University of Portland Top Questions

Lack of resources due to over population. The stuffy people who go here. The admin sucks and there it too much politics.

The financial aid department can be extremely difficult to deal with sometimes. It can take several days to get a reply back to an email concerning loans or tuition information. They are not very good at helping ou find aid to cover what is left after scholarships, which is generally a lot. There is not that much given to normal students as athletes and those in specific schools (business, nursing, education, engineering) appear to get most o the money.

It is a private catholic school, and yet people still get into the argument over whether the school should be following Christian ideals when it makes choices for its students. I am atheist and I have no problem with a Catholic school being Catholic, and it is very annoying to hear people whine about it like they couldn't see it coming. For instance the health center doesn't provide contraception. Well, duh. Just go off campus.

Students do not often communicate thier frustrations correctly. Administration most often uses mostly empty threats to prove points to students. These things only make the situations worse.

The lack of vegetarian food options on campus.

Some of the ways things are run are very frustrating, especially Bon Appetit's catering service. They have monopolized the campus so they have no motivation to actually provide quality services

The first two years of classes could easily be combined into 1. At times it feels as though the professors don't expect enough of us or that the class seems to be lagging behind out of sheer laziness. Some professors are great and push us, others don't push us hard enough. There's a mix

The most frustrating this about my school is the male to female ratio. Since the nursing school is a very good school, it often attracts a great deal of female nurses, but tends to lack in male recruits to the nursing school. Therefore, there is a great influx of female students into the nursing school and a much lower amount of males that are matriculated into UP each year.