Purdue University Fort Wayne — Attraction in Fort Wayne

Housing for the school is nice, but you're disconnected from everything. Nobody talks with anyone outside of your apartment, and there's not much to do if you live "on campus" (i.e. events and whatnot to keep everyone connected). As for all the programs, I can only vouch for design and criminal justice. In the design department most of the teachers were great! They knew their stuff, were polite and helpful, and listened when you had a question. But here's the BIG issue I had with the school (And the reason I left to go to another college)...You have to pass an evaluation panel to continue your studies. 'Head' teachers from the department look at your best-put-together portfolio of the work you've done there, and then decide whether or not you can continue in the program. If you "fail" once, you're dismissed for a year to ""think about where you're heading, and if design is really right for you." If you 'fail' again, you're kicked out of the program: FOR LIFE. I personally think that this is very very very hypocritical and judgmental, as whether or not you passed was based on whether or not the teachers chosen to sit on the 'judging panel' liked the type of work you presented. I had put my very best work together and it wasn't at all what they wanted. Very judgmental...what do they want? The next Picasso?? As for the Criminal Justice program, most of the teachers I encountered might as well have been hacks. They had no clue what they were talking about, couldn't hardly speak English, and didn't help you out in the least. And your degree from IPFW, while technically from Purdue or IU, isn't valued very highly in the workplace. Don't let the school tell you otherwise. Go to IUPUI, or the main Purdue or IU campus itself and study there - your degree will look much much better to future employers, and really only the locals have ever even heard of IPFW. Do your homework, don't blindly follow what IPFW tells you, and trust your gut. This school isn't as great as it tried to make...

HORRIBLE NIGHTMARE FROM THE START!!!!!!!! I have not yet met a professor that works with me instead of against me!!! I am an excellent student who provides excellent work and I do not deserve a constant F grade for how well I have actually been doing. If you miss an assignment, the teachers will, in front of the entire class, scream at you as if you are a 6th grade child. On top of that, the financial aid office will charge you again and again and again, and then they won't answer their phones when you go to call them. There is constantly construction going on around the building, and the people in the golf carts will follow you around just to annoy you when you're walking outside. You have to park probably 3 miles away from the building where your class is, and they don't put salt on the ice during the winter so you will fall down and get hurt. I know many who have been hurt from falling on the ice. They do not have a lot of degree options and many heads of the departments are ungodly rude and unhelpful. (I've changed my degree three times.) Activities and housing are a joke, they don't always offer the classes you need, therefore ensuring that you will NOT graduate when you're supposed to. Please, think twice before this school gets your personal information and charges you even long after you have quit attending. I don't understand how they can legally get away with it. And if you're from out of town, this is not the city to come to for a fun nightlife. I learned my lessons the hard way. Every teacher at IPFW will cause you grief and hell no matter how well you do your assignments. I pray that no one experiences the hell I've been...

Lots of issues going to this school. Financial aid for pell grant was approved then when I submitted a special circumstance appeal they messed everything up. The head of the department was unprofessional and got confused with my case. So she just denied it. After I disagreed with her and wanted to talk to someone above her she took away all my pell grant money.

Distance learning classes I took, the instructors weren't clear on what they wanted, Math we went over was different than we took tests on. Advisor signed me up for classes that I still needed to go to the school for some things when I told her I couldn't come to campus. More money was needed for the courses not included in the books.

I would choose another option if possible and go elsewhere. Shouldn't be this complicated trying to continue...