University of Nevada at Las Vegas

My experience at University of Nevada, Las Vegas was genuinely positive and worthwhile. During my time there, I felt like I was stepping into adulthood, not just going through the motions of school. I built meaningful friendships with both classmates and professors, which made a big difference in how supported and engaged I felt throughout my program.

One of the things I appreciated most was the quality of knowledge I received. My professors weren’t just there to teach—they were approachable, real,... Read More and invested in helping students grow. Because of that, I felt like I was actually getting my money’s worth. The education I received wasn’t just theoretical, it felt applicable and valuable beyond the classroom.

Even after graduating, I still feel connected to the university. Having continued access to resources and maintaining relationships with people there shows that the support doesn’t just end once you leave. Overall, my time at UNLV was a solid experience that helped shape me both academically and personally, and I’m grateful for what I gained from it.

I was an Anthropology major and really liked the classes and most of the professors, especially in the upper-level courses. The campus is very diverse and feels connected to the real world, which helped me think more deeply about people, culture, and history. Now that I’m a high school history teacher at a prep academy, I can see how much that background still shows up in my teaching. It’s a big school so you do have to be proactive but overall UNLV gave me a solid education and a lot of perspective.... Read More

It depends really on what major you are going in. I just graduated with a BSBA in Accounting, and most of the instructors were great, except like, two. I went back for Finance, so I am going to take a shot at that. I noticed specific majors are great, others are horrible, but I think we can all agree mutually that parking is terrible. I avoid the Black Lot, and if my classes are at the Lee Business School, I park in the Dorothy Parking Garage. Otherwise I park at the Student and Wellness Center Parking... Read More Garage to get to CBC and the Lied Library. All STEM students should park at the parking garage near the TEB building. I put out a lot of three stars because, at least in my experience, it's a coin toss on quality and experiences.

While there are certain colleges within the University that have great staff (I did two semesters at Boyd and respected just about every faculty member I encountered), UNLV as a whole is a joke. I had taken out a living expenses loan to get through the Spring semester. After contacting three separate departments and seven different employees, I was unable to obtain information on how deferring would impact this student aid. Turns out, it returned it, and I was forced to pay back a huge lump sum immediately,... Read More instead of being put on a regular loan payment schedule. All I would have needed was to wait a week longer and the loan would have been earned in full. But even after practically begging for the information beforehand, it was only given to me once I'd deferred and it was too late. Rather than supply students with this information freely, UNLV prefers to let them continue without any guidance and sabotage them at the soonest opportunity. To make matters worse, their self-service portal is basically shorthand for "figure it out yourself," as not one of the people I managed to get a reply out of cared to help at all. Their responses can be summed up as "we did something wrong, but we aren't accountable, have fun figuring out how to pay back a loan all at once." Please go somewhere else if you're considering this University. No matter how tempting their tuition and scholarships are.

UNLV does have opportunities for students in networking with students orgs, faculty, and community members. You have to go get it. Having a support system is a must and building one takes time and energy. I was able to attain a full ride and more than I could imagine, such as presenting research at international conference sponsored by UNLV and learning from doctoral students in labs. Although there are negatives to any aspect, such financial aid takes a lengthy time to process many things and the... Read More student parking is bad at times. These little annoyances didn’t deter me from seeking advice from my peers and professors who helped me attain professional skills and advance my education into graduate school.

UNLV is easily one of the worst universities in the country. They claim to offer a wide variety of degree programs however, they do not actually offer the classes to obtain that degree. The acceptance rate is over 80%, yet less than 40% are able to graduate. As someone who attended, its not because their classes are difficult, its because the classes don't actually exist or are not offered for4-5 semesters at a time. So what do you do when your scholarship requires a full-time commitment to cover... Read More the cost of education? UNLV has a wonderful scam going, because they force you to take erroneous classes to keep your scholarship and keep you in school longer. Why get you through in 4 years, when they can collect for 6 years and give you the same degree? Go anywhere else. Even if you're paying 10,000 more for out-of-state tuition, UNLV will scam you out of your money. If you still think they're legitimate I challenge you to try giving them a call-their numbers listed on the official website are "not currently in service". Do not trust this shady, extortionate institution.

I received a bachelors degree in healthcare administration from UNLV in 2018. The professors I took classes from were knowledgeable in their fields, particularly my internship professor. Through the internship program I managed to find a job at a local hospital and my first year out of college I made 50,000+ which wasn’t bad for a starting salary. Overall, my advice to other students would be to remember that what you put into your education is what you’ll get out of it. There are a lot of opportunities... Read More if you’re willing to apply yourself.

I had studied at two excellent universities in other states prior to attending UNLV. I came to UNLV because I wanted to study with an eminent professor who was there (since departed), and I received a generous scholarship because of him. I was thoroughly disappointed and frustrated at UNLV because of the constant and obvious interoffice politics. Feuds and competition, infighting and general personality problems among members of the Music faculty got in the way of the quality of education that the... Read More students should have been receiving; they often used their students as pawns in these feuds. High faculty turnover rate. The department chair was especially unfit for his job, completely unhelpful, sexist and misogynistic. He was in cahoots with at least one other faculty member to deny tenure to some of the best individual faculty members the institution was ever fortunate to have had (because the ones to whom they denied tenure were advocates for the students; they knew what was going on behind the scenes and were striving for change). One professor was busted for child pornography charges and went to prison, and not long before that, another professor actually choked one of his own students in his office. It's a very small-town mentality at this institution. Several members of the faculty were actually musically inferior to some of their own students and even tried to stymie their own students' extracurricular opportunities (prevent them from participating in festivals, etc., and opportunities to study with other, more renowned teachers; wouldn't provide recommendations, etc.). Also, many of the courses most important to a core education in music (theoretical aspects) should be taught by the professors themselves; however, UNLV assigns most of them to inept graduate students who don't know how to teach and are barely passing their own classes. It's known as a party school, and it's disturbing how many students and faculty have serious drug and alcohol problems. UNLV also has a very high dropout rate. That area of the city (Maryland Parkway and that whole vicinity) is dangerous and plagued with theft and violent crime. There were several execution-style gun murders only a couple of months apart within one block of my apartment building, and my car was broken into three times in one month. During my second year at UNLV, I was attacked by a homeless person who was apparently living somewhere on campus. He hit me and actually succeeded in ripping my instruments out of my hands and tried to flee, but I fortunately recovered them when a passerby intervened and tripped him. In all, I agree with several other posters here that UNLV is not an institution that gives back. Students are indeed treated like dollar signs and cattle. I would never refer my own children or music students to UNLV for college. UNLV is a waste of time if one is seeking a superior education and a high salary afterward.

The school strive to earn money and profit by providing instructors who are not well equipped to provide students the required and essential tools to be successful. Most instructors expects you to know the material well ahead of time and shows up to class to do the least minimal work. The school as a whole doesn’t feel like a school. It feels like a business with the most atrocious customer service where all they want is the money but gives nothing in return. I am extremely displeased with this school... Read More and I did not enjoy 1 but if my undergraduate experience. This school has such a low graduation rate and yet has the most highest acceptance rate. The facility members feels entitled and are extremely rude and unhelpful. Starting from the department chair (example the computer science department chair and pretty much the entire computer science department) very rude individuals who has no integrity or professionalism. The school doesn’t offer classes that are required for graduation throughout the year and you had to wait a year or two year to take certain classes. Those are one of the reasons students either drop out or can’t graduate on time. There’s only 1 or 2 instructors who are so dedicated and devoted to help students. Majority of them are only focused on advancing their own career. The school doesn’t care if students complain. When students refuses to take certain instructors because of their reputation, the school start to make the instructors name anonymous so that students could register. Instead of coaching their instructors to be a better educators they punish students. Technically, the university is continuing to operate because of students, if there’s no students, there’s no business. This school is not equipped to prepare future scientists or engineers. I don’t recommend it, and I won’t go back either. I’ll take my business elsewhere. I regretted for coming to this school to begin with. Go to community school, they have better instructors who cares about students and better Curriculum than UNLV.

I had an interesting experience with UNLV. I was a nontraditional student, going to work full time and school part time. I often found myself at bouncing between the advising building and the mathematics department trying to figure out what was required of me. Rarely did I get an answer that made sense. I also had issues with the math department about scheduling, books, and general processes. These negative experience cloud my overall time at UNLV. But, for what it is worth, I hear most universities... Read More don't know what is going on and are a headache to get through. On a positive note I did enjoy most of the classes I took. I found them to be interesting and at times challenging.

I hate the parking and I hate the location!! I'm a mother, wife, and homemaker. UNLV is not as accommodating as the community college, for people who live in vegas and have a family. They want every buck and coin they can squeeze from you! The location is south east of the city and that location is riddled with homelessness, crime activity, and low lives. There's always a suspicious character on campus everyday I go to class. The parking is ridiculous! They make students pay for a ticket or parking... Read More sticker to park and on top of that, there's not enough student parking! They make you either park super far away or pay for meters, if there's no where to park, which if you bought student parking for the semester doesn't qualify for "free" parking at the meters without paying the meters. I paid the student parking for the semester- NOTHING about it is free! But charging us to park, on top of paying the semester to park, is downright cruel and unusual esp. in this heat!! They have way too many staff parking, over 3,000 employees vs 35,000 students... really?!?

I earned master's in history and the program was actually terrific: very rigorous, interesting, and non-doctrinaire. We had to study A LOT and understand all different perspectives. I think the History program itself was great - and I was high-maintenance. The reason I don't give UNLV 5 stars is because of the administration. As UNLV's longtime business historian Eugene Moehring, the school's bureaucracy has been known for "administrative chicanery" since the school's beginning, and I experienced... Read More that in spades. I cover it in the "Eggheads Behaving Badly" chapter of my first book, "Cleantech Con Artists: A True Vegas Caper."