Valparaiso University — Local services in Valparaiso

I went to this university to swim and get a great education in biology and psychology. The science facilities where labs were held hadn’t been updated in Lord knows how long. Every freshman has to take a “core” class and my second semester my professor was the catholic minister of the school who discriminated against me for my religious beliefs. That’s when I knew this school was a joke. I would say 75% of the freshman are promised tens of thousands in scholarships throughout their four years from the school which convinces a lot of them to choose Valpo then after their freshman year they take away almost everybody’s scholarships after their established at Valpo and half their credits won’t transfer. They pump their money into new dorms, new sorority housing, and adding to the already extravagant church while neglecting to update their outdated education facilities. The athletics spends all its money on its average basketball team. The swimming pool was literally a gas chamber and some of my teammates on the swim team who were juniors and seniors had developed asthma swimming in that pool so long. It’s an “engineering” school but the campus itself is poorly engineered so there’s always huge pools of water everywhere. You’ll have to move your car so there’s somewhere for them to put all the snow in the winter. The student population is pretty cool I made a ton of friends with a lot of great people but it’s mostly kids from mommy daddy money with everything handed to them. I got falsely accused of cheating by a student with a vendetta against me and had to go through a long, drawn out process with their “judicial board” just for them to tell me I didn’t cheat. I had a professor with a “Christian psychology” degree - must be a degree given by Valpo themselves because those are probably one of the only people still living in the nineteenth century incorporating religion with science. He was also clueless on most modern day psychology, so was the head of the psych department who looked like he was still alive from the nineteenth century. My current roommate graduated from Valpo and they did a horrendous job with his career placement and search before graduating because now he works for - believe it or not - a Lutheran organization and doesn’t make half of what I do without a college degree. I hear the engineering program is decent but definitely has nothing on Purdue’s which is a fraction of the cost. Long story short, Valparaiso university is a big fat waste of money and I would stay far away from this cold, desolate place. Engineering kids - save your parents some money and go to Purdue. Valpo is a joke of...

The school tries so hard to be a big name like Purdue, Notre Dame, or IU. But they simply are not. This school makes it as inconvenient as possible if you are a commuter student. The school not only give commuters less parking than the staff, but the locations of the commuter parking lots are as far away from any building as possible. Not only this, you pay for parking separate from tuition. My parking fines (though arbitary in price) have cost me far less than aquiring a parking permit for this school. Despite the fact that a third of students attending this school are commuters, Valpo only seems to care about out of state or international students. This is simply my opinion but I believe the school cares less about commuters in order to draw in out of state students, in the hopes that their name spreads. Well I had never heard of this second rate school until moving to this area. I only attended this school because it was so close. To this day, I regret not pursuing a cheaper option such as Ivey Tech, or Purdue Northwest. The advice I give to anyone asking about this school is to attend a more affordable college that will more than likely give you a...

Boomers paid for this with a part-time Mcjob. One of many things robbed from their kids' generations as well as all that have followed. The only games i have ever lost disappeared while i was going here. Looking back, they were all pokemon games, and I'm sure they were stolen. Food quality also steadily dropped most of the time i was there. If that trend continued, I'm sure they are serving the same bottom quality prison food you get in public schools by now, and that the only thing stopping them from serving the kind of feed you would give pets and farm animals are the remaining health and safty regulations republicans have yet to get rid of. But maybe they axed whoever took over dining services around year 2 or 3 of my time...