Christopher Newport University

Date: Nov 21 2010
Major: Economics (This Major's Salary over time)
First of all, I am not a current student at CNU. I transferred to a larger private university. I would discourage anyone from going to CNU. On the academic side, the professors are absolutely terrible at teaching, unavailable, unfriendly and quite frankly extremely entitled especially for professors at a school leagues away from that of an Ivy where I would expect those kinds of professors. Due to the budget cuts, many are overbooked and it does not provide an environment feasible to learning, vision of the students and general academic success. They are constantly cutting programs, including the Chinese program where the professor, who was excellent, offered to teach for free: exactly the kind of teacher that makes for an excellent school and successful students but CNU still got rid of the program. They also do an incredible amount of construction for no reason seeing as though the facilities are perfectly fine the way they are. Perhaps they ought to look into employing a new budget analyst and appropriating more funds to the educational aspects of the institution.

On the social aspect, oh my I don't even know where to begin. You REALLY need to put in effort to have a social life here. Greek life doesn't help either as that will NOT, I repeat will NOT give you access to more friends, parties etc. To top it off, the students are just ugly…