The University of Texas at El Paso Top Questions

The worst thing about my college is knowing that one day it will come to end. From that day i would have to hope that all the people i've meet, experiences i've had and information I have learned will be enough to fill my dreams for future. I am sure if i keep in the right my school will provide every thing I need to succed.

Although my school offers cultural diversity, and a nationally recognized education, one of its biggest flaws is the fact that it is considered a commuter school. The university fails to attract people living outside of a 100 mile radius of El Paso. Although it may be culturally diverse, it certainly lacks a large amount of people from the rest of the country thus possibly closing doors to opportunities that other non commuting universities may offer.

The commodities; small desks, overcrowded classes.

The worst thing about UTEP is the size of some of the undergraduate classes. In many of these classes there are sometimes up to 200 students. This makes it difficult to discuss things with the professors as they do not have the time to meet one on one with so many students.

Students are not committed to their goals.

I feel that there was not enough healthy meals that students got tired of eating food that was fast food places. Because there was not a standard cafeteria.

There are not enough campus wide events that would attract a wide variety of people. Without these events the campus community feels less connected.

I think they focus way too much on their engineering and business programs and don't really provide enough orientation for other educational programs.

The high prices and overall unhealthy selection of food options for lunch at the Union building, because good nutrition on a college student's budget is very important to stay energized and excell in the classroom.

The worst thing about UTEP is how people sometimes use it as their last resort, their backup. In other words, they think it's a second rate school, when in fact it has many very strong programs, including several PhD options. It is also quickly improving both its academic and extracurricular experience for its students with new renovations to campus, focus on research and further exploration of financial aid. It's actually an excellent school!

The worst thing about UTEP is that there is not enough help for students to figure out what they want to major in if they don't already know. They do have career counseling and career fairs, but nobody ever gave me some very useful advice that I know now, which is to take classes on anything that I may be interested in majoring in, even if I "waste" a semester, it's truly not a waste because that would have helped me to narrow down my interests sooner.

The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) is a very good school. UTEP knows exactly what the student needs are to achive their goals. They have kept in mind that many student do not have transportation, UTEP is working with sun metro to have bus routes directly to UTEP. This will really help the students that come from Mexico and the students that live far from UTEP. Also UTEP is working on having a small school on the other side of town for those student that live far from UTEP. UTEP really worries for their students.

The worst thing about the school is the open campus that allows cars into the university, which is a hassle when walking around campus. Fortunately, the university is in the process of closing off the campus to traffic, making it safer for students to walk around safely.

The worst thing about the University of Texas at El Paso is that it overlooks a delapidated part of Juarez, Mexico. The campus itself is a beautiful compilation of structures patterned in the Bhutanese style of archetecture. However, the southern view overlooking the valley, although panoramic, gives one a pang of helplessness because the neighboring city accross the border demonstrates that poverty runs rampant in our lovely southwesrn community.

What I consider the worst thing about school is the amount of parking spaces there are on campus. We have only 9800 parking spots and over 22,000 students. We have to walk long distances everyday just to get where we are located and as someone who attends the University and works there as well, it is difficult.

Every semester we need to be advised and going from office to office feels like you are getting the "run around." Although you begin the semester getting holds lifted from each department so that you can register, it helps in getting organized to have a clear plan in place.

The worst thing about the University of Texas at el Paso is the lack of driven mindsets from students. One-third of the student population are not academically responsible in my opinion.

The worst thing about my school, for me are the 200 or so student capacity classes that are needed for your major. Not only are they huge classes but also since they can hold a lot of students there is usually only one to chose from and they are usually in the morning. Yet this response is only based on me since I'm not a morning person and I don't like attending huge classes because it is very distracting to me. Other than those required classes my school is wonderful.

The worst thing about my current school is the limitations of the colleges you can not study a liberal arts career with a science career, they limit by putting too much pressure. They do not , in fact, think of all the career posibilities a student can get if they have such a broad education, specially such as Psychology and Biology or Biology and Mechanical engineering.

Sometimes communication with some of the office like financial aid is hard.