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.