Michael
Academics here are what you make of them. There are many different major and minor degrees offered here. The quality of the programs range anywhere from decent, to outstanding. This is a very big University, so you have to deal with all the academic pains associated with it. Scheduling is a pain, your advisors are spread to thin, you have to take initiative for your academic success yourself. Ohio is a terrible place for people not willing to do thier work. My undergraduate advisors were completely worthless, they did not have time for the individual as they themselves were overworked.
annie
I feel like most of my classes are twenty five people or less which i really enjoy because you and the professor are able to communicate on a personal level. The larger lecture classes are not bad, but there is not personal communication which can make getting help a little bit more difficult. I find SI sessions very helpful though. Most teachers make an effort to help students outside of class and utualize the office hours given. i think that the requirements needed are appropriate and most of them are helpful for majors.
Emily
The Tier II classes at Ohio can be cumbersome, but I like how it makes us explore fields of study that we may not know. This can open the door for other majors and careers that we had no idea was out there. I was an undecided freshman fall quarter. I declared a major at the end of fall quarter, so I had to change my adviser. I was sad that I had to but I still keep in contact with her and we get coffee every once in a while to catch up. Some professors you get close to and others you don't. It just depends on their personality and your willingness to approach them and ask for help.
Pat
The Professors are very nice and very friendly!
Elisse
Something that shocked me when i came here was the amount of studying i see people doing, and how necessary it is. A lot of the classes i take are French classes since it's my major, and those classes are all small enough that you have a lot of discussion and participation, and you form close bonds with some of the professors. In the larger lecture classes, a professor hardly ever knows you personally, but its good to take the time to go to their office hours and meet them on a personal level. They really are helpful and most of them want to meet you and have a conversation with you. I think the requirements for all majors here give a well-rounded education.
Rob
Having spent some time at other institutions, I'd say the students here tend to be more cooperative than competitive. Like any large institution, there are going to be those 101 classes with 200+ people in them where the prof. likely won't know your name, but with some of the more manageable class sizes profs. are friendly and more than willing to get to know students who take the initiative.
Josh
I've been in a lot of bigger classes in which the professors do not know my name. Some of the classes for my major, however, are a lot smaller. There, the professors know my same more frequently. Scripps School of Journalism is a very good program here. It is always ranked nationally in the top ten of journalism schools in the nation. It's very hands-on.
Tate
I can only speak about engineering stuff, it's what I do, it's all I care about (I'm mechanical by the way).
I've heard repeated from several people scattered around at several schools that the 4 best engineering colleges in Ohio are: OSU, Wright State, Ohio University, and Ohio Northern. I've seen all 4, all but Ohio Northern I've spent more than just the geriatric walk and point at. I'm going to pick on OSU here because I've sat through many classes with a friend up there. They're not joking when they say giant lecture halls, a normal lecture there is in a class larger than all but 2 or so rooms on campus here at OU (we also don't do what lecture and recitation thing, there is just class, 4 days a week). The biggest classes I've ever had here were general phys and chem at about 120 each.
Yes you do have to take and ungodly about of math and sciences, but thats just what has to happen. Once that is over you're engineering classes are very small. Most rooms in the engineering building only hold 35ish. Only professors teach, non of that TA crap, that goes for all the classes I've taken (6 quarters now)