Marquette University Top Questions

Marquette is a strong, vibrant comminity. The University's mission statement has 4 words that sum up the people there. Excellence, faith, leadership, and service. Many schools I looked at just said that they were "like" that but at Marquette, people truely live that statement out. With those four stong pillars, one student is accepted into the Marquette Community.

Service is a huge deal. I feel that Marquette puts a huge emphasis on developing the individual as a whole person, through experiences, not just academics. The professors are amazing and truly care about students- they are available quite frequently and are easy to get a hold of. At Marquette, you actually feel important. One thing I have noticed about Marquette that makes it different from many places is that most people hold the door for others. It is one of those contagious, do good things that everyone seems to do. I like it. :)

The city atmosphere and snow

It's private, and it is a very well known university for academics in a medium sized city.

Marquette is a small university, but not too small - you're always meeting new people. Marquette is all about service and the community and being the diference in our society. Marquette faculty care about the student's future and are willing to meet with the student to talk about their career. All the students are open to one another's opinions and ideas. It really is a great school!

It's a small, private college in a downtown location which gives students a lot of job opportunities and an academic advantage over other colleges in the surrounding area.

It has a very strong athletic and academic programs. It has a very nice campus with a very large library. It is very prestigious and difficult to get into. It's in a big city with a lot of activities to do.

Marquette University is very much a part of the Milwaukee community. We are right in the heart of downtown with great accessability to the whole city. We also have an enormous focus on community outreach which keeps us in touch with the outside world while still maintaining the college atmosphere.

Milwaukee is a smaller city.

The location and great attitude on campus. Also, the "LIMO" service, the safe buses that are available to students in the evenings.

The student government is a complete farce, mostly due to an administration that doesn't generally care about what it says. The students have an almost nonexistent role in how the university operates, with most major policy decisions made unilaterally by the administration. The ROTC program is generally populated by conservative wingnuts that no one takes seriously, and lately there have been protests against this program by opponents of the current US foreign policy. The Jesuits are actually mostly cool people, with some of them teaching cool classes. The financial aid office is generally useless. Their solution for finding more money is, most often, "look on Fastweb," a website which is also generally useless. The food in the dorms is, by and large, pretty bad. College food invariably is, and MU is no exception. The meal plan policy, up until next year, at least, is also complete garbage, and costs entirely too much money. The library is quite nice, with plenty of quiet places to sit down and study or write. The chapel in the center of campus is beautiful, and if you're Catholic the 10PM Tuesday Mass is highly recommended. The surrounding neighborhood is not the safest in the world, but it's not the most dangerous either. There are plenty of places for upperclassmen to live, as long as they are attentive to their safety and surroundings. The dorms are all perfectly safe and well staffed. The public safety department is outstanding, and well armed. They do an excellent job protecting and serving the students and keep campus and the surrounding neighborhood safe.

The area surrounding the school is bad, the students are snotty, and the dorms have too many rules (no opposite sex sleepovers, need to check every person in). However, the class sizes are good, many professors are very credible, and if you find the right group of people for you it can be a very good experience.

The Marquette bookstore (BookMarq) SUCKS! They are a monopoly on campus and rip you off. They refuse to release ISBN numbers of books (which makes sure that students can only buy books from them). They also don't buy back most of your books, and when they do, you get ripped off. I bought a $200 Communications set for one semester and BookMarq wouldn't buy it back. I brought the set to the underground bookstore down the street and got about $5. While I do feel that Marquette's administration cares about student security (which is probably only because bad things happening to students would be bad press), I don't really feel that the administration cares about me. I feel that all they care about is wringing more money out of me. Red tape at Marquette is obnoxious. To set up a philanthropy event I had to fill out like 3 forms from 3 different offices and talk to several people. You wouldn't think a Catholic school would make philanthropy so difficult. Overall, I really don't care about Marquette and don't have Marquette spirit. What I do care about is my fraternity, because they care about me. Why care about something when it doesn't care back?

Marquette: either you love it or hate it. Make sure you really visit the school before deciding.