re: How do other universities (other than lsu) see Southern University Grads

Better than someone without a college degree. Depending on the person they could be very intelligent/successful. Speaking of the law school I'd say the price is great at Southern and can be a descent option for some people.

I graduated from Southern and I'm doing pretty well. frick what others think, do u. I enjoyed my experience and met lifelong friends there, who are also doing well. Perception is not reality.

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I've never met a southern graduate.

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Never met anyone with a 4-yr degree from Southern, either. Strange, since it's only two hours away from where I live.

Southern churns out people with Masters degrees who can't even pass the Praxis I in order to get alternatively certified to teach. It is pathetic. I know one lady who has a Masters plus 30 and she is working as a Para in a school system making $18,000 a year because no one will hire her as anything else. She is incapable of speaking or writing properly yet she has two degrees from Southern. The place is a degree mill or diploma mill or whatever they call them. It would be shut down if it wouldn't cause a race riot.

Edit: I am shocked to read about the 8% graduation rate. All of those 8% must be applying for teaching jobs because I see them all the time.

I went to LA Tech and graduated in Physics. I do not see an issue with Southern University

I see ALOT of freshman at SU. I have a hard time believing that 75 % won't graduate.

I have seen LinkedIn profiles of Southern graduate doing numerous jobs from engineering to scientific research to medicine and law. It really depends on the person. Those who want to teach have opportunities, but other avenues are available

While attending UNO I also had classes at Southern in New Orleans. They did some kind of mandatory cross enrollment where some mandatory classes were only held there. It was to encourage people to cross-enroll. I have always taken extra classes anyway, even in high school which is how I graduated at 16. The classes I wanted were at Southern so off i went.

I do have to say this. I was concerned about it, especially since i was attending there during the OJ trial. I was a small white girl, a minority there at a time when the OJ trial dominated the news and divided Americans racially. But I found that everyone there was so much nicer than at UNO.

The staff did everything they could to help us and the students helped each other - a total stranger copied the entire text book to give me a copy because they had sold out and it was unavailable anymore. I was very surprised and happy with the atmosphere there. I just expected it to be rather unfriendly like UNO.

I am saddened by the 8% graduation rate. I have only good memories of my time there.

I worked with a guy for 13 years who had a Chemistry degree from SU. While a nice guy, and hard worker, his speech was awful and his knowledge of Chemistry was sorely lacking. It is obvious you know that SU offers an inferior education or you wouldn't start so many threads about this topic.

I go to Southern because it offers an education experience I find more beneficial than my previous experiences.

I understand that some people may not graduate from their program having a solid grasp of information. But that can honestly be said of any school.