Arizona State University-Tempe Top Questions

During my undergraduate career at Arizona State University I would have to say that the worst aspect was adjusting to the sheer size of the school. According to the US Department of Education, ASU currently has 58,371 students enrolled which makes it the largest school in the US. Yes it can be exciting attending a school which such a large student body, however, at times you can get lost and left behind in the traffic. Given the size of the campus and the level of excitement constantly present, its uncanny how easy you can begin to feel lonely.

Very spread out and large campus - hard to feel "connected".

I think the worst thing about our school is that all kinds of people who are not attending the university are always on campus. Also our campus is extremely large, the combination of these two things make me feel unsafe at night since some attacks have occurred within the past two years I have attended there. I wish there was some way they could make it safer at night.

The confusion of going to a large school where your academic path is not always clear.

One of the worst things about the school is that it can be dirty at times. The computer labs around finals week are filthy . Another negative thing that it is a large campus and sometimes you have to walk great distances in the hot summer days and there is not enough shady trees, or shade structures to make it easier to be out in the summer days.

The worst thing about my school in my opinion is the size of the school. With more than 65,000 students attending ASU throught all 4 of the campuses, there is little time to build a relationship with professors. It is definitely possible to build relationships with a couple, but classes are generally lecture classes until you get to the upper division classes in your junior or senior years.

The worst thing about my school is that it is too crowded. Arizona State University used to have that small town feeling, but now one navigating the campus would think it is a commercialized bureaucracy. The entire campus is ran like a business and many times I feel as if I am simply an ID number rather than an actual student. Because of its large size, I find it difficult to build personal, meaningful relationships with both students and faculty at ASU. Sadly, students at ASU are not valued individually and the university is only concerned with its own benefit.

The tuition cost for an out of state resident is ridiculously high!

The only that I don't like about ASU is how much partying that goes on here, it's so frequent and I don't like to party.

The four campuses are far from each other, sometimes making traveling to classes incovenient.