Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville Top Questions

The administration process is long and sometimes frustrating.

The most frustrating aspect of my school are the tuition payments. They are very close together with some months having two tuition payments. For those students who make less than $20,000 a year, it can be very difficult and stressful to make two tuition payments in one month. I understand that the campus has to have their payments, but it would be helpful for them to spread them out a little more.

Most of the classes have big projects and exams right around the same time so your workload gets overwhelming sometimes.

We aare growing so much and we are running out of classroom space at our school.

The buildings are far away from each other. In the snow and ice storms that we get occassionally the trip from one class to another seems to take forever. There are also too many hills to compete with in the ice storms.

The amount of commuters who live nearby and only drive to class and do not partcipate .

Driving distance to the city.

The most frustrating thing at my school is the financial aid office and bursar office. Sometimes I think that they have way too many student workers and not enough people who actually know what they are doing. I've gone in there before because they dropped me from my classes and they passed me back and forth between their offices for a good half hour before I found out what the problem was.

The most frustrating thing is the academic advisors. The y have no idea what classes you need to be taking and they sign you up for the wrong ones. Now, we have to sign up online which is just a way for the advisors to do less work. We still have to make an appointment to see one and get a "password" so we can enroll online, whats the point. My suggestion is to hire advisors that know what their doing and have them sign students up for classes instead of doing it online.

the parking lots...it seems like it takes forever to walk from where i parked to the buildings.