University of Kansas Top Questions

The worst thing about my school is the size of the campus. Walking to every class is not always the option and the buses are not always on time. Some days, such as rainy ones, the buses are very crowded.

The worst thing about the University of Kansas is that they do not offer courses on important subjects like "Chicano Studies". Every college I have attended other than KU had this subject which is disappointing. I believe that leaving subjects like these out of universities lessens their diversity and cultral awareness.

The availability of the teachers and the knowledge of the advisors. The core classes to my degree (Biology, Anatomy, Physics, etc) always contained 100+ kids. Due to these large class sizes, the teachers rarely responded to emails or even had time to talk with students. If you needed answers, the teachers assistant was the only person whom you could talk with. As far as advising, I basically came up with a roadmap for my degree and had to plan out everything. If I had a question about classes, my advisor had a hard time answering.

Unless you are into sports, in a extracurricular club or are into going to bars there is little to do to meet new people outside of class. A suggestion would be to have a campus clean up or some other community service available on a monthly basis. As a campus we could even combine forces with habitat for humanity and with the turn out we could do some amazing things. Many degrees and scholarships require involvement in the community from the student and there is little involvement with community service unless you belong to an extracurricular club.

on the way to classes; classes are streched far across campus so it's hard to get to class on time. KU has a bus system but it's so confusing that you are better off walking to class. You would think KU would hae a lot of money to get a decent bus system

The worst thing about my school is the segregation of each major. Every major only associates with other people of that major.

It is a vary liberal campus and school in general, and if you do not fall into that category, you are sometimes ostricised for being conservative, or anything different. I sometimes felt judged and shamed for what I thought or believed and even at times had to defend my thinking to my professors.

So far I have LOVED my school. The only negative thing I have encountered was my ECON 144 class where the Teacher's Aide did not speak very good English so it was difficult to uderstand him. They also do not have a good "list of tutors by subject" available anywhere that I could find.

I think the worst thing about this school is that you have to constantly check on things you need done. For example, if you need a grade from your professor and you ask, and a couple of weeks later you do not hear anything so you ask again and then eventually you just give up because it is more of a hassle then it really had to be.

One of the things I really did not like about the school was the lack of dinning choices. I wish they had more sandwhich and healthy hot meal choices. However, the bus system is really great and there is a lot of places in town.