Eastern Illinois University Top Questions

My classmates are fun, looking for a good education, open to meeting and becoming friends with new people, and, finally, mostly open to new ideas.

They are friendly and willing to help each other through difficult classes.

Easy to talk too.. very helpful.. intertaining

My classmates are friendly and willing to help out.

Fun, easygoing, helpful people

They are really awesome and definately care for each other.

While many students don't seem to care about school, there is a decent percentage with a genuine interest in academics, but the majority of my classmates are very friendly.

Students are EIU are friendly and open-minded.

My classmates are fun and hard working. Most are taking their education very seriously and using EIU as a stepping stone to achieve their career goals.

My classmate are very ethnically diverse, which I am not use to. Growing up, my town was very white dominant. While many people are study and goal oriented, of course there are students who slack off and are more socially minded. We have partiers at Eastern Illinois, but we also have students that are muscially, athletically, or academically talented. There is a good mix of every kind of "stereotype", and many organizations and sports that one can get into.