Jay TMG

Review of Muhlenberg Integrated Learning...

Updated 5.26.19. So, our daughter's 4 years are f...

Updated 5.26.19. So, our daughter's 4 years are finished. She graduated with honors, dual major and one minor.
If you're considering this school, this review might be helpful - impressions for incoming year + impressions on graduation.

My downsides about this school: (1) the hideous online tuition "management" system they use (2) how dramatically tuition went up over the four years. And frankly, I did not see those increases reflected anywhere on campus. But to be fair, that's probably true on every college campus in the US

Graduation itself was as close to perfect as it gets. Baccalaureate the night before was beautiful and moving. Commencement itself was efficient. Pres Williams remarks were insightful and apolitical. The kids picked their own student speakers and chose very well. Scott Turow gave the commencement address, which was a treat. In short, it was as everything the past 4 years has been - human, kind of elegant, intimate, and wholesome. Our take: we made a great decision sending our daughter here.

We fell in love almost instantly. It's a beautiful traditional looking campus.
At first we thought maybe too small. The trade-off for that is in a staff and admin that actually knows the students - one-on-one. Seriously. Our daughter is a dual theater/English major minoring in French. This is one of the very few schools we saw that encourages dual, let alone allows it. And they back that up with the support to get it accomplished. This was very important to me with a theater major child. I can't speak to campus life, because I'm a parent. But our suburban NYC daughter, a city kid through and through, absolutely loves the school and her non-academic life.