Arcadia University — Attraction in Cheltenham Township

Absolute scam, I don't say that as an exaggeration. $50,000 a year is actually unfathomably high and makes it one of the highest in COUNTRY for subpar education. Don't let them mislead you with scholarships.

This is not a University or College, you are paying for your degree and subpar education irrelevant to your career with unenthusiastic lecturers and surface level education.

They push hard for you to drag out your education with 'mandatory classes' spread out to 4 maybe 5 years to get every dime of you.

Worse yet, I have no clue where this money is going, there's hardly any faculties and the ones that there are are such poor quality.

For instance, Heinz Hall (where i stayed) had prison showers where they cutely suggest you bring SHOWER SHOES to like that's normal. They were filthy, hair and food everywhere. Even condoms, food on the floor and sink and the toilets were frequently clogged.

Perhaps most shockingly, THERES NO KITCHEN (not even communal), you're only sources of food around are a gas station, a diner, and the chat and dining hall (which wasn't open half the time). I spent nights hungry as a result. Ironically, there's a Walmart physically not far but there's an impassible highway in the way meaning groceries were completely unobtainable.

Save your money and your sanity, do not study at Arcadia, there are a variety of better colleges within the area for a fraction...

Prepped for a year to do well enough on the GRE, gain work experience, and crush my interview to gain admission into their physician assistant program...which I did. Even visited the campus before accepting their offer to get an impression of if it was right for me. Well, it was a classic bait and switch [in quality]. The castle ambiance is luring, but the administration and chairs are a soup-sandwich falling apart. Two professors were fine but the rest couldn't separate out their divorced unhappy lives from their duty to teach. Some had a strange understanding of pathophysiology that makes me chuckle 12 years later now that I know better. Plus, they tracked negative feedback on courses by seeing what time your evaluation populated off and when an unnamed new one populated on...so there was no true anonymity. Luckily my academic advisor went to bat for me when I was threatened with expulsion if I ever gave another negative review. It prepared me but I am sure another university would have done so just as well with kinder and more just intent as well as better...

I have spent 4 years at this great institution and I plan to stay for a further 3 years in pursuing my DPT degree. Many complain of a lack of activities and in my opinion it's due to the lack of effort many put into finding things to do. I have found it incredibly easy to have fun while enjoying the peacefulness of avoiding inner city sound pollution. If you are pursuing a degree in any biological studies and want close personal interaction with professors, this is the place to be. This university has opened many doors for me and I am grateful. I will be honest in saying that it needs a tune up in some categories, student affairs I'm staring at you, but it succeeds in preparing you for the real world. Finally, if you want to see the world, there is no better place. I have been to London and the Virgin Islands for study abroad and have had many friends that have explored nearly every corner of the world. This is my humble opinion, if you don't agree, then you didn't take advantage of this school. Hail, Arcadia! Hail! We say! I...