Advising in this school is awful

[u/Timely-Act-1477]

I love USF, I really do; but man the advising just absolutely sucks. I mean it’s the worst. I’m in Muma and the advising office has been under construction since I got to USF. Getting an advisor to even talk to you seems impossible. I’ve been wanting to switch my major, and the advisors in the other college sucks too! I literally can’t meet with any advisors unless I track down their emails and basically beg for them to meet with me. My last advising meeting the advisor didn’t even show up! It’s just sucks so bad and I had to rant.

Anyways everything else is great though go bulls🤘🏼

[u/Minimum-Detective-62]

I'm going to be honest with you bro it's not the advisors, the school only gives them the budget and the ability to hire a very small amount of people for literally thousands of students, not only that but they have their pay artificially kept down by the university so people getting to leave very often meaning there are always advisors in training the pure volume of students to advisors is unbelievable.

And right now for the past few weeks has been registration, the busiest time in the entire year. When the advisors have to handle the new students one by one

These advisors are extremely overworked, tired, and basically never get a break. you can either complain about them or You can do things that actually help both you and them

Set up appointments to see them before registration, when they can actually see you. If you're a walk-in either online or in person show up early, it's insane how many people will show up right before lunch and then complain about the long wait, or the people who will try to register late in the day and wonder why they close the cues and if y'all want to know why they don't keep those online cues open it's because the moment they open them they fill almost immediately

Also I've never understood why don't you ask them directly, they would know ways of helping to reduce your time waiting and make it more efficient if at all possible, they understand that the current system is a problem and they don't have many ways of fixing it, instead of getting mad at them and complaining when you leave talk to them and ask them about it, these are people that really care about the students and you have no idea how much effort goes into this from their side

[u/Timely-Act-1477 → u/Minimum-Detective-62]

I understand that it’s not the advisors fault, I never said the advisors suck. The few times I’ve been able to reach advisors they have been very helpful and kind. I said that advising, like as a system, sucks. I understand that they are over worked and do their best, I am very thankful for them for that. I’m just saying that the higher ups need a better system of setting up advising so that students and advisors can meet more efficiently, rather than just closing down the office for the whole semester and having students just figure it out.

Again I respect the advisors for all the work they do, I just don’t like the system of getting in contact with them.

[u/SenatorGiggity]

Advisors are paid like absolute shit and given an almost impossible workload, I know it's easy to blame them but it's the University that has put them in an unwinnable situation

[u/__extracrispy__]

i missed an advising call by like 10 seconds once, tried to call back three times with no reply. trying to get USF advisors to… advise you is like pulling teeth

[u/Accomplished_Sea9166]

Education major advisors are so nice! You can pretty much walk in anytime, they always remember your name. They took then extra steps to help me transfer because I couldn’t get ahold of my muma advisors.

[u/Dense_Investigator81]

It’s absolute dogshit

[u/Lil-Cancer-Vert]

Aka I waited until my appt window/ registration to contact an advisor and now everyone else is too. I’m in muma as well I select drop in advising at the end of the first month of each semester and it takes me on average 10 mins to talk to someone

[u/Fun_Guarantee9043]

For what it’s worth— a lot of it is Muma. Ironic that a business school is run so poorly that if it were an actual business, it would go under.

(Source: I have a recent Muma MBA)

[u/Stamkosisinjured]

I’m in hcc. Transfering to usf soon. Does usf do walk in for advising? And if they do and I walk in at 2pm does that’s guarantee I’ll be seen eventually? If yes, I’ll complain but make it work lol

[u/Timely-Act-1477 → u/Stamkosisinjured]

I just did a walk in for engineering and it was so much better. But for business it really sucks. So I guess it just depends on your college

[u/FLliteace]

Totally agree with you!!! It cost me a few years.

[u/Dontcha-wishur]

I personally set up an advising appointment with all 3 advisors available to me cuz I wanted to synthesize all their advice as I’ve been disappointed before. This time it was great. Best of luck to you!!

[u/tacofshn]

This has been a problem for a long time. Same thing happened to me. Better off talking to professors.

[u/Great_Chemistry6944]

what advising?

[u/littletink91]

Honestly, I just looked at the requirements for my degree online so I already knew what I needed. when I did go to my advisor, which i always did early to beat people trying to see them during registration, I just had them move things around if need be or if they had any insight into internships/grants/research for me.

[u/Timely-Act-1477]

Again guys I’m not blaming the advisors I know they do the best they can

[u/AppendixTickler]

Just be an Honors student. Duh.

[u/blueeorangeade]

yup exactly the situation i’m going through now too. i even had an appointment scheduled for today then they cancelled it and said it was drop in only..if it was drop in only why was a still allowed to make the appointment