The teachers are good and they do challenge you but at the same time they help you out too.but I have to say it's boring but at the end of the day you get a Purdue degree so I think it's worth it especially if you are in Enginerring.
very well kept up campus, attentive professors, and above-average fiber optics backbone (I work in ITS).
Great dental education department! All the professors and staff go out of their way to make sure you succeed. Worth every penny!
This was a great, affordable college experience. I got a Purdue degree for a reasonable price. I'm very pleased with this choice and if I had the chance to do it all again, I choose IPFW.
A small intimate university that gives you a great education for alot less than surrounding universities. The professors are very nice, and the staff is also very friendly. However, if you're looking for a place to party or to network then this won't be the school for you, it's a dry campus and most attending students are commuters.
Terrible website. Click view classes if you want to get a look at what I'm talking about. I looked at this school for all of 2 seconds before going somewhere else. Fire who ever designed your website
HORRIBLE NIGHTMARE FROM THE START!!!!!!!! I have not yet met a professor that works with me instead of against me!!! I am an excellent student who provides excellent work and I do not deserve a constant F grade for how well I have actually been doing. If you miss an assignment, the teachers will, in front of the entire class, scream at you as if you are a 6th grade child. On top of that, the financial aid office will charge you again and again and again, and then they won't answer their phones when you go to call them. There is constantly construction going on around the building, and the people in the golf carts will follow you around just to annoy you when you're walking outside. You have to park probably 3 miles away from the building where your class is, and they don't put salt on the ice during the winter so you will fall down and get hurt. I know many who have been hurt from falling on the ice. They do not have a lot of degree options and many heads of the departments are ungodly rude and unhelpful. (I've changed my degree three times.) Activities and housing are a joke, they don't always offer the classes you need, therefore ensuring that you will NOT graduate when you're supposed to. Please, think twice before this school gets your personal information and charges you even long after you have quit attending. I don't understand how they can legally get away with it. And if you're from out of town, this is not the city to come to for a fun nightlife. I learned my lessons the hard way. Every teacher at IPFW will cause you grief and hell no matter how well you do your assignments. I pray that no one experiences the hell I've been through here.
I currently attend IPFW as a junior, I definitely enjoy the staff and layout of the school.
Lots of issues going to this school. Financial aid for pell grant was approved then when I submitted a special circumstance appeal they messed everything up. The head of the department was unprofessional and got confused with my case. So she just denied it. After I disagreed with her and wanted to talk to someone above her she took away all my pell grant money.
Distance learning classes I took, the instructors weren't clear on what they wanted, Math we went over was different than we took tests on. Advisor signed me up for classes that I still needed to go to the school for some things when I told her I couldn't come to campus. More money was needed for the courses not included in the books.
I would choose another option if possible and go elsewhere. Shouldn't be this complicated trying to continue your education.
Think twice before you get yourself involved with this place very low class education most students know more than the professors and teachers waste of money and time
Best of both worlds. Get an IU or Purdue degree in a smaller more afforable environment.
Overall positive experience. ;) Degrees are well respected too!
As a freshman at IPFW, I have come to a place that makes you feel as good as someone at home. People know you and they are awesome. The campus is clean when not under construction and well kept. Security is good and the faculty and staff are top notch. The only downside to the campus is the student life experience. Although everyone here is nice and all, there aren't very good student activities besides homecoming. I personally would like to see more of those. Overall, the campus is a great place to learn.
Commuter campus so not very active on weekend when I was there. But I met several administration members and was impressed. I was there for a Queer Health On Campus conference, I think that's a good sign the extra curricular activities are pretty diverse. They have a pretty active hotel training program and a partner hotel across the street. All facilities looked pretty well kept up.
I do not attend the University yet, but the housing is phenomenal! The Campus is small enough to get 1 on 1 attention with professors, yet big enough to get the "Experience". Education is yet to be evaluated.
Great library and faculty. Everybody's really approachable to speak to.
They have decided to remove Purdue from the name so they will become IUFW...Indiana University Fort Wayne.
Great Place to get your degree.
your Education is only what you put into it.
Housing for the school is nice, but you're disconnected from everything. Nobody talks with anyone outside of your apartment, and there's not much to do if you live "on campus" (i.e. events and whatnot to keep everyone connected). As for all the programs, I can only vouch for design and criminal justice. In the design department most of the teachers were great! They knew their stuff, were polite and helpful, and listened when you had a question. But here's the BIG issue I had with the school (And the reason I left to go to another college)...You have to pass an evaluation panel to continue your studies. 'Head' teachers from the department look at your best-put-together portfolio of the work you've done there, and then decide whether or not you can continue in the program. If you "fail" once, you're dismissed for a year to ""think about where you're heading, and if design is really right for you." If you 'fail' again, you're kicked out of the program: FOR LIFE. I personally think that this is very very very hypocritical and judgmental, as whether or not you passed was based on whether or not the teachers chosen to sit on the 'judging panel' liked the type of work you presented. I had put my very best work together and it wasn't at all what they wanted. Very judgmental...what do they want? The next Picasso??
As for the Criminal Justice program, most of the teachers I encountered might as well have been hacks. They had no clue what they were talking about, couldn't hardly speak English, and didn't help you out in the least.
And your degree from IPFW, while technically from Purdue or IU, isn't valued very highly in the workplace. Don't let the school tell you otherwise. Go to IUPUI, or the main Purdue or IU campus itself and study there - your degree will look much much better to future employers, and really only the locals have ever even heard of IPFW.
Do your homework, don't blindly follow what IPFW tells you, and trust your gut. This school isn't as great as it tried to make itself seem.
Housing is a Joke, if at all possible please avoid living on campus, Way to expensive to live here, will charge you for fees that aren't even applicable. And you are not allowed to leave your lease under the most extreme circumstances. Not even worth messing with at all. Save your time and energy.
I do not go to IPFW exactly, but the dorms feel like home. Everybody is nice and very helpful when needed.
I love IPFW. My department professors are wonderful, understanding, and they work with me when I ask them to. Taking care of financing is time consuming, (all financing is), but easy. The staff are students are kind and helpful. I learned much more than just the subjects in the classroom because of the quality of people here.
Faculty in the College of Education were terrific, especially Dr.Nichols.
PFW (formerly IPFW) is a school that truly allows the student to engage with their education. It provides both the facilities and the teaching that will help students succeed.
It may carry the name of two great colleges but after any one comes here they all get disappointed. You may get a Purdue Degree from here but in the end you just be a hollow human brain with no knowege or what so ever. The courses and not regorious enough to put your intellectual level to the test and the research opportunity is near to zero. I am changing this college because even if graduate with a 3.8 gpa I will still be not satisfied with my college life .
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