Colorado State University-Fort Collins Top Questions

My favorite class would be one of my economic classes because the teacher is great and my worst class was philosophy, the teacher was hard to follow and the text was a lot to take in and read critically.

My freshman year here at CSU has been much different than I expected. When I came to college I was expecting to write 20 page papers, and have ridiculously hard tests, and all of the other stereotypes about how difficult college is. I will agree that to do well here one must put in the work, but it is definitely not as impossible as some people made it seem. The professors here are great, always willing to get to know students and help them out whenever possible, it's just a matter of whether the students choose to seek out this help. The education at CSU is geared toward getting a job and producing well-rounded students.

I think some classes are somewhat hard and its a little stressful when you are taking 18 credits and have a test in every class and papers due all in the same week but its managable for sure. The teachers are very helpful if you use their office hours and ask questions during recitations or labs.

We have awesome teachers here at CSU.

The classes at CSU are awesome. I really enjoying what I am learning about because CSU makes my major fun. I am studying Apparel and Merchandising and every professor I have had knows what they are taking about. They are educated and are there to help you in everyway possible

Most professors know my name regardless of the size of the class. Professors are approachable and I feel comfortable asking them any questions. I am much more right brained so I like my management classes more than my technical classes such as accounting and finance. I personally have studied more since I have gotten into my major but I don't know if that would be true for everyone. People are also much more willing to learn which make the process much more enjoyable. Students are competitve but not any more that at any other college. In all I think that the requirements are well suited for the curriculum. In every class i've taken my outcome has been directly related to my effort.

The Finance department needs more classes that are more intellectually stimulating. The Financial Planning Track is a joke.

I do not know all of my professors' names; however, I do know a lot of them. My least favorite class is macroeconomics because it is a tough topic to grasp. My CSU friends and I have a lot of intellectual conversations outside of class. The education at CSU at the freshman level, is geared toward education but I expect my other classes when I am further in my college career with be more toward getting a job.

The professors in the COB know my name, and usually like to be on a first-name basis. My favorite class at CSU was a diversity leadership and training course taught by business advisors. I do spend time with faculty outside of class with the various clubs that I am in with the College of Business. The education curriculum for the College of Business teaches you a lot of foundational principles, but does not prepare you enough for today's job economy. We are too busy studying cases that are 20 years old and reading even older textbooks that the professors wrote. There is also no consistency to classes that have different instructors. If two students come out of the same class, but with different professors, they are going to be at two totally different levels. In the Marketing world web and graphic design experience is increasing exponentially for employers. The COB does not offer a single class to gain design experience, or even try to build some sort of portfolio to bring to their interviews. This is discounting COB marketing seniors because firms are looking for some sort of tech experience, and the only class that is offered is in the CIS department. This class only focuses on back end HTML coding, and has multiple pre-requisites that only CIS majors take. We're missing out on a very big part of marketing, which is imagination and design.

In some of the freshman level classes there are over 100 students so it's harder for professors to know everyone. But in my experiece there has always been an opportunity to go meet the professor if you want to. Also the TAs are usually very accessable and helpful. Once you start geting into more major focused classes you will have much smaller class sizes and many teachers will know you by name.