California State University-Northridge Top Questions

All my professors know my name because I am active and sit in front of the class. There are many professors that know everyone's name in the class. My favorite class is my marketing class. My professor is very intelligent. He teaches at both CSUN and UCLA and has awesome marketing knowledge and experience. My least favorite is geology just because I am not a big science person. I have taken SO many interesting classes, but a really interesting one I took my freshman year was Music in Film. I learned a lot in my class that made me appreciate the work that goes into making a film. I love my major and my department is also very helpful with guiding their students. CSUN believes in getting job experience it is a requirement in my major that I have an internship. The internship at the school is so helpful! He helped me get my internship this summer at NBCUniversal.

Education is a top priority at CSUN. Although there may be extremely difficult classes such as Organic Chemistry, there are also easier classes like History of Music (In that side note, Music 107 with Prof. Pozzi is a must!). However, students must still put equal and utmost effort in every single class. Thankfully, the university provides its students the resources and facilities to make this happen. With that being said, students can find peace, quiet, and computers in the Oviatt Library. The University Student Uniion also provides students the access to print 20 FREE pages each day. After all, CSUN is a place for higher learning. Fortunately, it is also one of the few universities where teachers actually take the time and effort to learn the names of each of their students. Instructors are also available to answer any questions outside of class during their office hours. In my specific department (College of Science and Mathematics), acquaintances are easily made, but the competition is intense. Because most students in this field plan to enter some sort of graduate school, this is not a surprise. The education at CSUN does not actually gear students toward getting job, but it prepares them for life and its obstacles. Overall, the academic system at CSUN is spectacular.

We have great professors, they know my name and their door is always open. Students always participate and are expected to so.

Once again, depends on your major. I'm a writer, and I've found all of my teachers extremely supportive, helpful, and insightful. In general though, all of the classes are relatively small which is nice. It's a lot easier to get 1-on-1 attention from teachers, and you can always find people to study with (I've only had a couple of classes with over fifty students). The library is massive and the staff are really helpful. Most of my G.E.'s haven't been very hard, and I can pretty much bull my way through most of them. However, the upper division classes will rough you up if you're not prepared for them. I'm in the Honors English program, and I have to read anywhere from 4-6 books a month, not including whatever other classes I'm taking. I have friends in physiology who were struggling at first too - but on the plus side, my classes are really small and the material is fun, and my friend in physiology got to work with real cadavers. There's definitely a lot to love here as far as academics are concerned.

California State University, Northridge is really an under-rated school. The academia is excellent and there's plenty of different environments that are conducive to studying. Most professors understand what it means to be a student and many try to learn the names of their students, or at least the ones that participate. I was just in a History lecture with Dr. Josh Sides that had about 150 students and he learned almost all of our names. Most professors understand that you have other commitments with other classes and non-school related activities. Particularly at CSUN, most students have one or two jobs and sometimes internships, and most professors are flexible with their needs. Also, professors usually are very open for people coming to them outside of class at their office hours (which is why they have them in the first place) and as you get into upper level classes, they really enjoy when you update them on your life in general and how internships and things of that nature are going. This school, along with most state schools, are more geared on getting students a real career after college verses having a purely research based environment like that of the UC system. My major in particular, journalism, is very much a hands-on learning technique because the professional world of journalism is looking for more experience rather than pure knowledge. You learn how to use cameras and editing systems, how to conduct interviews intelligently, how to write stories, and how to fully put on a newscast, among other things. Many of the other departments function in the same way, and it makes you feel much more prepared for a real job. Those hands-on "activity" courses tend to be my favorite courses. One of my most recent favorites was a reporting class where we had the chance to choose our own stories, research them, film them, edit them and present them like it would air on a real news show. I've talked with friends with the same major at other schools and most say they do not have any kind of training like that. I notice it at my internships as well, the more hands-on training, the more prepared most other interns seem to be. Most job markets, like journalism, are very competitive and experience is usually the first thing recruiters look for and CSUN definitely gives you that leg-up.

Hey, a C is passing so it's all good!

The way CSUN gathers it's professors has a less competitive edge than the University California schools, and fewer than some Cal States. The income flow of students generally range from lower to middle-class. That being said, I believe CSUN garners less intellectually motivated students compared to the UC schools and out-of-state campuses. However, diligent students can locate realms of intellectual environments and gatherings, the amount will just not be that high. Furthermore, not all professors are as intellectually spirited and must split their time between the multiple classes they are teaching due to budget cuts.

The way CSUN gathers it's professors has a less competitive edge than the University California schools, and fewer than some Cal States. The income flow of students generally range from lower to middle-class. That being said, I believe CSUN garners less intellectually motivated students compared to the UC schools and out-of-state campuses. However, diligent students can locate realms of intellectual environments and gatherings, the amount will just not be that high. Furthermore, not all professors are as intellectually spirited and must split their time between the multiple classes they are teaching due to budget cuts.

I myself am very outgoing in class, challenging the intellectual prowess of the professor, however, this is not the case for many of the students who attend CSUN.