University of North Dakota Top Questions

As a freshman, you'll probably take a lot of huge lecture classes (huge ~100ppl) where noone knows your name. But once you get into some smaller classes and more focused on your major the professors will know your name and be quite willing to help.

Academics are a joke, the classes are about a highschool level and the vast majority of professors don't care who you are or about your success in the least.

We are very versatile with different academic groups. Not only does UND provide many majors, but we are well known for many. Even though we are known as a huge aviation school, we succeed in other dimensions of academics as well; such as business, engineering, nursing, and so on. Some professors are good and some are bad. It is amazing how much the professor effects your grade and how much you learn. Ask around for what professors to get, it is extremely important.

At UND, students take academics seriously...but not TOO seriously. We study, we learn, and we ponder the greater meanings of life, but we also know when to put down the books and have fun. UND prides itself in being a "research" university, so there are the opportunities for interested students to become more serious about their schoolwork and advancing their career opportunities. Professors are easily accessable and resonable to work with (for the most part). No professor is perfect, but UND offers ways for students to provide anonymous feedback to the departments and the professors themselves. Once you get beyond your general classes, class sizes are small...the average class size is only 28 students. Even the largest lecture bowls aren't that large. The biggest classroom on campus holds about 240 people.

The faculty at this school know what they are talking about. You get a great education at this school and you can guarentee that you will learn life skills both in and out of the classroom that you will use for the rest of your life.

After a year of classes I will say....to only take as many big lecture hall classes as you need. If it's at all possible to take smaller classes, do it. You get lost in the lecture halls and it's also difficult to pay attention. In the smaller classes, say 15-25 people, it's much more personable.

Some professors know your name here. If you are in a big lecture class, chances are they wont know your name but some do. My all time favorite class here is Anatomy. In lab we have real human bodies to work with and I think that is way more beneficial than working on animals when your job will be working with humans. I am currently taking courses towards getting into the nursing program. this is a very competitive major. We have to apply and get accepted into the program based on certain criteria. I think UND's academic requirements are very resonable and attainable.

I had no problems, classes are fairly easy and most of the professors are cool.

I think the education at UND is pretty good. There aren't many problems that I can think of. Based on what I've seen, courses are designed to prepare you for the workforce, which I think is important.

The worst class I have ever taken at UND so far is Western Civ. 1. This class was extremely hard 100 level class.