University of Arizona Top Questions

The worst thing about my school is parking on campus. THe reason why its the worst thing about my school is because parking is expensive and if you want to park on campus you have to pay huge amounts of money to get a parking permit.

The ideological bent of the faculty. I know this is an American university so I should have expected it, but I'm perpetually amazed how forceful and biased professors are, and how intolerant of dissenting views. If you're gonna to disagree, it's possible that you will be punished with a bad grade- go to the professor and insist on an explanation and they'll immediately cave.

Unfortunatly I do believe that the average class size at UofA is far too large. With recent budget cuts for education in the State of Arizona, the University has had to expand class sizes even more in recent years. I feel strongly that great education requires small class sizes. That said, I do think that UofA manages as best they can with current State funding.

One of the worst things about the University of Arizona is that there are so many students that for your first couple weeks of school it can become very overwhelming. It takes awhile to really get yourself familiar with the campus and your routine. By far the worst thing about the University of Arizona is it's limited parking spaces.

Historically, Arizona taxpayers have not considered education their top priority. Because of this, Arizona universities have met their budgets by increasing tuition costs. When I enrolled at UA as an undergraduate in 2002, resident tuition was under $2,000/semester. Each year of my undergraduate career, the Board of Regeants passed a tuition hike, and undergraduate tuition came to $3,500/semester at the time of my graduation in 2007. Now, as a graduate student at the UA, I struggle to cover the higher tuition costs in order to get an education I can use to serve my community.

I would consider the worst this about my school is the large classes. My school is low on money therefore the class sized have to increase in order for students to get the class they want. I had a class this past semester that had almost 1200 students. I was dificult to get feedback from the professor and also we had to take our quizzes and exams on a projector which was not fair to most because we all work at different paces.

Financial problems are causing distractions for the students worried about how they will afford their education if there are any more cuts.

The worst is probably that some teachers that have accents are harder to understand.

The campus is beautiful but large and when its 110 degrees outside and your walking from the Harvill building to the main library you get kind of sweaty. Do not worry the library is always freezing!

Administrative support of students. I didn't get much help my freshman year in education of what is expected as a student. It seems that your automatically supposed to know how to survive in a college environment. Also, when I went in for some advising, the woman was cold and rude, by the end of the session I was in tears because she pretty much told me my struggles were all my fault and that I have already ruined my future.