Wilkes University

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The overall experience reported by most Wilkes students is overwhelmingly positive. The outstanding mentoring environment, caring faculty, wide array of student activities, and some darn good academics overshadow the occasional blizzard and unfavorable happening on campus. The positive experiences had by students are backed up by Wilkes’s positive retention rate, the percentage of people who start and finish at Wilkes. This means that people like the campus enough to hang around, rather than transfer out. Homecomings are bigger and better than ever, proving that the Wilkes experience was so positive, alumni love coming back to visit—and donating to the school. Finally, many Wilkes graduates return for a second Wilkes experience through the acclaimed MBA program or one of the other fine master’s programs.

Hands-down, Wilkes is truly a school where undergrads get the full college experience. The campus is a beautiful place to be, a very green campus for an urban institution. The city of Wilkes-Barre has improved dramatically in the past few years, presenting tons of things for students to do off campus, but perhaps the asset most responsible for an overall positive experience is the mentoring environment fostered between students and faculty, students and alumni, students and administration and even students and students. At Wilkes, you feel truly cared about. And once you are gone, you are missed and remembered.

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Nightlife at Wilkes University

christinaaa93

Drama and Theatre Production '15

2.7

C+

Nightlife

Since you have to be 21 in order to go to the bars it is kind of boring on some nights. At our school certain people that are on teams for the school live off campus and some of them will make their home a "party house" and will throw parties for most of the year. Some weekends there are no parties and nothing to do at all and can get very boring. But on Thursday Nights there is a bar near by and if you are 18 can go and just dance, which is cool because we can get a vibe of how it will be when we get older.

May 23, 2012

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Inside Scoop at Wilkes University

christinaaa93

Drama and Theatre Production '15

3.5

B

Unique

Wilkes University is a unique college in that it is set in a very old town, and it has a lot of character which you do not see in other colleges. All of the programs in the school are great especially the nursing program because that is what Wilkes focuses on most in my opinion. The facilities I feel could be better. We pay a lot of money to live in the dorms and by the end of the year everything was breaking and falling apart, but that may be because the dorms are very old. In Wilkes there are many events that we can go on only available to us and they're great to get away from the campus for a day.

May 23, 2012

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Academics at Wilkes University

christinaaa93

Drama and Theatre Production '15

2.3

C

Academic

Academically the school is very hard, and all of the students are pretty much studying besides the weekends. I feel as though there isn't enough individual attention for it to be such a small school. I did not get the opportunity to get to know my professors on a personal level, except for my advisor of course.

May 23, 2012

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