The 25 Universities With The Worst Professors
12 years ago

We’ve all had bad professors. I remember a math professor freshman year so bad and so completely senile that a segment of lecture on series in Calc. II turned into a discussion of eating guinea pig and ordering melon from a small Chilean cafe. In related news, apparently guinea pig is delicious. These experiences, at most schools, should just be an anomaly. The schools on the following list, however, have the dubious distinction of being some of the most highly concentrated homes of professorial suck in the country according to RateMyProfessors.com. With a few of these rankings it would seem that a few grains of salt need to be taken, as we are going off of internet reviews from a site that isn’t exactly doing peer-reviewed research. That said, I can at least attest that Maryland probably deserves #25 on this list. The number of professors here that should be in nursing homes or psychiatric wards, especially in the hard sciences, is astoundingly high.

25 universities with the worst professors

1. U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (NY)
2. Michigan Technological University
3. U.S. Coast Guard Academy (CT)
4. Milwaukee School of Engineering
5. New Jersey Institute of Technology
6. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY)
7. Widener University (PA)
8. St. Cloud University (MN)
9. Bentley University (MA)
10. Indiana State University
11. Worcester Polytechnic Institute (MA)
12. Central Michigan University
13. Minnesota State University, Mankato
14. Pace University (NY)
15. Stevens Institute of Technology (NJ)
16. Seton Hall University (NJ)
17. Westminster College (PA)
18. Howard University (DC)
19. Iowa State University
20. University of Toledo (OH)
21. Truman State University (MO)
22. Illinois State University
23. University of Connecticut
24. Oregon Institute of Technology
25. University of Maryland

There’s a decent concentration of New Jersey schools on the list, which should be surprising to no one who has ever been to New Jersey. Small Midwest schools and a few bigger Midwest state schools round out the other big group. The US Merchant Marine Academy takes the award for being the worst in the country in terms of professor ratings.

The number of big state schools is a little surprising, but that could just be a function of a great school with a few exceptionally shitty departments. Research universities seem to get hit hardest by this problem, because the professors would rather be running experiments in their labs than teaching several hundred hungover freshman at 8 am on Monday morning. Of course, if the class wasn’t so goddamn boring in the first place, maybe we wouldn’t go hungover.

Feel free to tear the list apart in the comments.

[via Yahoo! News]

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  2. Uncle Sam hates GDIs

    Not surprised about the merchant marine academy, they are industry professionals not teachers

    12 years ago at 1:24 pm
    1. NavySig1707

      ya after switching from a State school to USMMA, the profs here blow. Half of the professional instructors were fired from their sailing jobs.

      12 years ago at 4:50 pm
    2. BarryGreen

      The majority of competitive schools are located in the north? SEC schools have great sports programs but also have the stupidest students

      12 years ago at 1:59 pm
    3. RahRahDelt

      You’re aware that the best school systems are found in the Northeast and West coast, right? Probably not.

      12 years ago at 2:37 pm
  6. tom green

    I go to Michigan Tech, the fact that they are #2 makes this list not very credible. The amount of good profs far outweigh the bad. Ratemyprofessor is the only source? Clearly zero effort put into this list.

    12 years ago at 1:42 pm
    2. tom green

      Fuck you cunt business majors. Have fun working at WalMart while those of us who tried in school get rich. Clearly ^this dumb fuck can’t even be an English major. Pathetic.

      12 years ago at 9:13 pm
    3. IdiotPledge

      Have fun woodworking in a Northern Michigan cabin you fucking Husky. That’s about all an engineering degree from MTU will get you.

      12 years ago at 5:45 am
    4. PhiTauRaaaager

      You guys are both giving me cancer. Engineers need to get off their high horse. There are other careers out there that pay just as well or better, with a lot less grueling school work. Also, business majors are going to make a shit ton of money too. Idiotpledge, if he’s a ChemEng he’ll be doing something much more productive, like designing a plant to make dog food.

      12 years ago at 8:50 am
    6. tom green

      A business degree is worthless unless you know someone. I now work for a Fortune 500 company in a location of my choosing so suck my dick you know-nothing pricks.

      12 years ago at 9:30 am
    7. tom green

      hey phi tau, why don’t you name some of these “other careers?” Because you can’t, if there were a career where you could get rich without working hard everyone would do it, especially you lazy Obama loving future welfare suckers.

      12 years ago at 9:35 am
  7. BarryGreen

    Just out of curiosity, how does a school like Bentley have the worst professors if it is ranked in the top 20 business programs in the country?

    12 years ago at 1:56 pm
  8. RagerTheRaven

    How did Full Sail University not make this list? Or do try not even qualify as a semi legitimate school?

    12 years ago at 2:20 pm
    2. FaFinCamo

      I want to say it’s game design? Programming? Something like that? But I suppose “draw[ing] cartoons” sums it up pretty well.

      12 years ago at 12:49 pm
    1. Whiskey_Ginger

      Yea, mine made it as well. Fucking Maryland. I’m going to go ahead and blame the math, physics and chem departments. Math and physics profs can’t lecture, and chem professors have a masochistic streak here.

      12 years ago at 3:47 pm