| I loved UK when I was there, but that was a long time ago and didn't have many options at the time since I was from Lexington and my parents said they would only pay for a local campus. I lived off campus so couldn't tell you much about the dorms. I majored in Economics. If you like sports, its a great town and there is a huge alumni Network of basketball fans even in Boston where I live. If you live out of State, I don't think UK can give you much of a leg up in jobs. I did a summer abroad in Hungary/Vienna with the business school and had an experience of a lifetime, but most schools offer that kind of thing now.
I couldn't find a job after school and so I went straight to grad school MBA at George Washington U in DC. I ended up working at the State Department and for a Congressional subcommittee, but it was a steep climb competing with many Ivy League students, but if you work hard you can pretty much get to the places you want to go with a state school degree. I found that many of the people that I interviewed with loved to talk sports so in that sense it is up there with Ohio State, North Carolina, Florida and I always would use that as a discussion point to kind of break the ice with interviewers.
My husband ended up at Harvard Business School and I can tell you that UK is world's away from the opportunities that were offered him just from the network of students. They set aside an entire semester so all the Investment Banks can come in and interview. You won't find that at UK, but my opinion is if you aren't going to an Ivy then there isn't too much of a differential between UK and other schools. | 
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