Radar Magazine has a great feature on the dark underbelly of secondary education with descriptions of the most degenerate and superficial student bodies, the ugliest campus and the biggest rip-off.
But the worst college in America sounds more like a detention center than an instution of higher education. The well-deserving loser is....
University of Bridgeport in Bridgeport, CT. We've never heard of this college before, but maybe that's because we're not big enough followers of Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. That's right, creepy 70s cult, the Moonies, bankroll this place where much of the student body is comprised of international students duped into enrolling. But for nearly $40,000 a year you don't just get cult indoctrination. Radar elaborates on the other educational perks.
"The campus is bordered by high-crime neighborhoods," writes a concerned grad, recalling the "naivete and innocence" of incoming students. "They'd trustingly tour the campus and surrounding area by foot and get mugged or killed." The city's violent crime rate is 60 percent above the national average, and over the past two years it has increased by another 6 percent.
For the past decade, incoming students have been presented with "personal alarm locators," portable panic buttons that summon security in the likely event of an emergency.
Sounds like a great place to get some street smarts and a couple really awesome scars.