Arizona State University-Tempe Top Questions

to some degree

I think that every college is a "party school" if you want it to be. If you want to find a party- you can, but if you want to go hang out and do other things with friends- you can. I think that ASU students are pretty dumb sometimes- you hear that they let everyone in who applies because they want $$$ and in some classes I have had a difficult time understand why these people are in a big university such as ASU.

There are 65,000 students at ASU - no stereotype is going to accurately reflect the whole student body. Whoever you are, you can find others at ASU who fit your style.

ASU has such a large student population that obviously there are a fair number of these people and ever-present industries that cater to them. However, it also offers a huge number of interesting, small classes taught by the leaders in the academic fields, populated by unique and vocal students. There are lots of opportunities for internships and the administration is really trying to improve the worth of an ASU degree and interact with the community to an unprecedented degree for an academic institution. The "party" stereotype, in my experience, translated into everyone being a little bit more laid back, like meetings with your professors taking place at happy hour of the local bar.

Our student population is one of the largest in the country, therefore I am sure that those things are amplified to an extent, and may be somewhat true, but no more than any other large college campus.