University of St Thomas-Saint Paul Top Questions

Our campus atmoshphere on the weekends. Many students choose to leave every weekend so that they can go drink at parties. However, those of us who stay on campus have a great time with the campus activites. However when everyone chooses to leave campus versus staying those activties get cut from the budget.

many students do go home or away from campus on the weekends.

The theology requirements. We ar required to take 3 theology classes, i understand its a Catholic school, but i think 1 theology class would be efficient enough to get their point across. I'm personally not Catholic so its not the easiest for me to get intrigued by the courses, but in the end i think it will be a good experience.

I think that their isn't much diversity and everybody seems to come from about 20 minutes away and its a pack and go home kind of school.

I do not like the meal plan that I had to buy to live in the dorm. I don't eat that many meals at the cafe, but this you would find at any school. UST is great no big complaints!

Since this is a private school, some departments such as music, theater and even biology (which is relatively new here) take a backseat to more popular departments such as business and education. So unless you are a business or education major, your classes might possibly be in the older buildings on campus and your major program will get less money and have fewer people in it. Other issues: the spanish language program here is so-so, on campus parking is limited and expensive, and there are lots of general requirements such as 2 philosophy and 3 theology courses.

One thing that is a disadvantage is the amount of competition for jobs. Each of your classmates is considered competition; however, I believe that can then be used as motivation to work that much harder to distinguish yourself from your classmates.

Many of the students conme from wealthy families, as a result many newer students tend to possess the aire of rights instead of privilage.

This school is small and competes in Division III sports. It does not have a strong journalism department. Because I am a journalism major and I want more out of my college experience. I am transferring after the 2009-2010 academic year to University of Kansas. However, I need financial aid since my mom and I are the only people paying for my education. My GPA is currently 3.62 and this school is also way too expensive. I can get more out of my college experience and pay less at KU.

Perhaps the worst thing about this school is the cost of tuition. This is a vary expensive school and has been rated one of the top schools in the country in which graduates come graduate with the most debt. But if students are proactive in seeking out scholarships and working hard during the summer and j-term, they can help to minimize these costs.