Emerson College Top Questions

Emerson is different from other schools in that it is a very professionally driven school. From day 1, students are trying to learn everything that they can to get a leg up over everyone else, and it can be very competitive, but it is still a great environment and school where you will have a lot of fun, not only outside of class but in it as well. Almost all of my professors know my name, which is impressive considering some of those classes had 50 or 60 students in them. Class discussions happen very frequently in some classes, and rarely in other classes, that mostly depends on the professor and the curriculum for the class. Emerson's requirements tend to be very lenient, most people can waive out of their math and language requirements, and it is pretty easy to waive out of most of the other requirements as well since you can get credit with a score of 3 on any AP test. The other required classes tend to be interesting and helpful in your specific major. Emerson's classes are all geared towards getting out and getting a job just like everything else done at Emerson. There are programs designed to teach networking skills, classes geared towards making a show in a real world environment, and even classes on how to manage people and take a leadership role.

Sophomore year, I was walking to the Tufte building when I saw my African Civ. professor from freshman year. He smiled to me and said hello, which was not only great because I used to have a crush on him along with half the people in that class (girls and boys), but also because he could remember my face a year later. The same professor's class was also one of the most eye-opening classes I've ever taken, and even though it's the only C I've gotten at Emerson so far, it was still a great class.

A lot of people come to Emerson because of its unique sense of self. It is definitely for the independent minded individual. It is good to know what you want to do before coming here because it is very career focused. It is not a good school to come to if you plan on declaring "undecided" as your major. The classes are small and personalized and for the most part are challenging to the above average student. It is a very liberal arts based curriculum and many of the teachers are fairly alternative themselves, but all highly competent from my experience. Also, the job placement rates for Emerson are very high and I've heard the career services department is very good.

Hit or miss with Professors. General Education requirements are just as engaging as any other liberal arts school, with occasional extra flair because the professor is a real industry success. You can benefit from a lot of hands on experience and learning at this school however, more so than at others.

My largest class this year was 90 people and my teacher knew everyone's name. My friends go to schools where they can be in 40 person classes and the teachers don't seem to care who you are. I was struggling in my 90 person class and went to meet with the professor and he immediately knew my name, where I was struggling, and my recent test evaluations. The classes here are really different though. Don't expect much testing and that kind of thing in your major classes, instead they seemed to be focused around projects whether it's making a movie for a production class or doing your final project for research writing. That's the other thing, writing. This is a communications school and you will see a lot of papers. However the work has never been overly difficult. Instead, it just takes alot of time. For instance, in one class you may see that you have to take a final test that you will spend maybe an hour or two studying for and half an hour completing it and still get an A as opposed to another class where it may take 4 hours to shoot footage, 3 hours to edit it, 2 hours to prepare it etc. and you still might not even get an A. This school is 100{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} committed to preparing it's students for the real world in whatever field you might be interested in through internships, real life production training classes, and your gen eds.

Emerson has really good major programs with relatively small class sizes, where tutor do know your name. unlike larger campuses where you become a face in the crowd. the actual in class work is not as helpful as the extracurriculars where you get real hands on experience.

Emerson has awesome hands on clsses. The people teaching you are real people in the businesses that you are learning about. Papers and projects are huge here, where as tests don't come around that often. Students here are really outspoken and often find themselves talking about crazy topics in and outside of the class...very controversial. Emerson doesn't make you take many gen eds, they get you into your major freshmen year which is awesome. Alot of the majors intermingle, with marketing students working with the film and audio kids to help them promote their movies or television shows. The musical theater and acting kids are kind of in their own community, as well as communication disorder majors kind of blend in.

The academics are generally not too demanding. Students mostly learn about their majors from participating in outside the classroom projects.

In the academic aspect, Emerson has a student - profesor relationship since classes are relatiely small. My biggest class is 30 people. I like all of my classes cause we are all friends and help each other out. I feel Emerson has a very good curriculum in communications and the profesors are very well prepared and know what they are teaching about and always willing to help the student

I am in the library every night but other friends have minimal homework. The students are very intellectual and we all have stimulating conversations. Emerson's G.E's are also amazing and its easy to get out of math!