Olivet Nazarene University
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Educational Quality | F | Faculty Accessibility | F |
Useful Schoolwork | F | Excess Competition | F |
Academic Success | F | Creativity/ Innovation | F |
Individual Value | F | University Resource Use | C- |
Campus Aesthetics/ Beauty | B | Friendliness | B- |
Campus Maintenance | F | Social Life | F |
Surrounding City | D- | Extra Curriculars | D+ |
Safety | A+ | ||
Describes the student body as: Friendly, Arrogant, ClosemindedDescribes the faculty as: Friendly, Unhelpful |
Lowest Rating Educational Quality | F |
Highest Rating Safety | A+ |
Major: Unknown (This Major's Salary over time)
It's simply not worth it. You're paying more to do less. Most state school kids are having to come up with $7,000-$30,000 in cash, grants, scholarships, and loans depending on where they're going and whether or not they're getting in-state. At ONU, you're needing to come up with $40,690 (to be exact) in all that stuff, not including books and other expenses. The funds you raise to be at ONU for two semesters could buy you roughly four years of in-state tuition at many larger, better-known schools. Think about that.And for what, exactly? The food isn't good. Some of the buildings on campus look decent (key word here is "decent"). Others could use some serious work; especially the dorms. The faculty, collectively speaking, are okay. They don't suck, but they aren't mind blowing either. Like I said at the beginning, you're paying more to do less. If you're a ministry major then have at it. But everyone else could find a much more stimulating experience for a much smaller price tag elsewhere. They're very good at drawing people in. In fact, you'd be forgiven for thinking that that's all they care about. You may even be right. They've grown skilled at convincing people that the only difference between them and a state school is you can't drink or smoke on campus (reasonable) and the dorm buildings are unisex (stupid, but not outrageous in and of itself). Suffice it to say this isn't even close to the full story. It's much more restrictive than they dare let on during visits. For kids who came from a strict background/thoroughly conservative evangelical environment (about 52ish% of the student population), they can't even tell the difference. They have no idea what all the complaining's about. For the rest of us, it's outrageous. Others on here have fumed in great detail about the rules, so there's no need for me to go into any detail here. The bottom line is that you're paying not quite Ivy League prices for an okay education which may or may not get you somewhere when you graduate, an okay looking campus (which is a thoroughly 9-5, 5-day-a-week-campus, by the way. Nothing's ever open, relative to state schools), petty fines, useless restrictions (most of which have sh!t to do with Christianity), and bad food. Save yourself the stress and money, and look elsewhere. Besides, at this point if your Christian faith is so vulnerable that you need a cloistered, conservative environment for another four years to keep it strong, you have no business leaving your parents' house anyway.