Colorado State University-Fort Collins Top Questions

What are the academics like at Colorado State University-Fort Collins?

Carlos

One thing that I love about the college of business is that it always feel like home, for the most part, all professors talk to us by our names and they are very friendly and they are always willing ot help us. As an Accounting major, I think the Accounting department is great, professors are very knowledgeable and friendly. The knowledge and experience that I have gained at CSU has been unvaluable, I recently got an internship with one of the big four accounting firms in the world.

Vance

A professor knowing your name does not hold accountability on the professor, it is your responsibility as a student to make yourself noticed. While we do have the 300 student lecture halls, there are very personal classes with as few as 10 students at a time. These classes dont reflect on how much studying is involved either. Engineering has much more studying involved than say, construction management [CM]. CM is a great program with knowledgeable and first hand experienced professors. The program has 100{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} job placement and you leave CSU ready to work in any aspect of the title.

Tate

Professors know our names, but they don't give us the grades that we deserve. CSU also have a high expectation for the open option students which frustrade them.

Kayley

I know all of my professors name's because I am alwasy going in to make up material. My favorite class right now would be speech because the teacher has built a sense of community and I have meet some amazing people that I will continue to be friends with throughout my life. I believe students are competitive but yet want to help others during their spare time. The most unique class I have taken has to be oceanography. I am majoring in Business and the business school here is amzing. People from across the globe are coming to go to the business school. It is very hard to get into and excepts it's students to carry a high GPA in order to graduate. I believe CSU's academic requirements are very fair and acceptable. The number of business graduate's who graduate and then get a job within the next couple months is extremely large. CSU is creating students who want a careeer not just a job.

Amanda

My professors do not know my name, my favorite class is anything in my major, no math though. Students are competitive and my major is business so you see that more and more in that area of study.

Reese

Academia is pretty good. It is very competitive in my major but I like that. Once the classess get smaller the focus on students is great.

rachel

Especially in upper-level classes, professors do know your name. Students probably study 9-12 hours per week. There's a fairly even balance between the education being geared toward getting a job and just learning. There are always extra career related activities outside of the classroom to aide you in the career-search.

Sarah

I think that getting the perfect professor/ class is a hit or miss. The worst part of the academics is that CSU still uses the minus scale which I think is rediculous.

Chelsea

The only professors that know my name are my classes of twenty-five or less, unless you make the extra effort o go and visit your profesor after school. My favorite class is my Design class and my least favorite is Western Civilization. My major is in Apparel and Merchandising, I am more on the merchandising end. I don't spend any time with my teachers outside of class unless I go in to their offcie hours.

Jesse

For some reason there is this ongoing feud with the Business Department and the Engineering Deptartment, like engineers think business is a joke and ridiculously easy.