Connecticut College Top Questions

Professors definitely know your name and are often very willing to help you academically and even personally. I think the academics are the best part about this college. Students are not competitive which is great, and many students are very intelligent. I think Conn's academic reqs are fair and are very easy to fulfill. Education at conn is definitely geared towards learning for its own sake.

Hard as you want to make it. You can glide through without getting a C but its tough to make straight A's

I think the academics are amazing at this school. Classes are challenging, teachers force you to think outside the box, and i've never felt that a course was so easy there was no point in attending it. Teachers really get to know their teachers, and i feel i've developed friendships with them, and if i was to do bad in their class, it would almost be a personal offense to them. Not that that's how they look at it, but they definitely have a pull in how well one does in their class. I also feel they WANT their kids to do well, they aren't purposefully making things hard or failing kids because they have vendettas, which is what i've heard in many other schools.

Professors know me. My bio professor first semester, in the intro bio class, knew he would have trouble learning our names, so he took pictures of us in our labs and studied them like notecards. In my intro chem class of 80, my chem professor gets our tests back the day after we take them.

Conn has amazing academic opportunities. During my freshmen fall, one of my professors wrote a grant to take our class to Puerto Rico to study bioluminescent organisms for a week. The trip was completely funded and we were able to experience first hand what wwe had studied in the classroom the whole year. I am a junior now, and every semester I have grown closer with my professors. Professors here are very intsturmental in engaging students with the class material. Professors get to know students; whether your class has 90 students or 6, your professor will know your name and your academic habits. It is not uncommon to go to a profesor's house for dinner or babysit their kids or meet up with them after class. Some of my professors at Conn have been the most influencial people and have inspired me to change the way I think and approach issues. Some of my classes have been so interesting that I have changed my summer work plans to more closely reflect the material we learned in class.

Really depends on your course of study. However every professor is challenging and you will learn which courses to take and which not to.

the sciene department is fabulous, the classes are great and the professors are very helpful, i have also been on two trips to tropical places with my classes which is just awesome, i also love the honor code and the fact that we can take our finals whenever we want, it makes the whole process a lot less stressful

professors very accessible and knowledgable about their field, interesting and engaging classes - ethics particularly; able to have intellectual conversations with my friends about class material and current events; requirements seem fair; conn education definitely oriented toward a career (CELS program)

Connecticut College is a melting pot of academics. Some departments, such as english, have very strong professors across the board and provide great opportunities. Smaller majors, which attract less students, are underfunded (even though we pay 50K a year) and the professors are hit or miss. My favorite classes have all been ones in which I really felt like i was getting my money's worth, professors that are stimulating and highly intelligent always have better classes regardless of the subject. My least favorite classes have mostly been economics classes where I was not challenged at all and mostly have felt I could have taught better than some of the professors. Students are not really competitive and mostly support each other, group work is common and encouraged in most majors. Conn is small enough that most of the time you can have strong relationships with professors in and outside of the classroom. Having good relationships with professors is key to really learning in my opinion so this is something Conn has in it's favor. My experience at Conn has been geared towards learning and not real world application.

I am pretty sure that all of my professor's know me by my first name. My favorite class so far was my freshman seminar called "Environmental Challenges in the Politically Developing World." This was a very fun class because it was taught by a great professor and we learned about third world countries and what it would take for them to catch up to the level of first world countries without harming the planet. Students are not very competitive but they are very diligent and they know when it is time to work and when it is time to play. I feel that Conn's academic requirements are very stringent and annoyingly un-flexible.