<p>I'm considering taking one class in linguistics at GMU in Fall 2007. I'm just completing my freshman year, and I'm taking a year out from my university for financial reasons. I won't get resident tuition, so the class is expensive for me, about $2300, although that's cheaper than other local universities. I'd be taking the class because it's an academic interest, and is exactly what I need to fill a gap in a particular area of my subject, and I can't find the class content anywhere else locally. Please give me an honest assessment- what is the academic quality of GMU?</p>
<p>That's sort of an odd question. </p>
<p>Where is academic quality bad? I've had friends that go to Ivy League schools talk down about GMU for no particular reason. I've never found that friends at other schools know more than I do about a common field of study.</p>
<p>I took Latin for two years at GMU and it was extremely difficult and time-consuming--but I learned well enough.</p>
<p>I'd say do it...except that's an incredible amount of money for one course. They ought to have it at Northern Virginia Community College. The professors are still professors.</p>