<p>I’ve attended both a community college and a 4-year-college, and in many respects, I think the cc offered a more pleasant environment. One reason why the teachers in the ccs might seem better is because the students come from different age groups and walks of life than at the 4-year. For some reason, the ccs don’t attract so many students who don’t really want to be there and see college as a long string of parties than there are at many 4-year schools.</p>
<p>I’ll have to agree with this to a certain extent. Since starting community college, Ive had really good professors. the problem is that since it is a community college, the students are looked down upon or treated with less respect since the stereotype of people going to a CC is “they must be stupid or they cant make it in regular school” Personally Ive had had both experiences, where some of the hardest classes are easier here like Calc 3 and P2 and actually enjoyed them both. however, my p2 teacher was a bit of a jerk and talked to us like we were in kindegarten but my calc 3 teacher pretty much made the material easy as possible (he even admitted that the class was pretty much useless since no one cares about it anyway and one day he cussed up a storm over something unrelated, lol good times)</p>
<p>so what im saying is that it really depends on what class/school. Ratemyprofessor is always key</p>
<p>I currently study in a CC. Some of my profs are extraordinary. Some of them are there to get good evaluations and salary. Some of them assume every students in class are stupid. My myth prof has PhD, and he maybe the best prof I’ve ever had. I wish I have 1/2 of his knowledge. Of course he doesn’t has the answer for everything, but he does care whether his student in his class learn or not. And at least I don’t fall asleep in his class like I usually do in other classes.</p>
<p>I transferred out of my CC to a small, well ranked LAC…two different worlds obviously, and the the teachers at my new school are leagues better. I had one, one good teacher over the course of my year at GPC. Because I was taking classes at a satellite campus half of the professors were high school teachers during the day and taught college classes on the side. Most of them were awful. </p>
<p>Rate my professor is also, I’m fairly certain, absolutely worthless, especially at a small college or smaller community college. 85% of the people on the website are people with a vendetta.</p>
<p>it may seem like community college professors are better teachers or more focused on actually teaching but that isnt the case. it only seems that way because the course is community college level aka borderline remedial. People then falsely believe they understand the material/course easier because the proffessor taught it better but in reality its only simpler because the course is a watered down version of a private university course.</p>
<p>Now, given that I’m simply a dual-enrolled high school senior, I have never taken a university course. That said, at the community-turned-state college I take classes at, there are a lot of bad professors, but there are a lot of REALLY GREAT professors. Some teach up to eight classes a semester, and are wonderful at what they do. I started taking classes there because I had heard such great things about certain Psychology, History, and Philosophy professors, and there seem to be great professors in every field. Naturally, there are not so great professors, but I haven’t had any (word of mouth + RMP, and I’m 13/13 for good professors).</p>
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I’m trying to ignore the irony of your spelling and grammar. If courses were so “remedial”, then I wouldn’t think that there would be so many successful transfers to universities. As for me, the state of Florida mandated that all community college classes be taught on the same level and comprehensiveness of comparable classes at state universities, as a part of the guaranteed 2+2 transfer agreement. Now, there are certainly community college professors more focused on teaching than their university counterparts. A professor at a community college may teach eight classes a semester, honing teaching skills, while his/her counterpart at a university may only stick to the required one class a semester, focusing mainly on research.</p>
<p>Oh, and there are remedial level courses at the college I attend, but they’re not for any credits, and are only taken by those who score poorly in a particular area.</p>