The University of Texas at El Paso Top Questions

The worst thing about UTEP is that there is not enough help for students to figure out what they want to major in if they don't already know. They do have career counseling and career fairs, but nobody ever gave me some very useful advice that I know now, which is to take classes on anything that I may be interested in majoring in, even if I "waste" a semester, it's truly not a waste because that would have helped me to narrow down my interests sooner.

The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) is a very good school. UTEP knows exactly what the student needs are to achive their goals. They have kept in mind that many student do not have transportation, UTEP is working with sun metro to have bus routes directly to UTEP. This will really help the students that come from Mexico and the students that live far from UTEP. Also UTEP is working on having a small school on the other side of town for those student that live far from UTEP. UTEP really worries for their students.

The worst thing about the school is the open campus that allows cars into the university, which is a hassle when walking around campus. Fortunately, the university is in the process of closing off the campus to traffic, making it safer for students to walk around safely.

The worst thing about the University of Texas at El Paso is that it overlooks a delapidated part of Juarez, Mexico. The campus itself is a beautiful compilation of structures patterned in the Bhutanese style of archetecture. However, the southern view overlooking the valley, although panoramic, gives one a pang of helplessness because the neighboring city accross the border demonstrates that poverty runs rampant in our lovely southwesrn community.

What I consider the worst thing about school is the amount of parking spaces there are on campus. We have only 9800 parking spots and over 22,000 students. We have to walk long distances everyday just to get where we are located and as someone who attends the University and works there as well, it is difficult.

Every semester we need to be advised and going from office to office feels like you are getting the "run around." Although you begin the semester getting holds lifted from each department so that you can register, it helps in getting organized to have a clear plan in place.

The worst thing about the University of Texas at el Paso is the lack of driven mindsets from students. One-third of the student population are not academically responsible in my opinion.

The worst thing about my school, for me are the 200 or so student capacity classes that are needed for your major. Not only are they huge classes but also since they can hold a lot of students there is usually only one to chose from and they are usually in the morning. Yet this response is only based on me since I'm not a morning person and I don't like attending huge classes because it is very distracting to me. Other than those required classes my school is wonderful.

The worst thing about my current school is the limitations of the colleges you can not study a liberal arts career with a science career, they limit by putting too much pressure. They do not , in fact, think of all the career posibilities a student can get if they have such a broad education, specially such as Psychology and Biology or Biology and Mechanical engineering.

Sometimes communication with some of the office like financial aid is hard.