Hofstra University

Came here for the bridal expo. It is held in the multi purpose room filled with vendors from limos to make up to isagenix, djs, make up, hair extensions, cigar rolling, macys
They give you a sheet to get filled out so you stop at all the vendors. I didnt do that
No food was offered at this. (wasnt expecting it either) in order to win a raffle u needed to stay until about 3pm. After walking around once i bounced

My family has been involved with hofstra for years. I practically grew up there with my cousins sweet 16 parties, all the company bbqs and I also worked at the summer camp two years in a row. This college is very pricy. However, they have a great summer camp program for the children. They have so many programs and even have a special program for children for special needs called reach. They are located in an area that is so so. Much keep your eyes open. However, overall this is a good institution.

I am a current student at Hofstra and I can honestly say that coming to Hofstra was the best choice I ever made. I live on campus but also live less than 20 minutes from my house. I absolutely love it here. The students are all so friendly and I’ve made some of my closest friends during only my first semester here. The area surrounding Hofstra isn’t great, but it isn’t absolutely horrible either. If you stay with a group, you will be fine! I feel like Hofstra has such a low rating on here because people honestly like to complain. The school costs does cost a lot of money and I feel like people feel like the school isn’t worth the money. The university does have some things they need to improve on (i.e. tuition cost, school spirit, etc.) but overall the school is amazing!

I think I made a great decision in choosing Hofstra for my undergrad career!
While I was initially a little worried it would be hard to fit in as a commuter and be surrounded by Long Islanders, where I had grown up all my life, I was pleasantly surprised when I found that Hofstra was much different than I had expected.
Not only was it really easy to integrate with the student body, but I also felt that everyone I met was of a different background; I felt I met less New Yorkers than I did out of staters! Over the years, I’ve met international, local, and out of state students and I’m so glad I can see how other people view a variety of topics!
As far as education, I really am so amazed by how great the science programs are here. One really cool thing about getting a BS here is that you have to do research with a faculty member, which is something medical schools and future employers in the field definitely want you to have. Hofstra is great with its small class sizes and approachable professors. Definitely easy to go to a professors office hours and get questions answered! They’re very involved!
Overall, student life here is pretty great. Almost 75% of students live on campus (excluding off campus housing students). So most students are always on campus, which is nice. It’s big enough that you see familiar faces, but there’s always someone new as well! Like I said earlier, I’m thankful that I chose Hofstra! Go pride!

The public safety officers think they are police.. They are quick to fight with you. Plus it’s in Hempstead !!! Look at the crime rate. unbelievable.. Overall its a very dangerous atmosphere. also the college is extremely expensive. .over rated..

Cannot comment on education or campus, as I have no frame of reference for that… but I have been on campus for many events. Shuart stadium hosts awesome lacrosse events. My son’s high school team was there for 1^st round playoff this year. The Lizards game are always a spectacle and the Hofstra Division 1 team are consistently good competitors.
This week I had the pleasure of attending the Class A Nassau County Softball Championship Series (shout out to our own WT Clarke HS — 2015 Nassau Champs). The stadium was easily accessible, intimate and well groomed. The place was rocking during the deciding game and the vibe was amazing. Now if they would only bring back Division 1 footbal, local sports would be complete.

One of the best decisions I have ever made was choosing Hofstra University for my undergraduate education.
I am double majoring in public relations and psychology. I am also an honors college student. It would not be possible to do this incredible amount of work without the support of the faculty. Hofstra has some of the most caring professors, who would do anything to see a student succeed. I have had many faculty members go out of their way to help me, especially offering me opportunities that can enhance my resume. For example, two different professors offered me research assistantships in their respective departments, industrial/​organizational psychology and public relations. I have also had professors send me job and internship postings they believe would be a good fit for me.
The experiences I have had at Hofstra are extraordinary. For one, I was able to witness a presidential debate firsthand. It was an incredible opportunity. I saw the taping of shows like Hardball with Chris Matthews live. I got to tour a media bus as well. These memories will last a lifetime, and I have Hofstra to thank. I have also had the chance to work on several conferences and meet some great people. I was able to work on the Soccer Conference and see soccer legend Pele, and I was able to meet scholars at the George W. Bush conference. I was chosen by the Hofstra Political Science department to attend an academic conference in Washington D.C. in January where I was able to meet a wide range of political professionals, including Steve Scully of C-​SPAN. These are only a sampling of the opportunities afforded by Hofstra. Thanks to these experiences, I have been able to secure two prestigious internships, including one with a member of Congress. In fact, our school of communication is #2 on LinkedIn for students obtaining jobs in media post-​graduation.
Of course, every institution has its faults. Hofstra is by no means perfect. However, college is all what you make of it. If you decide you will hate a school, you will find reasons to hate a school. My best piece of college advice is to take advantage of every opportunity. College is hard. You have to be willing to work hard and seek things out. In most instances of negative college reviews, I notice a trend of the person not seizing opportunities and expecting things to be handed to them. No one will hand you anything– work for it.
Hofstra has been extremely good to me. I am lucky to walk this beautiful campus every day. I have met some of my best friends at Hofstra. I would recommend Hofstra to anyone who is enthusiastic and hungry for an amazing education.

I’m currently enrolled at Hofstra and I love it. I’ve had a lot of great opportunities thus far and I’ve grown a lot as an individual.
My major is public relations and the school of communications offers everything I could ever need. One professor worked for both the United Nations and the Obama administration, while my other professor is the founder of the Public Relations Professionals of Long Island. My best friend is also a comm major and she just got a job with CBS in Manhattan (and she hasn’t even graduated yet.)
There’s dozens of organizations to become apart of and all have benefited me in different ways. There are always opportunities knocking on students’ doors, but with anything, success requires work and dedication. There are a lot of negative reviews on this site, but a college education is what you make of it. In my short time here, I’ve attended a variety of networking conferences, interned, joined two different public relations organizations, and landed a wonderful writing position on campus. None of this would have been possible without the guidance of my professors, mentors and fellow peers.
I applied to 7 schools, including Syracuse, Ithaca, Emerson, and Penn State. Out of all of my options, I chose Hofstra and I am firm in my support for this school. Though I’ve had a few grumbles about food prices and tuition costs, I know my education at Hofstra is worthwhile and will contribute greatly to my future success.

All I can say is don’t. Hofstra seems appealing with it being so close to NYC, but that’s really the only appealing thing. I majored in drama, and half the professors were educated at Hofstra! No one in any department knew what they were talking about and they told us if anyone came up to ask why the tuition was so high we should avoid the question. The so called «BFA» program is a scam, and without it you’re basically paying 60k for no major. The kids who had gotten in came out with no connections, about the same education that AMDA could give you (except 50k cheaper) and a school that looks the other way when you ask why you don’t have a job. It says a lot when someone transfers to a community college just to get out of the trap that is Hofstra. The food is awful and the amount of times people found bugs in their food was too many to count. Hofstra is located in the lovely town of Hempstead, known for its gangs and high crime rate. My first year I got three emails a week telling us to travel in groups because there had been students mugged walking back from parties. The school totes their proximity to NYC as a feature yet sets a time limit on the shuttle that takes you to the nearest train station, saying that after a certain time it’s too dangerous for them to come, and if you find yourself stuck there then you better know someone with a car. Even the attendance policy, which varies per major, is insane. If you find yourself in the hospital, or just sick, then you better show up to class with an IV because if you’re absent more than 2 times they drop your grade and recommend you drop the class. If I could give this school 0 stars I would. If you’re even thinking of attending simply because you didn’t get in anywhere else (like the majority of people who go to Hofstra, it’s a ‘well I didn’t get into my top choice but this will do’ school), I implore you to look elsewhere. I didn’t do well my first semester of freshman year due to my family moving and it being a new environment. As a result I lost my scholarship, but when I tried to explain that I was simply getting used to being alone and not having any family close they told me that it didn’t matter and that I could appeal again next year. They rope you in by showing you the gym, which is about the only thing they’ll spend money on, and have the student guides, who are paid to lie (I know because I went to the training to be one, but when I was told about the questions to avoid: tuition, do people drink/​do drugs). The dorms are small and packed (they have 4 people to a room the size of a normal dorm, they call it a quad). There’s so much to say about why this school is terrible, but I’ll leave it at a simple DON’T. Don’t go, no matter how appealing it sounds, it’s not.

My son attended Hofstra, majoring in drama, the whole school is a scam, the Drama department is horrible, poor quality… what a waste of money.

My experience visiting Hofstra was not good. After applying, I went to visit, to see what the campus, staff and classes were like, it was a bad experience. I took the LIRR Railroad there, it was horrible then the cab overcharged me, not to mention there was like 5 other people in a small car with me, and the campus was not too far.
I was never told by neither the school or the taxi service or the people from the neighborhood. The neighborhood that the school is located in is bad. The staff basically told me to go back home in a nice way. Even though I came from far just to consider them and give them a try. Afterward, here comes the good part, a staff member called a cab for me that never came. The schools entrance is right of the highway and no cab stopped. No taxi number was working and the ones that did put me on hold until the line disconnected. I even Googled cabs to get home. I missed my undergrad class that night and I had an exam. I waited about 4 hours before I finally got a cab. The experience was so horrible. I eventually sent an email to a recruiter and told me to take me off their list and that they can keep my money, they accepted me, but I will never consider them, not even in my wildest dreams, I’m glad I visited! Major eye opener!

I graduated from Hofstra with a BA in film, and all I can say is, what a total waste of money. First off, I admit going to school for film wasn’t such a great idea, so I take responsibility for that but the professors in the film dept. have like 0 real film experience. One professor worked on a few wretched Troma films, another only had one of his screenplays made into a film (you prob never heard of it) and another only made 1 small independent film. The professors were very nice folks, but I don’t think their experience justifies the high tuition.
But my biggest gripe was how poorly I was advised when I first entered the school as a transfer student. Originally, I was advised to take the BS program, which I did for a year, only to later realize from another adviser that it was terrible advisement and that I should change to a BA if I want to graduate on time (since I was originally a transfer student). Ultimately, this resulted in me having had taken several courses that I didn’t need and a whole lot of wasted time and money. This poor advisement resulted in something like an additional $ 10,000 added to student debt. If I was as wise then as I am now, I would’ve fought this.
Hofstra has some very great programs in other fields, but their advisement and film programs were terrible. Be careful.

I have so much to write regarding Hofstra… in specific their Drama Department. I feel as if I should be returned my tuition and get compensated for damages and depression during the course of my life in Hofstra.
In short I will say this, If Hofstra is where you plan on going to pursue your dream for acting… forget about it. You will find yourself in a war between BFAs Vs BAs! In the 4 years I took the program I came out wondering why the hell did I want to become an actress. This University stripped me of my passion, of my dream.
I have never ever felt so hated and discouraged by a group of people as I did when I was around the Drama Dept faculty. I have never met a staff of people who can be so degrading to their fellow students. I felt like I was being personally attacked, as if the entire department disliked me.
Yet they wanted to keep me along the ride because my tuition payed for their fucking shows and what not! The greatest disappointment of my time was a class that you had to take for 6 semesters called drama 55 or 55 hours!
Drama 55 is equivalent to modern day «SLAVE LABOR». You basically are assigned to build sets, costume, props, etc to help the department «put on a show»!!
So basically I pay you thousands of dollars in return you make me into your bitch and I have no say whatsoever! My point exactly.
I came to a university to learn the craft of art instead I end up doing manual labor. does this picture not seem wrong anywhere?
Lets talk about acting shall we. So if you are an acting major but not a «BFA» you are allowed only 4 acting classes for your entire curriculum (at least in my time)! JEEZ LOUISE that’s like majoring in Accounting and being allowed to only take Accounting 101 and 102! Who the fuck will hire you?
(I will stop this review right here, but I will edit this and add more details of my nightmare with the drama department.)

It has been a while since I left the school with my BBA so there is not much I can say other than I have been there a few times for events and the campus just keeps growing with plenty of new buildings and plenty of green space.
The school continues the excellent reputation in both undergrad, graduate and law. They even have a new school of medicine.
They have terrific athletic facilities and (though they have had their problems over the last few years,) have excellent programs. I have been to both Adam’s playhouse and the Mack Center and throughly enjoyed my time. They have clearly made an effort to keep the facilities modernized (clean and fresh.)
I will end with the statement that I am proud to be a Hofstra grad and I look forward to seeing the schools’ continued succesful growth.

Went to go visit my bestfriend, she’s a grad student here loved the campus I can’t wait to come back and visit again and hopefully get accepted to here for grad school (fingers crossed)

«They ruined my vision/​screwed up my eyes/​tell you what I’m gonna do, boys/I’m going back to schooldays/​to put them right» — Graham Parker and The Rumour
Man, reading some of the reviews on here of Hofstra as it is now only reinforces what I still feel about my own experience here when I attended for one year, 1986 – 1987, finished my year as a commuter student and then took my credits, dropped out, and transferred later to NYIT and was pretty happy I did. NYIT has its issues but gosh, not as many as Hofstra did/​does, apparently. I only give it two stars because of A. some keen classes I had and some really good profs., although few and far between, I only really liked a few of them enough to even mention them and B. some fun people I knew when I commuted here at the time. But commuting was pretty miserable until I got a car a few months into that year, not living on campus here and not owning a car you can pretty much forget having an enjoyable college experience.
Probably you can forget that anyway. And then we always goofed on the vast windswept storm-​prone parking lots I once dubbed the «Hofstra Wind Tunnels» and the bloody bridge over Hempstead Tpke. called the UniSpan and don’t call it a bridge or you’ll be boiled in oil by the freshman orientation pod people. I also enrolled at New College here at the time, which was more oriented towards liberal arts stuff and those who hadn’t declared a major yet, or had an eclectic one, which didn’t work too well in my experience. It seemed to be the haven of arts and dramatic types at the time who had no other clue what major to declare. I ended up majoring in Communications at NYIT but that was because I had my direction set by then. At Hofstra I was sitting there taking classes like «Mythology» «Youth and Identity», «Intro. to Existentialism» (with a prof that was fond of Hostess Fruit Pies and Heidegger and made zero sense, or rather, Heidegger in the original German probably made more sense) and «Southern Mythology and Folklore.» But that was ’cause I got steered into New College. But it wasn’t necessarily a bad trajectory for a first year, it’s just the pretentiousness that irritated me.
Anyway, I have some fond memories of my one year at Hofstra but not many, sadly. Anytime you have to get on that bus to get to and from campus will yea verily suck, I can tell you all that much. I definitely thought the general campus and grounds were nice, food facilities were passable in the 1980s they are a lot better now, in my experience, having visited recently again, but gosh the school and many professors and classes so pretentious and full of annoying pretentious rich Sir Snots (as per The Young Ones the British comedy show), I can only imagine
though what Harvard, Columbia or Yale are like.
It’s not that the curriculum or profs. are pushovers, they are decidedly not, they will load you down with work and hold you to high (sometimes impossibly high) standards, which is a good thing I suppose, if you’re not working a PT job or two and trying to hold down commuting to Hofstra, work, and other things while you’re getting your Bachelors or Masters (in which case you’ll probably end up eating boxes of NoDoze and/​or in the loony bin), otherwise it’s a meat grinder and a pretentious, snobby meat grinder, at that.
At least one thing I cannot level at NYIT is any accusation of pretentiousness. It might not have been Ivy League or Ivy League-​wannabee like Hofstra or Adelphi, but at least it had its feet on the ground in reality and the profs are generally down to earth and accessible, and the campus is less frantic, neurotic, hyperactive, and high-​pressure. Hofstra has produced some great people like Lily Tomlin (who were clearly great anyway) and others, but that still can’t elicit a 3 or 4-​star review out of me. I know better.

Class of 2001.
Sure it can look pretty and sure I had fun… but it is horribly over priced, with an Administration who’s priorities are totally out of whack. And the ‘Student Body’ tend to be more body than student, in my experience.
If you are from New York and thinking of going here do yourself a favor… go to a SUNY school and tell your parents to put money you will save into an tax free investment account. You will be glad you did.

it’s a college… what can i write???
gorgeous campus, beautiful people, what more can one ask for? oh yea. quality education…

I graduated in 2004 with 2 bachelor’s degrees: one in Humanities and the other in Social Science. What brought me to the school was a full scholarship, and that’s definitely what kept me there, as I would never ever have paid 25K to attend such a sub-​par institution. Except for the honors college, the students have never read a book more challenging than Charlotte’s Web, lack intellectual curiosity, are superficial and privileged. Mostly frat boys/​sorority sisters. The professors are good, but they have to «dumb down» their courses constantly.
Campus-​wise, no complaints: Hofstra is beautiful: an arboretum, well maintained grounds, lots of places to eat (overpriced, of course). The dorms are pretty standard. Many great facilities for sports and recreation. The library is extensive.
The bottom line: If you have the money and the brains and enthusiasm go for much better private schools.
If you don’t have the money, but have the brains and enthusiasm, go for CUNY schools.
If you don’t have either, please save yourself a shitload of money and get into something else.

The Campus is Nice.
The Facilities are decent.
The Students that attend the Undergraduate College are not very smart. They accept almost anyone.
I’m studying Finance. The Undergraduate Business Program is ranked 97^th by BusinessWeek in 2009, but I’m not so sure how accurate this ranking system is… (might have to do with the fact that we have 34 Bloomberg Terminals).
I’m not sure if the quality of education received is worth the private university price tag. (because of the curriculum, not the professors, IMO).
Some of the Professors are pretty awesome.
The Girls are HOT.
BUT… this review is by a current student that has attended only one other higher level institution of education (Boston University), and hasn’t much to compare his experience at Hofstra University with.
INTERESTING FACTS.
There are Four (or so) buildings named after Criminals.
The Zarb Business School is named after Frank Zarb, alumnus and former Chairman and CEO of Smith Barney and the NASDAQ stock exchange. He promised the school 11 million dollars or so to name the business school after him, but in the end only gave the school 2 million (of not even his own money). The school is not very fond of Frank Zarb.
Bernie Madoff, the man convicted of operating a Ponzi Scheme that was the largest investor fraud ever committed by a single person, graduated from Hofstra University in 1960.
Hofstra University attracts/​produces Swindlers.
OH, and I am like the Only Korean at this school…
Everyone else is White.