The following list the types of things that make a bad university.
- Never get back to your enquiries within 24-48 hrs
- Don't prioritize or who can't be bothered about students
- Really slow admin processes you are bound to be frustrated for the entire academic period, it really is not worth it
- Terrible housing if you are looking for on-campus living
- Lecturers have no office hours and don't go out of their way to make themselves accessible to students
- Don't sympathize or show any empathy for students
- High faculty turnover
- Consistently drop in rankings each year
- Low student satisfaction
- Antiquated systems and IT
- Unhelpful staff
- Make mistakes even on academic transcripts
- Grade incorrectly
- Hold biases and discriminate on students
- Staff take kickbacks and discriminate on the admissions process
- Very low graduation rates or very high acceptance rates
- No accreditation for their courses
- Struggle to get funding for research and teaching and dependent completely on intake of students
- Probationary status or where abuse/harassment/discrimination are rampant
- Cannot separate education from religion
- Lack student services
- Driven by profits over quality of education
- No scholarship or alumni progams
- Terrible teaching methods
- Don't have any form of recognized research program or a poor publishing record
- Poor collaborative record with other established institutions both for teaching and research
- Poor health and safety record
- Poor international recognition
- Poor job prospects after graduation
- Unrecognized credential
- Poorly rated on government metrics for teaching and research quality
- Academic programs are not designed through standardized guidelines and recommendations
- Lacks diversity, equity, and inclusion in their processes
- Graduates from the university have little change in their prospects, and often lack ethics in how they conduct themselves in society
- the institution gives nothing back to society or the local community either via jobs, funding, charity, regeneration programs, or cultivating urban improvements
- the institution has misleading and complicated processes for admissions and in most cases done on purpose to cover up for biases and discrimination
- work experiences are asked for but not used for admissions
- trying to get students to take more prerequisites in order to make more money or the fact that they don't have that many advanced courses that are supposed to make the course interesting
- most of the courses that they advertise on open days are rarely available for students
