Miami University-Oxford Top Questions

I am an accounting major and the business program at our school is only two years long instead of four years and you can enter the business school once you are a junior. This is extremely frustrating because I came in to college with some AP credits and I want to take upper level business courses that would normally be available to any students at other schools, but I can?t because I am still a freshman and am not yet in the business school.

Being in the middle of nowhere with very very limited and expensive transport options.

I'm an out-of-state student which really adds to the cost of going to Miami. It's an expensive school to begin with, but being out-of-state I pay nearly double. I live in Indiana, only about four minutes away from the Ohio border. Most universities give students that live near the state border in-state tuition. For some reason Miami doesn't. I knew that Miami was the college I wanted to go to because it's a great school with very high academic standards. But the cost is definitely a downfall.

The most frustating thing with my school is the expenses of tuition and not enough financial aid. So some things are hard to enjoy because of cost of living and going to class.

One aspect that is frustrating for some is the lack of cultural diversity on campus. Many people here are white, heterosexual, come from an upper-middle class background, dress in only designer clothes, drive expensive cars, etc. Not everyone is like this, but these students are definitely have a distinctive presence on campus.

I love Miami but the attitude of the students is awful. It is always a competition to see who dresses the best or gets the best grades. I would love to go to a school with the academics like Miami but without being so stuck up. I want to make friends that I can trust and ones that I can count on for anything.

Money. Right now everyone is worried about it and even the campus is starting to take a hit. It's a dilemma because if we bring it more students the class sizes get bigger which is something we try to stay away from but if we don't generate money somewhere we are going to have more problems. Diversity is also a problem, there is just not enough of it and people who are here of a different race are the athletes. There is some underlying racism but it's more because the students aren't used to it.

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Easily, the most frustrating thing is figuring out how to pay for college. It's stressful- trying to balance school and finances, especially right out of high-school, when you had little or no responsibilities.

The school has recently put into place a campus wide smoking ban. It is frustrating for students who smoke because in some cases it can take up to 25 to 30 minutes to walk off campus. There are no small smoking areas in the middle of campus. Additionally, the school does not consider student's safety in regard to this matter at night. It is unsafe to walk off campus after midnight, when most people are still up studying.