University of Arizona Top Questions

My department (the Psychology department) is so crowded and overwhelemed that it is very difficult to gain admission into classes. There are long waiting lists and there is no priority registration for upperclass students.

The most frustrating thing about the University of Arizona is that books are way over-priced. Sometimes they can run up to $1000 each semester which is simply ridiculous!

My complaints about this school are not many, but they are worth consideration. The difficulty of acquiring administrative information is ridiculous, primarily because it seems to change each time that one calls and/or speaks to a different person. Secondly, the amount of funding cuts that the university has endured are quite frankly alarming, including those still to come. Lastly, the Cat tran which I pay to ride from campus to my car (at a school owned lot off-campus) ceases daily service before my last class gets out this semester.

The room temperatures. It's waaaay too cold in the rooms in the summer, so I have to carry around a jacket. In Arizona. In the summer. It's ridiculous.

Some teachers that I have had in past classes are very subjective to their opinions and will only give good grades to those you follow reinforce their opinions in papers, homeworks, etc. Some teachers punish difference in opinion by giving lower grades believing that their opinions and their teachings are the correct ones.

The most frustrating aspect of the University of Arizona is the the bookstore online book orders. The bookstore provides an option to buy new or used. However, upon arrival at the bookstore to pick up your books, some of them are missing. If the bookstore runs out of used copies they will automatically give you a new copy, and charge you the price of the new copy. If they run out of new copies then they will simply not provide you with that book! The problem is that they don't tell you which books they didn't give you!

I have to say the most frustrating parts about campus would be that most of the pricing is over priced and also the limited amount of parking and how much that costs. I understand the need to charge and that since most students can only shop on campus and since they have the supply and we demand it that they can raise those prices but already paying so much just to attend the University should mean lower prices.

The cost of tuition keeps rising and budget cuts keep increasing!

The use of tuition money. It is ike we pay the total research cost for instructors and proffesors because it seems like that is all they care about. I agree research is fairly important to help our society, but I also think that if we don't get taught in the right way and if we can't get help from our instructors during their office hours because they are so busy thinking about their research, then how are we going to be able to help out our community. Also the lack of different class time offerings.

My University is geared mostly towards students right out of high school so services for older returning students, especially those with children like myself, are extremely limited making it more difficult to attend if one has unique responsibilities outside of school.