. If not you may not get your FAFSA when needed. Very disorganized and pathetically disorganized

I graduated from SHSU (SAM) in August 2009 from the criminal justice program. In 2007 when looking for good schools to attend that had a worthy CJ program, out of the 3 best in the nation was SHSU. I had never heard of it, nor ever heard of Huntsville. Upon exploring it, I knew it was for me, small town, beautiful campus, everything nearby and nice people. I ended up getting stuck here in this small town and I just cannot leave. Got me a job as a corrections officer, which for some with a college degree would say that is too low on the totem pole, but honestly right now I am making a few dollars more a month starting out doing that then I would as my dream job as a parole officer, I am too young to sit in an office Monday thru Friday. I would rather work 4 days on and 4 days off. Thank you SHSU for giving me a head start in life. If you want to stay out of the big cities, go to SHSU, yes there is a lot of students and the campus is fairly big, but it beats Houston, Dallas, Austin or Lubbock with the riff raff and traffic.

So I only visited, and perhaps spending more time on the campus will change my opinion. That in mind I still think that the campus is beautiful and the faculty (at least the ones I met) are quality.

Excellent University had a great college experience. I went with my wife for a Saturday at Sam. The minute my foot touched the SHSU grounds I knew I was meant to come here. I recommend the Mass Com building. Dr. White, Professor Mel Strait are what sealed the deal for me. I had other excellent mentors like Leann Munns and Richard Kosuowei. It is definately the college experience I needed. Thank you guys!
DJ Frogger

Animation Major here
Pros: Inexpensive, nice campus, friendly professors, decent student body
Cons: i think the administration forgets about some of the departments here. as of writing this, most of the art students are confined to four or five 20 year old temp buildings in the back corner of campus (the animation students are placed in a few labs in the physics building across the street). It makes us more close knit to each other, but the lack of attention leads to a generally low morale in regards to the school.
Would I go here again? It’s hard to say, since I saved a lot of money. If I did, I would have been in and out as fast as I could, and perhaps taken Animation mentor courses on the side.

If are you thinking of going to a institution of higher education, then do not go to Sam Houston State. The facility is in great need of repair, the staff is short on brains and the ability to help students or family with any issues or problems that they are having, they charge the student for services that they did not even use. The dorms look like seedy hotels from the 40’s and 50’s. The professors all think that they just have to show up and draw a paycheck, but they do nothing to help the students. Avoid this college at all costs.

Great school!