University of Toledo

[greenvillebuckeye]

UT class of '03.

Engineering - Not bad. Lot of friends from high school and those I met while there graduated and went to decent jobs. Nothing like GE or anything but most found some decent work right after graduating.

Pharmacy - Knew a ton of Pharm majors. Studied ALL THE TIME. Very competitive. You spend your first two years trying to actually get into the college of Pharmacy. I knew people who did 2 years at UT only to NOT get into the upper level pharm program and had to transfer to ONU's college of pharm to continue to pursue their major / career.

Education - believe or not is more competitive than BGSU (regarded as the teacher's college of NW Ohio). As with the pharm situation, the college of education had a lower level and an upper level. To get into the upper level and thus actually be enrolled in the college you had to take what is called Praxis 1 (essentially like the ACT). Had a couple female friends in the early childhood edu program who after 2 years did not make qualifying scores and again a few of them transferred to BGSU to finish out and get their degree.

Business - don't know too much about this one. did not know too many biz majors if any

Arts and Science - History program was top notch (then again I'm bias). heard nothing but horrible things about the Math dept. Bio and chem seemed good. Most of the Bio and Chem courses it seemed served the needs of the pharm college. LOTS of psych majors.



Loved being only an hour south of Detroit and not far from Windsor. Thoroughly enjoyed the city. Grew up in Lima, Ohio about an hour south of Toledo.

Anything west and north of campus is solid. East is ok until you get past Westmoreland. Door street and anything south of Door was a train wreck. Was up there this fall for homecoming. Hadn't been on campus in years. Door street has really picked up and Secor has changed a lot as well.

[ram2]

Originally Posted by greenvillebuckeye

UT class of '03.

Engineering - Not bad. Lot of friends from high school and those I met while there graduated and went to decent jobs. Nothing like GE or anything but most found some decent work right after graduating.

Probably a good thing, since GE in Cincinnati is now in layoff mode when everybody else is hiring.

[residinghere2007]

Originally Posted by ram2

Is Dayton one of the better Midwest cities?

I think it depends on what you are looking for.

I know a lot of people from Dayton (ironically, I met them when I lived down south lol) and Dayton natives remind me a lot of Toledo natives - down to earth, nice people.

I have only been to Dayton twice in the past couple years but from what I could tell versus how it was when I was younger and went there more often, it is much nicer now that it used to be. They started cleaning up the city and resurfacing roads and such prior to Toledo so IMO they look better now on the street level than some Toledo neighborhoods.

Also, Dayton opened itself up to immigrants and so attracted some people to move there. Like Toledo and other "rust belt" cities, Dayton has been losing population and was suffering some economic decline. To curb population loss and build up a tax base the city there encouraged immigrants to move to Dayton. Since then the immigrant population has increase substantially. Contrary to what people believe, immigrants are actually more likely to open businesses than natural born citizens and so Dayton wanted to take advantage of that and welcome more immigrants to the area. I personally believe Toledo should do something similar but Toledo already has a pretty large immigrant population and has always been popular place for refugee resettlement as well but doing like Dayton is doing is a good idea IMO just to let new citizens know we are a welcoming place.

IMO, in Ohio the "better" cities are usually though of as Columbus, Cincinnati, and Cleveland, in no particular order, but it depends on what you view as "better." For instance, I wouldn't mind living in Columbus or Cincinnati but I wouldn't want to live in Cleveland due to crime issues and poor public schools.

People here in Toledo think we have issues with crime and schools but ours are way better than Cleveland and I believe not that much different from Columbus in either. Cleveland also gets too much snow. I would live in Cincinnati just because it is a beautiful, hilly city and both Cincinnati and Columbus are warmer than Cleveland or Toledo.

[greenvillebuckeye]

Originally Posted by residinghere2007

I think it depends on what you are looking for.

I know a lot of people from Dayton (ironically, I met them when I lived down south lol) and Dayton natives remind me a lot of Toledo natives - down to earth, nice people.

I have only been to Dayton twice in the past couple years but from what I could tell versus how it was when I was younger and went there more often, it is much nicer now that it used to be. They started cleaning up the city and resurfacing roads and such prior to Toledo so IMO they look better now on the street level than some Toledo neighborhoods.

Also, Dayton opened itself up to immigrants and so attracted some people to move there. Like Toledo and other "rust belt" cities, Dayton has been losing population and was suffering some economic decline. To curb population loss and build up a tax base the city there encouraged immigrants to move to Dayton. Since then the immigrant population has increase substantially. Contrary to what people believe, immigrants are actually more likely to open businesses than natural born citizens and so Dayton wanted to take advantage of that and welcome more immigrants to the area. I personally believe Toledo should do something similar but Toledo already has a pretty large immigrant population and has always been popular place for refugee resettlement as well but doing like Dayton is doing is a good idea IMO just to let new citizens know we are a welcoming place.

IMO, in Ohio the "better" cities are usually though of as Columbus, Cincinnati, and Cleveland, in no particular order, but it depends on what you view as "better." For instance, I wouldn't mind living in Columbus or Cincinnati but I wouldn't want to live in Cleveland due to crime issues and poor public schools.

People here in Toledo think we have issues with crime and schools but ours are way better than Cleveland and I believe not that much different from Columbus in either. Cleveland also gets too much snow. I would live in Cincinnati just because it is a beautiful, hilly city and both Cincinnati and Columbus are warmer than Cleveland or Toledo.

Cincinnati has horrible traffic though. I've never been able to through Cincinnati without some kind of stoppage. Time of day did not matter. 5 pm to 8 pm once you get between Florence, KY and Liberty Township, Oh you're gonna be in a parking lot.

[ram2]

Originally Posted by greenvillebuckeye

Cincinnati has horrible traffic though. I've never been able to through Cincinnati without some kind of stoppage. Time of day did not matter. 5 pm to 8 pm once you get between Florence, KY and Liberty Township, Oh you're gonna be in a parking lot.

Did you try using the I-275 bypass?

[residinghere2007]

Originally Posted by greenvillebuckeye

Cincinnati has horrible traffic though. I've never been able to through Cincinnati without some kind of stoppage. Time of day did not matter. 5 pm to 8 pm once you get between Florence, KY and Liberty Township, Oh you're gonna be in a parking lot.

I lived in metro Atlanta, GA for nearly 20 years. Cincinnati traffic is not as bad as Atlanta.