University of Delaware Top Questions

My passion has always been for Entomology. Very few schools on the east coast offer Entomology as a major or minor. The University of Delaware puts alot of emphasis on its Agricultural School, and allows me to study what I want with many study abroad and research opportunities right away. The school itself is large, but you get the 'small school feel' from the Agricultural School coupled with the campus as a whole which allows you to integrate with people from all different majors and areas of study.

Its a pretty big school so I meet all kinds of people. A ot of colleges are described as high school part two. Delaware is not like that, there are too many students to have that kind of vibe. However, its not huge so my classes are a pretty reasonable size. The majority of my classes are about 35 kids.

This school is a bigger school and the academics here are top notch accredited programs. The atmosphere is large school at the same time a small school atmosphere.

Students at this school place heavy emphasis on courses and doing well. But on the weekends most people like going out to parties or bars. Off campus and on campus are pretty much all the same area so you never have to walk far. The town is suburban and you can go shopping, out to eat, out to bars, etc. all on one street within minutes of your door. That is one of the biggest advantages because you don't need a car. Philadelphia is only 45 minutes away and NYC is about two hours, so travel is easy.

Compared to other schools that I know of, the University of Delaware has many strong Resident Student Organizations (RSOs) that are active all year round and want to positively impact our communities. We are not too big, not too small in school size and make up almost the whole city of Newark. Football and other athletics is very powerful here, but two things that I've enjoyed about my school the most so far include the brand new Laird campus; which looks like it's for royalty and my many opportunies as an intern and undergraduate researcher.

UD had the nicest campus of all the schools I looked at. The majority of main campus is green space and there is never a day (even in rain) where people cannot be found reading under a tree, playing frisbee or football. It's a very dynamic campus that seems to have a life of it's own.

What's unique about the University of Delaware is that unlike most schools today that only off a set curriculum based on your major, you are able to build up your major yourself by having a wide variety of classes that best suit the individual. This allows students to graduate with skills that are unique to one another, and as a result graduates from this school offer even more skills to use within their field than those who only had a set degree process. This makes University of Delaware students have an advantage over other graduates.

I transferred here only for the physical therapy department, which is great. I came from a small liberal arts school which overall provided a much better academic and growing experience/

Current student talks about why he picked UD. He also talks about the sports activities he is involved in at Delaware.

Student says he came to UD for its engineering program. He also discusses social life.