Brigham Young University-Provo Top Questions

The G.E. classes are enormous. There is no way that the professors will know your name unless you pester them. Other classes tend to be smaller, ranging from 26 to 13 people. BYU offers very good languages courses, as well as home and family living courses. The most unique class I have taken is a clothing construction class. The education at BYU is geared more torwards learning for its own sake.

Study groups are common. Really, all of the professors and TA's are eager to help! The classes are interesting, and you learn a lot. It is rigorous, but doable. It will give you good standing for a job later.

Its all good. This school is competitive and therefore lends itself perfectly to lots of smart people working hard to get a good education. So far I have loved all my professors. Some of my favorite classes have been Anthropology and Humanities but BYU has the best Business College in the nation. Its the best. BYU is a great school to get a good education.

Do professors know my name? Ha! good joke, count yourself lucky if they ever say hello in person. They are very smart yet not very personal. I've become accustomed to the fact yet it would be nice to have someone other than the religion professors be friendly. Yes there are intellectual conversations outside classes and people are intelligent overall. The classes and students are super competitive. It's very sink or swim here. I work on campus so that is where I spend most of my time. The professors are very willing to meet with you during office ours. That is a very nice part about it.

Double edged sword.....crazy good teachers most of the time, but classes are usually huge until upper level classes. My favorite classes have been the religion classes that are discussion based, and my major classes that provide hands on experience - feels less like school. Students at BYU are super competitive.....too competitive in my opinion. By the same token, BYU is home to a lot of intelligent kids that do amazing things. The communications department is great, especially in the advertising emphasis.....opportunites galore. I've worked on projects for real clients, the coolest being Nike iD.

Most professors do not know your name because of the vast number of students that they teach, however there are the exceptions to the rule. I have never spent time with a professor outside of class. I feel that my education was not geared toward getting a job, but rather at learning for the sake of learning. My least favorite classes were the GE's that were required. The classes were really large and it was hard to get to know other students in the class. If you did get to know them, you didn't see them in any other of your classes.

I transferred from another university in Utah where I got A's doing nothing really outside of class. BYU is very demanding. Lots of reading and writing assignments. Astronomy in the planetarium rocks.

Students are very competitive. I have noticed this mostly in the business school, however. When I took my GE's I didn't think many of the students were competititve.

The classes are really hard and lots of studying is required to get a good grade. My favorite class so far was my world religion class. Students are very competitive. Professors are very friendly and willing to help students get good grades.

the most unique class i've taken is wilderness writing. it's 2 classes together, one english class and one from the rec department. there were like 15 people in class, and for the english class everybody just wrote personal essays and then we spent a day workshopping everyone's essay at some point during the semester. for the rec class, we went hiking, backpacking, canoeing, rock climbing, and had dutch oven cookoffs. it was a really amazing class because you got to know everyone really well through the activities, but also on a different level through reading their essays. most of us found ourselves writing things we wouldn't tell our families, friends or roommates. it was also just a good excuse to do fun things outside, like sleep under the stars.