William Paterson University

My alma mater! My employer! What more can I say?

At summer class great school for getting a class or two done in the summer and it is close to home for me a big plus. hope I can take a few more classes and nock a semester off my graduation date.

Campus life: Majority of the students are commuters. The students who dorm are friendly and always try to make you feel welcome. I made two great, encouraging friends here. Anyway, William Paterson is not a partying school unless you join Greek. Greek also do a lot of activities doing common hour. The university is dead on the weekends. That’s the best time to study or go to the library. Wpunj have over 11,000 students btw!
Resources: The resources here is excellent. The library is a building itself. There are many computers in the computer lab, multiple printers and a huge variety of books. The library is also quiet and a good place to study. However, the library can be pack during common hour (lunch time). So finding a computer can be difficult. The advisors are helpful and actually help you with your classes unlikely the previous college I went to. If you get a D or lower in a class, the professor send out a warning email that gives you a few resources recommendation like tutoring. In addition, willy p have a 2 writing centers which can be helpful if you have writers block.
Buildings: The university commons and the new science building are nice. However a few buildings like Raubinger Hall is old and need work done. Overall the buildings are clean. The janitors work extremely hard. I really respect and appreciate them.
Classes: I wish the university offers more classes! It’s sucks if you don’t register early. You end up getting night classes.
Professors: Major of the professors at Willy P are excellent and have their Ph.D. They teach you more than you should know and I love that! Like any University, there are a few professors that shouldn’t teach or don’t really care about the students. So use rate my professor wisely!
Price: The school is overpriced and commercialized. A candy bar costs $ 1.40. Gum costs $ 1.49. Breakfast is $ 6 and change. Lunch is 8 dollar and change. Dinner slightly costs more than lunch. Sadly the food at the dining hall doesn’t worth the price. The only thing delicious is the cheeseburgers LOL. Don’t waste your money on dinner. It’s horrible especially the ziti. Textbooks is expensive!!! If you have book deferment, the college only cost $ 700 and that’s not enough. My tuition at WPU is $ 11,000. Tuition tripled over the years and honestly it doesn’t worth it.
Homework: Sadly this college depends on online homework so much thanks to Blackboard and Book Publishing Companies. You no longer can buy used books. You need an access code. Sadly you only can used the access code ONE time. These books are horrible. $ 200 and you cannot sell it back to the bookstore. Online homework sucks because you only have 3 tries before you get it wrong. No try again. You received 0 credit for trying. In addition, the professors have no control over online homework. This can be an issue if there were a snow day and class was cancel. The assignments due regardless if you learned in class or not.
Overall, William Paterson is pretty mediocre and expensive but you have the opportunity to make most of it. William Paterson have a lot of employment and research opportunities.
I apologize for any grammatical errors. Grammar is my weakness but I’m learning!

Very clean, quiet, and the staff of very helpful. The parking situation is excellent is is located just steps away from the entrance.

Great school. Use rate my professor to see which professors are good and which ones are bad. They just rebuilt their TV studio and its beautiful.

I had a terrible experience taking Organic chemistry there over the summer. The teachers were lousy and the grading system was very odd. The courses werent curved, which for Organic Chemistry, is unheard of! The campus itself is quite pretty though.

The new campus looks great, much better from when I was there back in 2004 – 2009.
I will say, when you take the courses seriously, they certainly trained me better than other schools seem to train students these days as I work with interns throughout the year and it makes me concerned that they are not ready for the working world. Also, be careful where you park between 2am-6am…they will tow your car to a lot down in Paterson which is no easy trip to get to & will cost you about $ 150 to get it back.
The campus is beautiful though and easily traversed. Dorm life isn’t terrible but there are plenty of nearby apartments for rent and certainly offers a lot more freedom than the dorm life… plus is cheaper financially.
It’s a commuter school, so %80 of the students go home on the weekends, but I made some good connections hanging around campus and not going home cause I wasn’t drinking at home the way I drank on campus ;)

I attended WPU in the Fall of 2012.
I have to say I regret ever going. The University took away my financial aid in October and I couldn’t get anybody to explain to me why this happened. Thus my student account was locked and I couldn’t access my email, access online needs for classes, or register for the spring 2013 semester. I called and visited every office I could, each directed me else where. I finally got a solution to this in MARCH of 2013 after I had already left WPU. I keep getting emails of them reminding me I am not a student there and to review my time there… no thanks.
Student life: People smoke (weed and cigs) a ton on campus, one area I hung around was covered in cigarettes to the point you’d walk on them. You can easily smoke weed by the store (by the dorms at night) and the pathway to that store. The campus is dead on the weekends since it’s mainly commuter school. Parking’s a pain in the rear end past like 8−9am, traffic is also a pain.
Campus: Some buildings are nice, like the main student center. It’s got nice places to relax and decent amount of places to eat. I always found a quiet place to do work or just sleep. Other buildings show their age, inside and out. It’s a nice looking campus and not very hard to get around.
Professors: I had no real issues with my professors. They were polite, very knowledgeable about their courses, and more than willing to help.
Cost: My semester cost around $ 4,000. I did not dorm so it was cheaper.

Loved the Jacques Pepin lecture here. The lecture hall was a good size — intimate enough, with good acoustics. The book signing after the lecture was fairly well organized, though perhaps lining people up in the entry way was not the best location.