Hawaii Pacific University

Date: Nov 17 2012
Major: Business - Management and Administration (This Major's Salary over time)

HPU is a very easy school. I am in the business program and I really don't feel like I have taken any intellectually challenging or stimulating courses. The Hawaiian locals all wonder why you even go to HPU since it's reputation is not the best. THey send people out of state to get a good education and it baffles them why someone would actually come here to get one. They are even more surprised to hear you attend HPU and not UH. I never get feedback on any of my writing. I would like to improve my writing skills, but I have been going here a year, taken 15 credits and still don't feel I really improved very much at all. I had a girl in my upper level classes who still could not grasp basic grammar, APA style, or what plagiarism was and she was not even a foreign student.

Foreign students abound here. I went here because it was an

International school

I thought it would be neat to meet people from all over the world. Truth is, they stick together in cliques and don't really make an effort to make friends with people outside of their own little group of countrymen and women. THe Scandinavians and Euros stuck together and so do all Japanese and Chinese and Koreans.

Yes, the homeless and the druggies, and the weirdos, and the panhandlers. They are all very real and omnipresent and if you're considering going here, i suggest asking yourself very truthfully if you want to share your campus with them, because they are here to stay. I didn't think it would be so big of a deal, but I have found over time, that I really despise their ubiquitous presence at my school. I pay to go here, and I don't want to have to share it with the nasty street people who mutter to themselves and smell like pee and BO and sit at our food tables and smoke their ciggs five feet from where I am eating. I shouldn't have to be exposed to FT Street drug deals and being threatened by panhandlers when I don't give them money. It is a major reason why I am leaving.

Another reason why I am leaving is how little regard the school shows it's veterans. Sure we get our paperwork completed most of the time. (MOST) But that is about it when it comes to any sort of veteran appreciation. They didn't do anything for veterans day or acknowledge us in any way whatsoever this year. Unlike most of the colleges on the mainland who had at least something planned, some sort of small recognition. SOMETHING. When I asked them why they didn't do anything this year, they said they were busy in meetings the past month and that it was the students responsibility. Well , I tried gathering up some people to form a Veterans club but no one wanted to give up their precious time to do something to better their school and their experiences here. There is definitely a selfish, and apathetic student body with the exceptions of a few go getters.

Another reason I'm leaving is that HPU 's business program is not accredited by either AACSB or the IACBE . I can really do a lot better than HPU and while it was fun going to school in Hawaii and slacking the past year, it's time to get a real education. Not here! Not at HPU. THere are some good teachers here. Manish Sehgal and Dr. Agrusa to name a few.