North Iowa Area Community College

NIACC is a good two year school to go to get your Gen-Ed?s out of the way. The councilors are good but not great the majority try to help their students but there are a few that do not seem to what they are doing. The classes are challenging and the faculty is helpful and wants you to achieve your full potential.

The campus look good the facility support does a good job of making the grounds look good. The layout of the campus is ok if you don't mind walking out in the open above a frozen pond in the winter when it's thirty below zero. The dorms are way too small you would have more space in a prison cell. If you are from north central Iowa I recommend that you live at home. If you're coming from far away get an apartment in Mason City. NIACC does not fix anything in the dorms and there is no color what so ever all you see is the ugly poop brown brick. The food ok not great the food court is better than the dorm's dinning. But the food court closes and one thirty on one depending on the day.

If you are not from northern Iowa be ready for a culture shock. NIACC is out in the middle of a corn field on the east side of Mason City. If you need to get something from Wal-Mart or Target you have to drive trough Mason City which could take anywhere from twenty to thirty min. Mason does not do anything to cater to the college the only thing to do are to go to the movies or the mall which has very few cool stores.. NIACC has no social life everyone that can either goes to UNI ISU or the U of I to party on the weekends or they go home.

2nd Year Male -- Class 2008

Scholastic Success: A+, Campus Aesthetics: F

Although the academics at North Iowa Area Community College were excellent (I transfered out to Western Iowa Tech Community College after 1 semester because of what I am mentioning in this interview) and the instructors and counselors are great, the dorm life stinks. There are alcohol rules listed, but they are almost never enforced. The weekend before finals, a guy on my floor passed out in the hallway! I visited a room of a teammate of mine (I was in cross country, and I highly recommend the coach), and he was drinking a beer. The RA came by, looked, and didn't do anything but say "hi guys." The noise rules aren't enforced either. The halls are supposed to be quiet after 10 pm. There have been weeknights where there has been noise until 1:00 am, and I was on the quiet floor! In addition, the rules about girls in men's dorms aren't enforced either. When I tried to get this rectified, the staff was very condescending, and didn't seem to want to correct it. In short, if you are going to live in the dorms, I do not recommend NIACC, unless you want to party.

1st Year Male -- Class 2007

Education Quality: A+, Social Life: C