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Sort By: [Date] [Major] [Rating] Finance  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Average This is my HONEST opinion of NU...no sugar coating at all. I transferred to NU a couple years ago. NU is good and bad in different categories. When it comes down to education, Northwood is one of the best. They provide you with detailed classes and real life experiences. Most professors are kind and willing to help during their office hours. Other professors are extremely rude and could care less about you and just want to get through the term (there are only a select few of these). I do have trouble with professors here and there when trying to e-mail them. Sometimes they won't e-mail you back until it's too late if they even get back to you at all. Small class sizes help out. I have heard from numerous faculty and graduate students that employers love students from NU. NU has a TON of connections for jobs. The acamademic advisors here are terrible. They are always "busy" which actually means they are really lazy or always out to lunch. Very crabby as well. Financial aid is hard to come by, but that's because of the current economy. More and more students are finding their funding getting cut. NU is expensive but most students don't really know why. When you attend NU, you are fully covered in health insurance. They are continueously refreshing or building new buildings on campus. They have everything paid off in full. The social life here is so terrible. If you're not in the Greek life or an athlete don't even come here! You will not fit in no matter how cool you are. There are parties all the time here, but like others have said, it's either Greek only or just athletes getting together. Men's sports and frat boys DO NOT get along. NU's sports department is growing and in the past hasn't been very good but all the programs are rebuilding and some have had great success (women's basketball, men's baseball). There are a number of intermural sports like flag football, co-ed volleyball, and dodgeball. The workout facilities are pretty nice as well. They have a main exercise room in the lower level of the Hach and a heavy weight room (mainly for the athletes)upstairs in the Bennett Center. The campus isn't very big but it works out during the winter when there is a ton of snow and it's redicoulously cold out...you don't have to walk as far. The dorms here are very old style and are pretty small (4 students to one full bathroom). Midland as a city is alright. They have Dow Diamond for the Loons baseball team which is pretty fun to go watch. They also have a nice downtown with a couple nice bars. Dow Chemical and Dow Corning are also in Midland and they are always looking for interns from NU and Delta. Campus Aesthetics: A, Social Life: C Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Oct 18 2009 2nd Year Male -- Class 2011    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=61536&uid=690'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Finance  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Bright Northwood's undergraduate classes are pretty easy. If attendance isn't required I usually only show up for tests and receive As and Bs. Once you reach the graduate level classes the courses become much better. Classes are aimed particularly towards your job field and assignments give real world type experience. My true annoyance like that of the reviews I have read on this site is of the student body. Northwood is extremely Greek oriented. Being a transfer student from the florida campus I was told that if I wanted a more college experience out of Northwood I would have to go to the Midland campus. I did. What I was not told was that if you were not willing to join a fraternity you were screwed. Partys and gatherings are frequent but private to the greek life. I have been told multiple times when hearing of a party that invitation is only for frat brothers. If you are looking to get invited to anything at NU do yourself a favor and buy a bunch of shirts with funny punch lines on them, pop your coller, and join the frat life. You may feel like a tool for a the rest of your life but at least you wont have spent your time at NU bored out of yer mind. I may have dramatized that a little but really its Greek life or no life at NU. Not to sound full of myself but I fit into the stereo type of the Northwood student left by some on this site, that is: upper middle class (have money to burn), have a nice car, and from what I hear occasionally good looking. It doesnt matter I still get turned down when asking about greek life functions. To reiderate, NU fun is centered around athletes and the greek life. If you are not part either,especially if you live off campus, you will be one bored college student. Perceived Campus Safety: A, Campus Maintenance: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  May 18 2009 2nd Year Male -- Class 2012    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=60395&uid=690'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Business - Management and Administration  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright Northwood University is in an extremely small conservative, homogenous town. Very little embracing of diversity, and not just race either. Unless you like to get stupid drunk every weekend, or are into fashion, or cars if you are a guy, you will not have fun here. You will feel like an outsider. The cafe's food was pretty good, but education is what most people come to a school for. And the education here sucks! It is not worth the money and financial aid will give you the run around, especailly if you're in dire need of financial assistance. The only people who get scholarships, are children of car dealership owners and atheletes. Professors are pretty great, I will not lie. They have office hours and are very helpful. However I did have a math teacher who I tried to contact once I transfered to another school, but she just totally ignored me! Do not take "the weird philosophy teacher everyone talks about" as everyone will literally walk out of his classes earlier, fall asleep, or just be damn bored out of your mind. Hard to get around without a car, unless u take the "dial a ride". Lot's of students just like to get drunk and have no substance, nor appreciation of a college education. Basically NU is full of snoody upper middle class (not rich,like most would like to think of themselves) students who have money to go to any college but are simply (not were, still are) to dumb to get into Princeton or even State. And you have to be a loser for you to not get into a state school! All the girls here wear way toooo much makeup and look orange year around. And most of the soroity chicks pop vicodin, I know this firsthand because I have seen it with my OWN eyes. All in all, NU sucks. Don't go here Preparedness: F, Reputation: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private) Dec 19 2008 Alumna Female -- Class 2000   Forward  Blog it! 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