University of Maryland-College Park Top Questions

Crime, campus and off-campus crime is not managed well.

The customer service at the dining facilities and food court is poor. It is rude to assume that just because we are college kids, we don't care about customer service. The opposite is true.

There is not a lot of support for students who live off-campus and commute.

The teachers. I have had, perhaps, bad luck with teachers. Usually, every semester half of my teachers are terrible, as in they dont know how to teach, they don't have an organized plan for the semester, and they are not engaging at all. I have reported many teachers to the heads of their department, he has been helpful most of the time. I just don't understand how so many terrible teachers get 10 yeared at this school, it is beyond me.

The huge lecture halls for gen ed classes.

I really can't think of anything bad about the University of Maryland. University of Maryland has given me so many oppurtuines in my field of interest. I am very fortunate to be a student here.

A combination of the dining hall services (which have improved since I have moved off-campus) and the relatively mediocre quality of the downtown area. The downtown isn't what one would call classy, but this is to be expected in a college town. The nice thing is that both Washington, D.C. and Baltimore are easily accessible to those who prefer to spend their time in larger cities.

The worst thing abot my school is the class size in some of the lecture halls. This prevents the professor from truly knowing his/her students.

There are a lot of people you run into that you know from high school or who you have seen around. This is because it is a state school.

The area it is in; the area has a high crime rate.

huge classes

The university that I attend is filled with students who love to party. Partying is a big thing at my university for most students. I often times have trouble sleeping at night because of students who attend late night parties and roam around the campus yelling and playing around between the hours of 12am and 4am. Also, students both on and off campus are likely to be robbed at night by muggers from off campus. Criminal activity is common.

I think the worst thing about our school is the lack of transportation during the winter months when it gets so cold, students do not feel like walking to class (because the campus itself is pretty big.) If students had the resource of shuttles from 8 am to 4 pm, i believe one would see a drastic incline in the amount of students who show up to class.

The worst thign about this school is that students are considered a number which is typical of schools this size.

The class sizes, the language classes are simply too large to reach maximum efficiency.

There are many good things, but it is very apparent that there are some profit-drive motives.

The frat-life. There is a lot of partying and drinking all over campus. If that's not your thing, you still can't get away from it.

The worst thing about my school is the location. It is in Prince George's County which is one of the most dangerous counties in Maryland. I often worry when walking home alone because there is a lot of crime in the area. I have already heard of many people getting mugged and places getting robbed. I wish that I could feel safe when walking alone. However, the school does do a good job of providing transportation so I don't mind it too much.

Class sizes. As a student in two popular major programs most of my classes were in large lecture halls, it made it hard to get to know the professors, other classmates. Some classes were offered with the convience of a discussion group, but these were often handled by graduate students some of whom did not have a firm grasp of the material being taught

I don't like the traffic on the way there!, because it is so time-consuming!