Spring Arbor University Top Questions

It's so expensive. I am consistently struggling to find a way that i am going to pay for this next semester. The first year is usually really good for financial so you think you'll be alright and the next year it seems to plumet away. I have several loans I will have to pay of when I get out of school. I am terrified I won't be able to pay them off because I won't be able to find a job that pays enough.

The price is the worst thing about the school. Since it's a private institution, funding/opportunities are more limited.

I take all of my classes on-line the time involved is sometimes excrutiatingly painful.

All of its fields of study are not fully developed.

The worst thing about this school is the bubble everyone seems to be in. With this being a Christian University, some students are so sheltered and they have no clue what is going on in the world around them. I'm not from a Christian home, so I know what happens in the real world and I wish some of the students would get a dose of it sometimes.

The worst thing about Spring Arbor is that the student body is predominantly white. This does not allow for much interaction between people of different races and so students here are not able to gain perspectives from people who differ greatly from them. They do not get to understand the trials of people who are not in the majority.

I think that this school puts more importance on getting incoming students and not on the ones currently attending, this shows in our low retention rates.

The worst thing about Spring Arbor University is the food in the dining commons and the maintainence. The food is normally exotic and greesy. Many of the students I think would prefer traditional american type food rather than much of the spanish dishes they serve us. Also the maintainence department is not the quickest at responding to problems. If something is wrong in a dorm that needs fixed right away there should be someone on hand to fix the problem, normally it takes them a few days. Other than these two small problems everything else is great!

The food becuase it stinks really bad, makes you smell, and binds you up. I can't stand the food, and the faculty and administration stink as well because they expect you to have the capacity to do all this schoolwork and still have energy for extracurriculars. The faculty is insane and not very understanding.

Spring Arbor college is very good in welcoming and making students feel comfortable. The two bad things that i would say about spring arbor is, one the food in the dinning commons is not al that great. You get some days where the food is good and other days you are stuck eating a salad. The second thing bad about this college is the weekends are pretty boring if you stay on campus. Unless you have a car and can drive to Jackson, the weekends for most students are spent doing homework or watching movies with friends.

Once in awhile a professor will give a student grades based on their thoughts rather than on their actual work. The grading is sometimes too subjective and needs to have higher, more set, standards.

The worst thing about my school is the lack of job placement assistance and the opportunity to have professionals from a variety of careers to come and lecture at my school.

I consider the worst thing about my school to be the cost. Spring Arbor is very expensive. However, different amounts of scholarships are given out depending on your high school GPA and ACT score. Because of this, even if a student does not have much money, Spring Arbor is affordable.

I can honestly say that the worst thing about Spring Arbor University is the food that is provided in the Dining Commons. It is usually either over-cooked or not cooked enough. I often feel like I am eating a microwave dinner instead of food that provides all of the nutrition I need.

The worst thing about Spring Arbor University is that it is newly accredited, and so some of the academic programs have not been well-established. The professors in these programs do an excellent job in teaching, but because some of these programs are so new, it poses challenges to the students. Some worry whether the degree from Spring Arbor can compete with a degree from a school that has a long history of academic excellence, like some of the public universities in Michigan.

There are several classes only offered every other year or every three years. This doesn't leave much flexibility in one's 4-year plan. Because we're such a small school, there aren't many professors to teach more than one section of something, and it's frustrating when your schedule is so difficult to plan. Sometimes you have to give up classes you're interested in just so you can meet the requirements for your major.

I feel as though I would have liked to have been able to make more of my own choices, rather than being told by the university how to do things. The not being able to live off campus until a certain age really hurt me financially.

The worst thing about Spring Arbor University is how expensive it is to attend the university. I consider this to be the worst thing because there are many students whom are not able to return year after year due to the high price tag of the University's education. It is not easy for people to be educated when they have to worry about how much money they owe to the school and if they have enough money to come back the next semester to finish classes. This becomes a distraction and hinders an individual's ability to learn.

I would say the tuition cost is the worst thing, because I live on my own and have a hard time paying for school and supporting myself!

The worse thing about Spring Arbor University is it's lack in diversity. As much as SAU tries to raise student awareness of other cultures and different perspectives, that is really hard to do unless you actually have a multi-cultural campus, filled with people from all over the world. I am a missionary kid from Kenya, and for me, the worst thing about Spring Arbor University is the lack of different people with different perspectives.