Type: Public
State: Florida
Website: www.ucf.edu


Quick Overview:
Good library and computer facilities, food off campus is great and athletic facilities are excellent.
The word from: the Students

The university of Central Florida's reputation is not yet on par to it's true academic image. It's a great school with a very good academic program, the engineering and science programs are very well known and students also say great things of the hospitality, management and business programs. It's a very technological campus, things like internet all over the campus are a reality. The university has witnessed a very rapid growth these last decades and its size serves as evidence for this fact, it can be a bit overwhelming for new students and others that would like a more familiar approach to higher education. Classes are large and professors can be either very good, always available to help and make sure students understand what they teach, or simply bad, come into class read their notes and leave after. Upper-level classes don't seem to have these kinds of problems, they are fun and professors really know about what they teach and so students do learn more from them. When it comes to the administration, students say they are very genuine when it comes to caring to students needs, although it's hard to keep track of the entire student body needs since it's so large in size. Registration is not so great, it's difficult and if you don't schedule yourself right you can miss important classes sometimes.

The UCF campus is a beautiful, scenic and comfortable campus. Everything is quite close together, making it easier to go from one class to another, parking is still a problem no matter how big the campus gets though. It's a very socially active campus so if that's the kind of thing you like, it will be a perfect fit. The campus organizes a lot of social events and there is an enormous array of clubs and organizations to choose from. Sports are a very relevant part of UCF and the university has every kind of sport one can think of, a huge gym with all kinds of workout machines, football is a very popular sport among students as well. Fraternities and sororities have their representation at UCF as well but they're a minority here. The university's location provides the best of both worlds, on one hand the city of Orlando is a nice getaway for upperclassmen for nice relaxing breaks, on the other hand the surroundings around campus provide the typical college environment with clubs, bars and dance floors, for all sorts of college activities at night.

Variety seems to be a key factor when trying to describe the typical UCF student, other than being majorly from in-state, there is no other typical characteristic that can be applied to describe the student body. Very different people with their own set of things, friends, experiences, etc. There are big differences among students from the different schools in campus and even between schools. It's a huge mix of cultures and backgrounds, races, ethnicities.

Type: Public
State: Rhode Island
Website: www.uri.edu/admissions


Quick Overview:
Social gatherings and student publications are popular, off campus food is good as well as the university's library.


The word from: the Students
It's a nice medium sized school with a very good location. Among their best majors we can find nursing, engineering and sciences. The pharmacy program is well acclaimed nation wide and very competitive. Classes are rigorous at URI, for the grand part, while the others can even be very easy, but when it comes to help it can be found for both cases. Resources are always available, good ones even. There are really good teachers in URI, very knowledgeable in their fields and very helpful, always offering their free time to lend an hand to a student in need of aid, there are however teachers that are the opposite, cancelling classes and don't offer that much help in academics. Not only the teachers at URI receive this kind of dual review, the administration can be either very helpful or simply too bureaucratic at times, not looking into what really matters in the university very often.

URI is a beautiful school to study in, located on a big hill, in a rural area. Some of the dorm buildings may not have the best conditions possible but since so many students go home for the weekend, the great majority leave nearby, it's not a very big issue. Involvement in the campus activities is key for a good social experience in URI, sports teams are very popular among students, such as basketball and hockey. Being close to very nice beaches lets students enjoy water sea activities like surfing and swimming. Policies concerning alcohol are very strict, maybe above average, but that doesn't really stop students from getting wasted. Much of the social life at URI happens off campus, with parties a mere 15 minutes away, huge house parties almost every weekend at Narragansett, bars are popular as well. Urban activities lovers might just have to travel a bit to Providence.

For in-state students, URI is a very affordable option, as for out-state ones, mostly come from wealthy families or have scholarships. The student body has many typical college students that go to college for the social aspect of it. Most of the population is composed of guys that want to party and drive expensive cars and girls that wear expensive accessories and clothes. The political view is, in general, liberal, but very apathetic to politics. There isn't a great variety of ethinicities and even the ones that do exist don't mix.

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