reviews for Masters of Information KMD/UX concentration through iSchool

Unless those stats list total graduates in addition to total responses, take them with a massive grain of salt. Unemployed or underemployed graduates may be wildly underrepresented.

Just some things to watch for in that faculty:

  • there is a certain administrator who is downright unprofessional and shames students publicly over email

  • the faculty occasionally make administrative decisions that are absolutely unheard of in academia, e.g.,

  • adding pre-requisites to a course after registration has already occurred, and pressuring students to de-register

  • preventing second-year students from taking mandatory intro courses despite having no such policy the year before, and despite recommending reduced first-year loads to some students

  • not offering required courses in some streams at least once every two years (i.e., the length of their programs), which is one of several possible reasons that led a massive decrease in the proportion of students finish on time, but this was around 2013 so it may have worked itself out and may have been field-specific

The good news is that if you keep your head down and basically ignore certain members of that administration who you will quickly identify as unprofessional, as well as dodge any curricular sucker punches they aim in your direction (again, this might be field-specific), you'll have a great time. The faculty is all world class and the front-desk staff are extremely pleasant and efficient.

Disclaimer: I studied at two separate universities and departments prior to that one, including in a field where the curriculum never changes, so I was unprepared for the strange things that happen when a program has an identity crisis and is constantly making major overhauls to its programs.

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