Gonzaga University

The intellectual and cultural atmosphere on this campus is top notch. This campus is so conducive to student life with a great basketball team, a huge library and a new center opening up in 2015. Go Zags!

Gonzaga has a wonderful atmosphere and dedicated faculty. I taught there for 12years at the Law School, have taught elsewhere for 28 years and still miss the place and the people.

For someone who has changed her major as many times as I have, and attended almost more colleges than the state of Texas has, I can honestly say this university is wonderful. As a graduate student the professors are committed to one’s success and are easily accessible. Would highly recommend!

Ive been to Spokane (and it’s pronounced Spo Kane, like a cane of sugar), and its basically no mans land. There is nothing there to do. boring nothing little town.
The people are rude there as well.
Try to ask them a question and they look at you as if you’re stupid.
After dropping my sister off here at Gonzaga, i wasnt impressed. The people at this «university» are rude and academics are poor.
I dont understand why anyone with a brain would wanna go all the way out here while there are nice colleges right in their own hometown.

Administration is a spineless mess. Academic departments are not in communication and give conflicting information. Records are not updated. Students since 2011 are «enrolled in programs» and are not allowed to register themselves — it’s supposed to be done by administration. They obviously don’t have a clue; I was registered for the wrong class 4 times for just one semester, even when I gave them the class number to key in. Everybody there was «confused» about it all. You have no control. Insane. Also, they accepted my transfer units, then later claimed I still had to take the classes over and pay tuition again — to them this time. I’m now looking a loss of almost $ 10K in tuition I had already paid, plus I’m a year behind to graduate. The entire experience has been a bait-​and-​switch nightmare. There should be an investigation into their practices. I just never expected this when their reputation is supposed to be so great. Wish I had gone somewhere else. It wasn’t like I didn’t have options. Now it’s just a total regret.

Graduated here in ’04. Hindsight being 20/​20, I actually wish I would have gone somewhere else.
My biggest complaint is that there is a severe lack of research going on here. Which makes getting involved in research very difficult. I was able to do a little when I was in chemistry, but there was next to nothing when I moved to psych. This made applications to grad school weaker than they would have been elsewhere. I would have liked more research experience.
Additionally, I find the entire campus overwhelmingly conservative. I should have known better going to a Catholic school, but they’re Jesuits… Couple that with the fact that, in my opinion, the administration cowardly hid behind conservative Catholic doctrine to avoid any sense of controversy (e.g., Vagina Monologues), and I can’t respect their choices.
I would never allow my kids to go here, and really wish I’d gone elsewhere. I have more reasons, but this review is long enough. Honestly, I’d probably have an even lower opinion if I didn’t meet my current girlfriend (and, most likely, future wife) there.

My time at Gonzaga University was such an amazing four years. If I could do it all again I would choose Gonzaga every time.
I made amazing friends and learned a tremendous amount. As someone who graduated with a degree in chemistry I must say that their science program was outstanding and I would recommend it to anyone. They really prepared me well for my future in pharmacy.
The weather in Spokane is not always the greatest, but I love the northwest and I enjoy seeing all four seasons.

What a very nice location. I am searching for schools to pursue my MBA. Gonzaga has contacted several times so I decided to pay them a visit. I ran into some problems and arrived around 4:30 instead of 12 (my appointment time). I called ahead and they said they would try to accomodate me. When I showed up, the assistant to the dean was there to talk to me, but it seemed like everyone was avoiding me like the plague. When I asked some questions, I was met with the response that I shouldn’t expect much from anyone on a Friday afternoon near closing time. I didn’t get any of my questions answered, but I was given the go ahead to explore the campus (thanks).
I am not sure what to think of this first impression, so I will keep the rating neutral. This is because the students (undergrads) seemed to be very helpful and had a lot of pride in their school. Go Zags.

Not a bad education. I graduated from the economics & political science departments.
Pros: small class size, teachers focused on education rather than just research, no fraternities.
Cons: required religion courses, high cost of tuition, and HORRIBLE food at the cafeteria, plus a required meal plan to make you eat there.

I graduated from Gonzaga almost 4 years ago. In looking back at my experience, I would say that the positives far outweight the negatives. I never once had the feeling that I wanted to transfer to another college during my 4 year tenure. The biggest compliment I can give to the Gonzaga education and community are the values that were instilled in me. I admit, I did alot of growing up while in college and for me, Gonzaga was the perfect place for me to do this. I was fortunate enough to land a great job right out of college and I contribute most of my personal and professional success to the education I received at this institution. If I were to do it again, I might apply to more colleges given what I know about them now and who knows if I would end up at Gonzaga. With that being said, hindsight is always 20/​20, so I have no regrets with going to this school.

My Gonzaga experience was very mixed. I graduated in winter of 2001, but walked with my class in 2002.
The pros: I loved the commitment to service and a lot of the more social-​justice-​oriented professors (Jane Rinehart, Michael Treleaven, Cate Siejk, Marc Alfino) were and continue to be some of my finest mentors and, occasionally, even friends. I learned a lot about myself at Gonzaga and learned what it was like to be a vocal minority.
However, I was also repeatedly harassed for being perceived as being queer — threatening notes were left on my dorm door and occasional various acts of vandalism made my sophomore year exciting. Although much of the campus has a commitment to the safety of their students, nothing happened beyond me being «allowed» to move out of the halls a semester early for my own protection.
There is a lot of good at Gonzaga, but there is also a terrifying lack of allowed conversation about sexual assault on campus and the safety of diverse students.
I’d love to love Gonzaga. Unfortunately, I can’t.

There are so many memories from Gonzaga that I could occupy a couple of my days here deployed in the desert. Good times and bad I appreciate that I was able to have gone here and experience what I did. A big sorry to whoever’s futon it was that mysteriously found it’s way into my room in Desmet. I finally came clean after all these years, yes it was me.

I was love/​hate with Gonzaga for most of my years there. However, the hate was mostly tough love in disguise. I met great lifelong friends. Was pushed hard in education department. While Spokane is not too aesthetically pleasing, the campus is beautiful most days. When it is all said and done I look back fondly of GU.
Good BBall team is nice perk as student and alumni

I’ll admit it, I didn’t go to school here.
WAIT!!! Before you decide this is a useless, flaggable review, I did, however, watch the Spokane fireworks from the hill near their soccer field. It’s the perfect view point for the display. It took about three minutes to get back on I-​90, as opposed to down near Riverfront Park, where you’ll be sitting waiting to leave for about 30 – 45 minutes due to the number of people parking in the area.
Plus one star for Martin Stadium, where the Bulldogs play. Walking past, they have a list of thing not allowed inside. The final one caught everyone in my family’s attention: NO throwable items.
Which lead us to wonder: How do they enforce that? Isn’t just about everything that’s a thing throwable?
GO ZAGS!

I graduated in the early 1970’s (Spokane campus and Gonzaga-​in Florence campus) and still see our classmates from Florence in the Napa Valley every year. This happens when student are bonded together, and have a good education, and good life after college, and I thank Gonzaga University for this.

I graduated in 05. I made some great friends, had some great times. Got a quality education, and landed myself a good job. With every school you have your good and bad. However, after my experience with Gonzaga, if I were to do it again or choose another school. I think I would’ve chose something else.
~G

Well, I didn’t go to school here as a student, but I did spend a week on «campus» as a company advisor for a group of high school students spending a week at summer «biz camp.» Beautiful, small campus, with historic buildings. Gorgeous stained-​glass chapel. Wouldn’t be a bad place to be a student by the look of it, if you can afford the tuition. Downside – dorms don’t have airconditioning and are in a MAJOR need of a remodel.

Gonzaga has been a blessing to two of my family members, my Auntie attended Gonzaga in the early 90’s and my cousin is currently a sophmore. My Auntie absolutely loved her time at Gonzaga, she not only earned her degree but also decided to partake in the abroad programs and spent much of her time in Italy and France.
My cousin who has recently transfered to Gonzaga is loving it. Last weekend I went to visit her and I was so pleased to see how beautiful the campus is. Also everywhere I went people seemed to be joyful and quite friendly. The Churches on campus are incredibly beautiful, also the scenery by the river and all that jazz. I must say it is quite nice, and well worth a visit. Go Zags!

Having attended twelve years of Catholic school I decided to sign on for another four and enter Gonzaga in the fall of 1992. One of the best decisions of my life.
I was a history major — which you would think would be dusty and boring — but they had some of the most exciting teachers and classes in that department. In fact it was sometimes hard for history majors to get into history classes because they filled up fast.
Dr. Tim Sarbaugh was — hands down — my favorite professor. Unfortunately he passed away right after I graduated in 1996 so no other students will learn Irish or Kennedy history from a master. And no one will hear his immortal words «You’ve read the movies. You’ve seen the books. Dogs having sex with cats. It was a crazy time.»
Gonzaga is a very social college with a wide variety of activities available to all students, and there is also plenty of opportunities to give back through service.
I think what Gonzaga provides, most of all, is a great community of people. I am lucky that a lot of my friends from Gonzaga moved to Seattle after graduation — so we see each other weekly.