University of Central Florida Top Questions

Scehduling is a problem for a lot of students. The people who make the course catalogues do not listen to the faculty when the faculty states that certain courses should/should not be a prerequisite for another course in that particular degree program. I feel that it is detrimental to students when the advisors do not correct the course catalogue and thus any plan the student may have goes out the window because it is not possible due to errors in the catalogue that were never corrected.

The most frustrating thing is registering for classes

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The most frustrating thing about my school is how large classes are.

The most frustrating thing about my school would have to be the location. It is necessary to have a car if one would like to go anywhere off campus. It seems like everything is far from campus.

Not having enough financial aid.

The administrative offices. There's high turnovers of staff, so often they don't know which departments handle what, and won't be of much help if your circumstances are unusual or outside of the normal student load for them. Registration/course information for the next semesters aren't posted as early as the local colleges post theirs! It makes planning difficult. Professors tend to change the required books for the courses at last minute -completely ruins any planning efforts.

It is very large so most of the lecture classes constiture more than 100 students and there is not much student teacher interaction. Parking can be a problem as well.

The most frustrating thing the University of Central Florida is the amount of people that go here. The parking lots and parking garages are like jungles when you are trying to find parking. I have spent more than an hour many times trying to find a parking spot. If you are a student here, make sure you give yourself like an hour and a half to find parking. You will need it!

Typically transfer problems, you may have to fight for certain credits to be transferred. I hightly recommend having a copy of all your courses' syllabi. You will probably encounter the bottleneck problem. The university requires certain classes to be taken first before they will allow you to take other classes. This may cause problems for students who have to be full-time for finanical reasons.