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Sort By: [Date] [Major] [Rating] Education  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Bright Radford started as a teacher's college and it does a great job of preparing future teachers. I loved my time at Radford. The school has a great feel and professors are very accessible. The negative comments about the college come from students that wanted to go to a big school (VT) and didn't get in. I have friends that are veterinarians, lawyers, and one in medical school - all went to Radford an all could have gone to other universities. I have to admit that the administration at Radford has turned the local police against the students. Go have a beer off campus with a few friends and you will undoubtedly meet an undercover cop who will bust you! Go to VT and have a few beers and you will learn how to socialize and slowly become an adult. Blacksburg police treat the students like part of the community and in turn they are treated with respect. Radford cops sneak around trying to catch underage drinking ---- come on it's college guys! Meanwhile in town there are locals jumping the kids late at night as they try to get home from a friends house. If you had a beer at the friends house and you get robbed, there is no way you will contact the police. Thanks Radford cops for targeting the big problem -- underage drinking and isolating the students that are being robbed and raped, but my have had a few beers. My advice - Radford is a nice college surrounded by a lousy town! Starting Job: Middle School Teacher, Preparedness: A+, Reputation: C Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private) Jun 27 2008 Alumna Female -- Class 2000   Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='sr_comment.js?sckey=50843&uid=1416'></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   Biology  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright Teachers are typically arrogant and condescending. They don't expect RU students to be the "achiever-type" so they don't make an effort to help them. When a student does reach out, it's usually only because they missed 90% of lecture and want a D instead of an F. Only about 1/3 of students show up for class on a regular basis, so teachers are more concerned about attendance requirements rather than the actual subject matter. Classes and teachers are like high school. Don't expect to get help from professors during office hours either. I think one of the reasons professors are unfriendly is because their life consists of teaching morons at one of Virginia's worst schools. I guess I can't blame them. Since the academics are piss-poor, you can imagine extracurricular activities are weak too. I went to a student club interest meeting which consisted of three girls sitting around talking about bullshit...for over an hour. It ended with the leader proclaiming she wasn't even interested in the particular club. Needless to say, I never returned. Imagine trying to network with those people. Thats your alumni base!! A bunch of idiots! The town of Radford consists of Main Street and thats it. The townies are a mixed bag of 10% middle class residents and 90% non-showering, teeth-lacking junkies who are on welfare and usually abuse pharmaceutical drugs. Incoming freshman and transfer students should also be aware of the two townie crack heads who wander around near campus. Students nicknamed him "Rambo" and he tries to pimp his wife out for either $2 or a 40oz. Its the kind of town where you know there are tons of low-life sex offenders lurking around every corner. Not an eye-pleasing place. Faculty is always accessible. They live in Radford; they have nothing else to do. Student competitiveness in your respective department is great because its non-existent... Radford's Gen-ed program consists of busywork and multiple choice Scantron tests. Zero creativity. Campus is average at best. Modern looking buildings and poorly laid sidewalk patterns with a couple trees. Nothing to brag about, but its not bad. Students are immature and close minded. Students often yell "Radford Sucks" to families on campus tours, then proceed to laugh about it for five minutes. Another student favorite is to get drunk and vandalize the bicycles locked outside the dorm rooms. At a certain point, you have to ask yourself, "what the hell did I do in life to have deserved this? Why didn't I go to JMU or VT and get a real university experience." A good one word description of the student body would be "unaware" They are completely "unaware" of where they are going in life. But they are definitely aware of where beer is on sale across southwest Virginia! Save your time and money folks. Faculty Accessibility: A, Education Quality: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Jun 17 2008 1st 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='sr_comment.js?sckey=49906&uid=1416'></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   Biology  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright If one of the following apply to you, from any category, you will be perfect for Radford University!! 1. VT -You got rejected at VT and were too much of a townie/loser to face reality, so you enrolled at Radford because its 10 miles south of VT. -You tell friends/relatives you are only at Radford because you plan on eventually transferring to VT. (Yea, right. If it makes you feel better, keep telling yourself that.) -You have a general obsession with Virginia Tech, and you wear a VT sweatshirt/T-shirt everyday. 2. Northern Virginia -You are a spoiled, close-minded, underachieving student from Northern Virginia. Most likely you graduated with sub-par grades and/or at the bottom of your High School class. You also probably got rejected at George Mason and didn't break 1000 on your SAT's. -You have a completely unearned sense of entitlement, simply because you are from NOVA. You walk around campus with an aura of arrogance, while exhibiting nothing that would warrant it, such as a strong intellect. -Your parents were good students, who are now successful adults. They are largely disappointed in you, but have probably come to terms with their lowered expectations. They decided to buy you a new car anyway and hope you come back to Fairfax without being arrested or expelled during your 4-6 years at Radford. 3.Other -When entering Radford, you will have no long-term goals, ambition, drive, focus or basic perception of what college truly details (ie..learning and preparing yourself for a career in your chosen field) -You choose only to drink for four years straight, and didn't realize what college was "supposed" to be about until you received your worthless Radford diploma. Essentially you are holding a piece of paper and possess an empty resume and nothing to offer to employers but alcoholism. -You can locate the U.S. Mexico and Canada on a map, thats about it. -You have no idea who the president was during the Great Depression. -You have never actually read a newspaper and you have not read a book since 8th grade. Well, if any of those apply to you, Radford U. would love to take your money and give you nothing in return for it!!!!! Starting Job: Middle School Teacher, Preparedness: A+, Reputation: C Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  May 23 2008 1st Year Male -- Class 2010    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='sr_comment.js?sckey=47500&uid=1416'></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 Not so bright One thing that is really misinterpreted about RU is the social life. I want to shed some light on the "party scene" at RU because it actually sucks. When comparing schools like JMU or UVA or Virginia Tech etc etc to Radford University, in terms of partying, hands down they all trump RU. First, RU has absolutely no school spirit AT ALL. There is also no football team and RU does not have a single program that is considered respectable in the Big South Conference. The Basketball team is a joke and the Baseball team annually loses to tohe local area community colleges (seriously). So, with sports being non-existent at RU, that alone takes out a major aspect of the social scene one generally would expect at a University. Second, the largest party of the year, "Quadfest" is on average smaller in scope than the Virginia Tech pre-game tailgate...in one section of one parking lot at lane stadium....AT A DUKE GAME! If you go to nearby VT on any given Saturday during football season, the atmosphere and partying is tenfold better than RU's only big social event, aka Quadfest. RU got this stereotype of major party school in the 1980's. Now it has shriveled up into nothing more than 5-15 people crowded around a half empty Natty Light keg in a small, dirty, extremely old house that has almost everything broken inside of it..including windows, doors and appliances. If you go to a Frat party, you get the same thing, only the house is even more broken down and has the added value of a disgusting odor as well as puddles of mysterious liquid all over the floor. Instead of 5-15 people standing around, you get 30-40 people crunched wall to wall in a basement having to wait 30 minutes to get half a cup of beer. And to top it all off, in a matter of a few weeks, you start to realize you see the EXACT same people at every single party you go to. Whether you know 10 or 200 people, you will bump into all of them and eventually get tired of partying with the same people because they are all alike. You quickly realize that even though you go to a school of 10,000 students, you only actually see about 40-50 of them at parties...for four years straight. It makes you wonder if there are actually 10,000 students and why the hell it ever got a reputation as a party school..... Don't get me wrong, beer and college is always fun, but the scene is weak compared to most schools in VA. Its average at best, plus cops have gotten real bad last two years and bust almost everything now. Starting Job: Middle School Teacher, Preparedness: A+, Reputation: C Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  May 23 2008 1st Year Female -- Class 2012    Forward  Blog it! 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