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Every professor I have knows my name. The largest class I have is about 30 people. This allows for a lot of class participation and interaction with the professors. My least favorite class is ACS (Augustine Culture Seminar). Two semesters are required freshman year. The seconds feel like hours in these classes on most days. The up side is that once you take your two classes, you are DONE!!! There isn't a lot of work for these classes, but the classes drag on. My favorite class is my spanish class. I am taking Conversations and Compositions. For me, it's just fun to talk about my ideas in another language. We have conversations about everything. Sometimes, I even forget I'm speaking a different language.

Most of the professors know my name. Class participation is common. Students are competitive, but they also help each other out.

Villanova is among the top schools for academics in the nation. The engineering, nursing, and buisness programs are some of the hardest, yet most notable of the majors. Classes can be intimidating because the standard is set so high because everyone is so smart, however the students and teachers are always reassuring and comforting towards everyone.

Academically, kids have to be pretty smart to get in to Villanova, but there are still some people where you wonder how the hell they got in to this school. Conversations outside of class are rare, and you don't often meet people in class who you become close with- that's restricted to extracurricular things typically. The professors are hit and miss- some don't really give a damn what your name is, and others connect pretty intensely and make you want to learn. As a Liberal Arts major, things are geared toward learning for its own sake, but the other schools seem hell-bent on rankings, careers, and making money. Though Nova is typically regarded as a Liberal Arts school, the focus remains on improving business, engineering, and nursing programs, which is frustrating to the lowly English and history majors just trying to learn.

great, lots of help when you need it. the teachers are very open and understanding to any needs you have.

some of the professors are great, and others are terrible. quite a few professors, such as in the physics department, are here on tenure, and they really shouldn't be teaching. other's really care about the students and interact very well with them. most of them are available throughout the week for extra help. i've really enjoyed ACS.

Academics at Villanova get high marks from me in general. Classes are usually pretty small, I can honestly say that every professor knows my name and takes a real concern about how I am doing in their class or in school in general, and all are available for help outside of class. There is definitely a difficult work load, especially since we have so many core requirements, but no so much that you can't have a life. The business school is great, internships abound, and business students have no trouble getting a job upon graduation. Arts students are well-rounded and focus more on education than on a career after college. My classes have been great so far. My teachers are smart and good at communicating their passion for a subject to their students, which makes classes intellectually stimulating.

Yes, the professors et to know your name if they wish. Some care more about that sort of thing than others, but classes are small enough that that can happen. But they're not so small that your the only one in class. MY favorite class was Intermediate Corporate Finance, because the professor made such boring class material really funny with hilarious jokes about modern day examples of companies and there screw ups. My least favorite class was business law, because the professor was a bore and so was the material. The amount students study depends on the student. You'll find that some don't study at all, some study a lot, so it typically depends on the type of student. Class participation is common in most classes at least to some degree, some professors just lecture but most try to keep classes awake and moving by having students participate. Students are pretty competitive, but no so competitive that they would chop people down on the way up the ladder. The Finance major/department is pretty easy I found. There are lots of Finance majors and at the completion of a Finance degree, if you are pretty smart at Villanova you will probably be able to work for an Investment Bank or on Wall Street trading. If that's not your thing than you can look the Corporate Finance route. But if you major in Finance and that's where you want to get a job, Villanova will get you a job that's tops in the industry. The classes in Finance were well designed, informative, and pretty difficult at most levels. It's not a particularly stressful major, and it's actually quite fun if you enjoy what you learn. Very few professors spend time outside of class with you, for hanging out purposes. However, if you need assistance on a project or paper, have questions about getting a job, or anything most professors are available in their offices for any sort of conversation you can cook up. The requirements are many at Villanova. There are some philosophy, history, theology, sociology, math, and science requirements for pretty much every major. Being an Augustinian university, the school requires all students take two semesters of classes that teach about St. Augustine, his life and his teachings. These requirements, though, difficult are not that hard, and can be interesting if you make them. At the business school, your learning is geared toward getting a job. But I think that some of the other majors in Arts and Sciences are geared more towards learning for learning sake.

I will say that the professors at Villanova are normally very personable and I have held many personal relationships outside of the classrooms with them. Having these relationships is important I think for college students, especially when they need a reference for a job or when applying for something on campus.

The academics are very challenging at Villanova. The teachers expect a lot from students in terms of workload and class participation, but the students are up for the challenge, making it also quite a competitive academic atmosphere. Most classes are about 20-30 people, and therefore the student-teacher relationship is pretty good.