LIU Brooklyn – Long Island University

If you want to attend a school that is interested in taking your money and not giving two shits about your education then you should attend the LIU nursing program. I am someone who never listens to the opinions of others but I must say, LIU is HORRIBLE!!! They make it easy to enter the nursing program. Each students pays $ 200 for their seat. During orientation they are so nice to you. They tell you that they care for you and that if you have ANY issues please come see them, that they will help. They consider us their children and they want to help and then as soon as you’re in and after they collect their funds; you are treated like an orphan. I entered this school with a GPA of 3.987 and was excelling in all of my 6 courses… yes SIX courses (full time). But there is one class that has numerous typos on the exams. Almost everyone in my class failed. Our instructor is an adjunct professor and she is horrible. She doesn’t teach us the material and she doesn’t make the exams so our class is doing horribly! There are several students who are repeating this course and they are failing again because this professor is the worse! Please if you can, save your money and your beautiful brain cells and go elsewhere to become a nurse.

Getting information regarding Graduate programs in Healthcare Management. The assistant dean was very knowledgeable and answered all my questions. Pretty close to where I work. Only a 30 min train ride on the Q train.

Edit****They lost my Sallie Mae payment (disorganized) and sent me to collections. Locked me out of my account and I missed a semester because of it. Didn’t apologize for mistake****
Go somewhere else. They are extremely disorganized. Just look at the transfer rates, they speak for themselves. Better yet call them; today I was on hold for only an hour and 29 minutes before speaking to someone :) Office Staff is not professional almost verging on ghetto. I’ve seen explosive arguments between them. I even had to report someone for using abusive language with me. The location is super. You can get a great schedule as classes run all day and it’s not as competitive as CUNY to get into a class you need. I only had one bad professor. If they got organized I would go back, but this hot mess is not worth your money.

This by far is the worst school you could ever choose.
1. The Education is poor
2. The professors SUCK
3. They kiss the basketball team asses
4. The college is absolutely expensive for nothing
5. The food is terrible
6. Faulties are lazy and useless
especially this one rude women I spoke to «Danielle DiRienzo»
I could go on and on about how horrible this college is. People write reviews on here and I didn’t believe them until now. I’m left with sooooo many loans it’s ridiculous.
Honestly It wasn’t worth coming here. I wasted my time and money so *Do some research before applying here*

Maaaaaan, screw this school. Tuition is super expensive for no reason. This school panders to athletes and pharmacy program. Nursing just got a huge donation, which is great for them, it shows what can happen to a program when it receives the money it needs. I think they just hire people off of the street for the science department. Same goes for those damn financial advisors. One of them tried harassing me into a payment plan not understanding that I don’t have 2000 dollars a month to give them. I asked her to do something w my extra aid, it was never done. Some of them are actually helpful on the other hand. I’m giving them a three star because there are a few good things about this school, like the art department, English, visual arts, the radio station, performing arts, also some remarkable professors who actually do want to see you succeed.

The nursing program is superb. Beautiful campus and friendly classmates. Convenient library with extended hours.

I’m in the pharmacy program in this school. This school has very nice staff but it’s very over priced, they tend to spend their money on the outside of the campus to grab people’s attention. But all the graduate programs that they offer are very good, you are well respected knowing u graduated from Liu. So yea check everything out before to take this financial burden on yourself.

Coming to this school the worst working/​academic decision of your life as a New Yorker, and it’s kind of infuriating to read reviews based on pools and residential facilities. If you want to be employed & have a serious career after grad., DON’T COME HERE.
You aren’t going to college for a pool or a fun art dept. – college is an expensive investment in your future and what happens AFTER you graduate. Want to work in NYC in your field of choice? Want to network with institutions that won’t make you hate your field? Want supportive career placement? Want to have a resume taken seriously as you apply for work around NYC? Then DO NOT GO to LIU or its affiliates, for any major/​level. I have to wonder where the high raters are working now.
Nursing, pharmacy, English, education (my field-​horrific) — if this school is on your resume, you will be passed over or only get horrible jobs. This school is an academic blotch & a financial disaster. If you take your education or career seriously, GO SOMEPLACE ELSE.
For their school of education: I should have known something was wrong IMMEDIATELY when the course listings site had an addition mistake falsely advertising the credits required to graduate. (It lists 33; it is actually 36. It’s like a high school student designed the site.) More importantly, the credits required to graduate plus fieldwork hours are actually closer to 47 or 48. Other schools in this city? 40 – 45. Other schools may require you to teach anywhere from 40 full days to 400 hours, spread out and guided through.
You must teach a full semester in this school, 5 days a week. Have a job? QUIT IT. Other schools let you stagger days.
The classes cost as much as NYU, but make no mistake, the degree you’re getting will be worth less than that of a community college in this city.
Remarkably, for such an awful school with crap reputation if you want to work in NY/​NJ, the programs are designed so that the courseload semester to semester is impossible to plan out or finish. They don’t have an up to date course bulletin, don’t list fieldwork hours ANYWHERE on the course study website,& you won’t know what you’ve gotten yourself into until you’ve been there at least a semester AND PAID FOR IT. That’s the trick.
There’s continual staff turnover. The school administration is shady and tired – they want your money, not to deal with you when something is amiss. Have a question about planning for the key semester of clinical work? Need some advisement? Have a financial issue? Prepare to be passed along an email chain of people that seem purposefully incompetent for the next few months – they do not want you to figure out this school is a reputational and academic dump.
Poke around the school of ed’s site and you’ll see there’s no information about courses accessible, no discussion of student teaching requirements, hostile faculty, disgusting facilities, and most of all, AWFUL tuition fees… with no good employment prospects. There’s no post-​grad career guidance, and no worthwhile connections to good schools in New York or anywhere else. You will have to take off at least a full semester to practice student clinical work, where a lot of schools spread that out over two semesters. Is your job flexible enough for courses that require that, or up to 60 hours of fieldwork in a semester? The program is so small you’ll HAVE to cram certain courses together or you won’t be able to take them, because they’re only offered in one season.
In other words, these programs are designed for you to fail.
In sum, this craphole institution has deep contempt for its students. This is as wise an academic decision as a degree mill. It’s insane program design, horrible workload, no flexibility, no guidance, no networking opportunities. You will be unemployed & in debt if you come here. This school is for desperate losers/​the benignly ignorant only. I was both.
If you really want to work in education/​this city, go to Hunter, go to Queens College, Fordham, Baruch, NYU – take out loans & carefully plan obtaining your degree with any OTHER school and make sure you know participating fieldwork sites, hours, credits, and student field (or for ed students, teaching) hours are required to graduate before you put money down. Look at the list of participating field site organizations.
The people saying this program «has good majors», I assume, are all 21 & under & have no idea about seeking professional employment in New York whatsoever for a field. Pharmacy degree, nursing degree, education degree, social worker – if you go here, YOU WILL HAVE A MISERABLE EDUCATION & NO FUTURE IN THE NEW YORK CITY LABOR MARKET. GET YOUR DEGREE SOMEWHERE ELSE.
DO. NOT. COME. HERE. Just DON’T COME. Go to a CUNY from which candidates are recruited from your field of choice, for God’s sake. I’d say LIU is a joke, but there’s nothing funny about the time you will waste in this dump before before they’ve taken thousands of dollars & years of your life.

The MA in Media Arts program is excellent, particularly if you focus on Media Theory. Dennis Broe is the best professor, as well as the most attentive, I have had in my entire academic career (I am now a doctoral candidate elsewhere). He still gives me advice and feedback and I graduated 2 years ago! Administration is incompetent, but after attending a few universities, this seems to be the norm almost universally in university systems. I would highly recommend the MA in Media Arts program to anyone.

I go to school here… and I’m glad I’m only paying $ 7500 for my MA.
I don’t spend a lot of time (awake) on campus. I have grad classes at night and sometimes use the gym or nap in the library.
The gym facilities are nice. There is a swimming pool, track, weight room, cardio equipment, and group fitness room. The group classes are sparse but I enjoyed the ones that I did take: yoga, pilates, and total body. I really hate that the locker room is in the basement, down and around the corner. I can’t just run out of the gym to get to where I need to be. And they don’t allow you to bring your gym bag or jacket to the gym. I understand why this is, but if I’m in the group fitness room then I can logistically stow my bag inconspicuously in a corner. That aside, I enjoy using the gym or WRAC as it’s known.
The library is a catastrophe. Is it a library or is it a club? Because it’s loud, there’s music playing, everyone is yapping and eating. I mean, it’s a fun place to hang out but good luck trying to study. One day, a female security officer came out of her little corner and started yelling at everyone to shut up or they’d get ticketed. It was hilarious. People stopped and looked at her for a second and went back to partying, er, studying. It’s also outdated! Where does all the damn tuition money go to? Probably the Pharm program, because I heard that’s the shit!

Is school systems are getting crazy, this is a trip. Look I graduated from LIU, but I feel bad for the undergraduates that attends there. Look at the hike through out the years
The break down is per credit
96 — 500
97 — 600
98 — 700
99 — 800
00 — 900
Do you see the pattern? Now they decide to go flat rate, which is $ 17,000 per semester (that doesn’t include school books and fees). The concept is simple; they expect a student to take on 21+ credits, so chances are he/​she will fail at least 2 classes. So the student would need to retake the classes. Make sense? Let pretend a bit, you failed 2 classes and those are the remaining classes to take to graduate. Wow, $ 17,000 for two classes!

I went to L.I.U and received a degree in Pharmacy. I had some really good professors and learn a great deal in my profession. The school prepared me into becoming a great Pharmacist. I also met my wife here. So this school gets five stars.

I have completed my MPA from this university, and overall, the friends I met are good, most professors were ok, and the neighborhood is a ghetto. First, the financial aid staff, bursar’s customer service is extremely poor. Most professors don’t care about anything beside their pay check. The neighborhood is an extreme ghetto which needs to be re touched and cleaned.
Overall, don’t go to this school… it is pricy and after graduation, there is no help for job placement.
Additionally, there is extreme nepotism; favoritism with hiring process… it is always who you know, and not what skills you have esp. for entry level teaching positions.
Do yourself a favor, and go to a CUNy school rather… you will actually learn something paying lot less.

I went here for one semester and I absolutely HATED it so I transferred. If I could give this place 0 stars I would.
I can’t speak for any other major other than Business/​Finance. The classes I took here were a complete JOKE. For example, my Intro to Business class used a high school, yes high school textbook, and yet people were still struggling with the material. If you’re looking to attend a university with hardworking students this school isn’t it. The students I’ve met here are by the far the laziest most unmotivated students I’ve ever seen. There is no real competition among students they’ll be happy if they even pass the class!
I’ve seen professors, admins, and other employees show up to work wearing sweatpants. There is very little professionalism among the employees too. Don’t be surprised if: you get hung up on, yelled at, glared at, have your papers go missing, get over billed numerous times, don’t bill you at all. I could go on and on. Google some of the staff and you’ll see the interesting history they have in relationship to their credibility for their job at the university.
The tuition you pay is too much for how the school looks. Where is the upwards of 34k+ going in this school? The school would rather plant flowers in the shape of Long Island (they actually did this) rather than fix the cockroach problem in the dorms or buy new technology for the library or classrooms.
The school has a very high acceptance rate for a reason. Students come because they probably didn’t get in anywhere else, they fail out, LIU collects on the money. The school also has a very high transfer and drop out rate in relationship to their graduation rate. The school’s so desperate for money they’re mailing students who left letters asking them to come back (I’ve gotten 3 letters already) and that they will consider giving you $ 1,000 (lol) for returning. No thanks LIU.

I don’t know what’s worse– the fact that I went to school here or that I would literally give it less than one star if I could.
Let me start off by saying I LOVE Brooklyn– I love everything about it, but seriously this has got to be as about as Brooklyn as it gets.
First– do not even try to call financial aid or registrar you are better off waiting 2 – 3 hours in the office.
Second– if you fill out forms with change of address, make a payment, or even take a class and complete it, do not expect them to have that on file OR make the change you need. You will repeat this process 2 – 3 times as necessary until the one person in the office who cares is working on the day you come in.
That comes to my next point– no one at this school cares about you.
And be careful with your loan/​financial aid money they WILL screw up the balance.
I’m giving one star for I had a few very well educated professors in my department AND the students here are cool too.
I will always have love for you LIU, like a parent that keeps mistreating its child. Please shape up!

The DPT program at LIU is excellent, and I would recommend it to anyone who wants to become a PT. The staff is great, knowledgeable, and ALWAYS there for you!
I can’t speak for the rest of the University because I really don’t deal with anything else, but the DPT program rocks!

While I am extremely thankful for my education, I would not recommend this school to anyone. It is extremely expensive & the price per credit increases every year.
Another thing I did not like about this school is that many of the professors require you to buy their book! So, not only do you have to hear their mouth for a whole semester, you are forced to read their views on whatever, & if you don’t buy the book you get a big fat «F».
Save your money and go to Brookyn College. You will end up owing less money in the long run & you will get a good enough education.

Would need to judge it for yourself.

This is an excellent college in Brooklyn. The only University in the borough. It has all the majors but is well known for its pharmacy and nursing degrees. Every other major is offered here as well. The library has all the tools you need to be successful in your studies. Financial aid is available. The University has a great swimming pool and a gym that offers classes. They are free to students. The Professors really take an interest in the needs of the students whether its undergraduate or graduate. It has a dorm on campus as well as off campus which is walking distance to the school.
The University is situated in downtown Brooklyn surrounded by a flux of shopping and restaraunts. The building used to be the old Paramount Theater which still has some original stuff.

Never have I been to any school such as LIU.
Loved how the teachers here give so much importance to what you spent to be here. Ive been here two sems… and for sure finishing my degree in about two more years.
Very nice environment, fast and technology is everywhere.
Not to mention the free Apple ipad’s on transfer students and incoming freshmen.