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Sort By: [Date] [Major] [Rating] History/Histories (art history/etc.)  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright The professors are great, and the education you'll receive is pretty fantastic. Defiantly underrated by most books. However, if you want any kind of social life, don't come to UNCA. You can't own a car so your only option is the bus, and there is literally nothing to do without mobility. There are no frats, and no parties in the dorms, so if your looking for that don't come here. Perceived Campus Safety: A+, Individual Value: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Feb 12 2010 1st Year Male -- Class 2013    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=64955&uid=826'></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   English  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright Despite my initial negativity towards this institution, UNC Asheville is a good school. If you're interested in the typical college experience with huge athletics with huge football games, tons of binge drinking, and lots of noise, UNC Asheville is not the place to do it. There is definitely a hippy feel to this school, but if you aren't interested in the hippy atmosphere, it is easy to ignore and go about your business. You can be as involved, or as uninvolved as you want to. Not a huge greek life here, only a couple sororities and one frat here, so if going greek is a big deal to you, go elsewhere. The education department is top notch, they only give licensure's but it is a given that you will go somewhere else to do a Master's degree since UNCA does not really offer a wide selection. Parking is sometimes a pain but if you have early classes, you should have no problem finding a spot. The teachers are engaging and very willing to help you after class or during their office hours, which are usually fairly long. All in all for the price, UNCA is a good school if you're a mature student and are willing to put forth the effor. Sure, the liberal arts thing is kind of outdated, but you can usually use ratemyprofessors.com to weed out the few bad apples and take some rather interesting coursework. It is challenging, but doable. For the most part, I'm glad I came to a smaller university. The classes are small, you can usually have a first name basis with your professors, and really get to know them, which comes in handy once you need recommendations for Grad school. It's a decent place, for a decent price. The campus is also very beautiful too, just come visit! It's worth the trip. Faculty Accessibility: A+, Social Life: C- Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Dec 16 2009 1st Year Female -- 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=63117&uid=826'></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   Art & Design Department  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright This University is amazing! I used this site extensively last year during my college search and ended up here; I can easily say that I don't think I could be happier with my choice. Asheville fosters a fantastic environment. The school is up-and-coming as a high-quality, great-value public liberal arts school. I've only taken one semester of work, but I've had a great experience so far. The professors are extremely friendly and approachable. I'm going to be doing an arts and community research project next semester through the honors program, and the head of the program has been EXTREMELY helpful so far with that. When I expressed interest in doing the project, he immediately picked up the phone, called another faculty who was an expert in the field, and asked if he'd be willing to mentor me. Then he said I'd probably be able to get an internship in town, and I'm a first semester freshman. I think this little anecdote attests to the quality and concern of the faculty for the students. All around it's been great. My psych class is sort of boring, stats at 8am is a pain in the ass, but my English teacher is inspired, and my liberal studies teacher is experienced and engaging. The work's tough but not overbearing. Now downtown Asheville is absolutely the greatest fucking place. The atmosphere of the school and the town are similar and they're definitely conducive to a certain kind of person. It's a very artsy, offbeat, bohemian feeling. Lots of cafes, book stores, some boutiques, some hippy music/clothes stores, lotta little music venues and a few bigger ones, tons of art galleries, restaurants cheap and expensive, an art museum and a big center where the Asheville symphony plays, music almost every night of the week somewhere. During the warmer weather there's frequent street festivals, almost every weekend some sort of arts or sustainability or cultural festivity. The weather is summery until the end of October, and still within the 50's -60's at the end of November right now. Mountains are beautiful, but you can't see them that much from campus. Lots of musicians and music appreciators at Asheville, strong programs that I know of are English, Environmental Studies, Music Technology, and Art. Lotta majors in all of these. A friend of mine is dissatisfied with the jazz music program, and their musicians are pretty good, but I'm originally from the Boston area, and the school can't compare with places up there like Berklee, etc. Ahh dunno too much about other programs. Anyway, that's about all I got. Almost all the students are extremely interesting people with their own hobbies and pursuits, who are very chill and interested in other people as well. I got paired with some phenomenal roommates, so sort of lucked out. We also having a living room space in our dorm, which is only the case with one of the dorm buildings, but overall the dorms are fairly well-sized. The food is decent, there's a cafe and a food court in the student union. Deserts at the cafe, however, are decadent. Shit. Don't get me going about the deserts. Ah, the fraternity scene is very weak as is the sports scene. There is one frat and two soror's, and a Division I basketball team, but sports are just not big. Big things are music, environmental stuff, going downtown is common, parties are common on the weekend but most occur off campus and thus are accessible or avoidable depending on where you stand on that. Drug use is pretty common, low-key drinking and a lot of marijuana. And most students smoke cigarettes, but I'm a non-smoker and find this not to be a big issue. Overall, the place is fantastic for artsy-types and folky-hippy-intellectual ish music lovers, offbeat people and anyone that's dissatisfied with a lot of the bs of normal "university life" and wants a stimulating, friendly atmosphere with great people. Faculty Accessibility: A+, Useful Schoolwork: A- Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Nov 27 2009 1st Year Female -- Class 2013    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=62621&uid=826'></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   Unknown  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright Alright, how I wondered to this sight very late at night sort of hints obliquely at somewhat of an academic crisis, doesn't it? Well, my overall perception of UNCA is that the student body, or at least a noticeable part of it, is like the devil's rejects (I hate to say it, but self proclaimed "nerds"), who flaunt there nerddom and fascinations with really obscure fascinations. That certainly bothers me as I am a fierce lover of people and it's hard to find common ground with people who have isolated themselves into sub-cultures so much that you hardly speak the same language as them. Ok, that was harsh. Not everyone's like that! Sense of humors around the place leave something to be desired. But, people are rather smart, although there's something so emberrassing about seeing people your own age wax forth about philosopher's and such when they just became of drinking age. I've always pondered lifes hidden meanings, and you will often get sophist answers: simplistic comments wrapped in decent delivery. Ok, that's about classroom discussions. The Faculty are uber-nice. The humanities program is pretty solid; you will get a real installment of all those sorry, mind numbingly dull history and arts classes from high school. Downtown can be fun: hipsters are abound, and as someone said, the lack of racial diversity is very difficult to get over for someone who spent there whole life interacting with other races (i.e. it's ok to do a black guy impression, they would laugh!) And kids don't really get it. There PCness proceeds there understanding of the contemporary racial spectrum at times. Oh well. If you went to a liberal arts high school, you'll thrive. The Registrar's office is not fun to deal with, period. The dining hall is good from what I hear. It's OK for the academics, but plan your grad track early as the gen ed could eat you alive...better than UNCC by a long shot. There is no suffocating Greek Life found at enormous universities. Hippies are sweet, just lacking in the imagination department sometimes. Collaboration/Competitive: B+, Faculty Accessibility: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Nov 14 2009 1st Year Female -- Class 2010    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=62265&uid=826'></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      Prev    Select Page:  1  2  3  4  5  6    Next

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