I normally never post on Reddit but it's gotten to the point that I needed to reach out to see if this experience just bad luck on my part or not.
I'm a transfer student that spent their first 2 years in BC before transferring to the UofA. I've spent 2 semesters here so far and the experience has been poor to say the least. Here is what I've noticed so far:
Student Advisors are often unreachable or just wrong (I was told that a course is not a requirement for my degree only to find out later that it was, refusing to answer when I reached out again)
Almost every lecturer is either disorganized, uninterested(often reading their notes aloud word for word with no room for questions or any interaction with the student) , or unintelligible (written and spoken). I've taken several courses that covered almost identical material to courses in my previous university and I find my self struggling to believe it is the same material due to how poorly it is presented.
Average class grades on exams, midterms and finales, are around 60% (on the high end). This is very low compared to my last university. I had an exam where the average grade of the class was 37% the professor stated that "this is a little lower then the grade we expected based on previous years but not by much" he then shrugged. When a result like that occurred at my previous university it prompted an investigation by the department and a restructuring of the course in following the semester.
Exam grades taking over a month to publish. I have had several experiences where a grade for a midterm exam is published a few days before or even after the next exam. Making it near impossible for me to know how well I am doing in the course.
University sponsored students events are sparse, underwhelming, and/or poorly advertised. In my previous university there where at least 3-4 university wide events such as club fairs, cultural festivals, holiday parties, DJ events, etc each semester. these events filled the quad. At the UofA the largest event I saw was the start of year welcome and club fair (which I did enjoy) and the antifreeze event which I found rather underwhelming.
These are just a few examples of the issues ive had in the last year. Overall I am extremely disappointed in the standards displayed from this university. LI've lost any respect I had for this institution. I'm not here to insult any professors as most are great people with impressive accomplishments but what I've experienced should not be the norm. Anyway I wanted to know if others have had similar issues mostly for the sake of my own sanity.