Temple University Top Questions

the area may get scary at nighttimes.

Maybe a little larger than some may want.

north philadelphia

The worst thing about Temple is the absence of real work opportunity and faculty assistance in networking. I followed up after my first year with the head of my department and tried to network with her for jobs and prospective opportunities and she gave me the advice of working for Habitat for Humanity, while I work a basic nine to five in order to afford schooling. It does not work, you pay H4H money in order to work for free in these times its bogus.

The social life is so great that sometimes it is hard to focus on your academics.

The university needs to do a better job of checking up on some of the professors. Some professors dont speak english very well or have aged so much that they can no longer teach the class effectively or understand the questions they are asked. If a professor teaches a class poorly and fails students, there is nothing a student can do about their grade apart from taking the class again with another professor.

The worst thing about my school is that the surrounding off-campus parts of the school are unsafe, which like I said before is very unfortunate. I expierence that first hand, as I lived in an off-campus house and my friends and I were robbed at gunpoint. The whole expierece was very frightening, I hope no one ever expierences what my friends and I did. It is unfortuante that college students who are there to get an education have to be 100 percent aware of their surroundings once they venture off-campus becauase it's not safe off-campus.

The worst part about my school is the size. Some of the classes have hundreds of kids which makes it harder to learn and easier to skip class. Also, since it is such a well known school, the curriculum is hard...and it keeps getting harder.

The surrounding neighborhood has a very high crime rate and violence is prevalent.

The school is right in the middle of the city so it is hard to have a sense of school spirit because your located in a major city with about 10 other schools located in the same area.