Salve Regina University
Salve Regina University is a established in (unknown). The campus is located in and hosts students with an endowment of .
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3 Student Reviews of Salve Regina University
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I would not recommend this university. They promise a lot more than they can deliver. The classrooms are small many are located in basements and not updated. The fitness center had old equipment and was dirty. There is only one place to eat and the cafeteria food is horrible and they serve the same food every night. My daughter went there as a freshman and left after just one semester, along with a bunch of students that did not return. At night there is nothing to do and it is cold and dismal during the winter since it is mainly a summer vac spot. The town of Newport itself is low income there are some very bad parts and they only gaurantee housing for the first 2 years. For the money there are so many better schools to choose from. Do not send your child here you will both be very dissapointed.
In response to ‘no comment’s review:
At Salve Regina, you have to go out and find something to do; be outgoing and not sit around waiting for the opportunity of something to do at night to come to you. You can’t complain that there are no student functions to get the students together. They are not five year olds going to their first day of preschool. It is the real world and you have to learn to be independent and not rely on the school to bring you friends and things to do on weekends.
The campus is beautiful, but that’s not everything there is to that school.
You can’t take stories you hear about Salve’s dorm living and state them as a fact. Maybe the stories are true and maybe they are just rumors. You will never know personally no matter who you know.
And if you get stranded on the weekends in a town in Rhode Island because you wanted to go somewhere and you didn’t know that buses don’t run really late, that is your own fault. It is the students own personal responsibility to take care of themselves. If they are willing to take the time to visit someone or go somewhere in Rhode Island, they also have to have the responsibility of how and when they are gonna get there and back.
STUDENT SAFETY is very important yes, but STUDENT STUPIDITY is more common and hard to cure. Parents – if you are concerned with your child’s safety off campus, talk to them about what they should and shouldn’t be doing. Salve Regina is responsibly for their students, however when the students are off campus they are on their own. This goes for any college.
Like i said, you have to be outgoing and look for things to do in your free time at Salve. They will not come to you or maybe you’ll be lucky and they will come to you. You don’t know but you can’t sit around. If you sit in your dorm all night and day, that is your own fault.
If you end up not liking the school for social reasons then that’s not the school’s problem. No wonder the administration responded with “Yeah, I don’t know what you want me to say.” Seems like a good answer to me. They can’t change a students personality and social skills.
Saying that the only opportunities students have to socialize is when they are 21 is rediculous. What do you do at home? Do you meet new people? where do you meet them? Most likely not in bars. Go out! You can go support Salve’s athletics and go to a game like hockey, football, baseball, etc. You can get a bunch of your dorm friends to go out to the shops in newport. Or you could just go out walking with some friends (plain and simple) the campus is beautiful. There is also a movie theater in town and an ice rink lasting from November to March. There are great places to eat too. I could go on and on. Chances are the sudents have work to do for their classes anyway. work comes first. You’re not going to have a week full of free time.
College life and personal life are two seperate things.
No CommentMy oldest child attended Salve Regina University as a freshman in fall 2008. This school was chosen after an exhausting process of researching many, many colleges. I was an active viewer of College Confidential threads while we were searching for the right school. Unfortunately, very little was written about SRU. It is my intention to save another student from making an uninformed decision to attend this school. I only wish someone had really “filled me in.”
We visited Salve three times while my daughter was still in high school. We feel we were duped into believing this was a top rate college, offering all the normal opportunities for learning as well as fun in the confines of a very safe and absolutely beautiful campus.
We believed the school had the students’ best interest at heart. We were fooled.
After a miserable first semester, here are some truths about Salve.
-There are absolutely no campus sponsored events beyond the first week of school. When you drop your child off, you will see posters advertising orientation type fun.I realize now the college was trying to give the impression that there would be socializing opportunities- (good PR while the parents were in town.). Unfortunately, the activities are very juvenile and, therefore, not well attended. The offerings included an ice cream social, a rock painting activity, bingo, and a movie -all in the first six days of school. Beyond this first week, there was absolutely nothing to do. There were no opportunities for students to gather as a student body and meet each other. Despite the small size of the class, it was not unusual for students to only know the names of classmates in surrounding dorm rooms.
Oh yes, there is a student center. It is a tiny, cramped, dark room in the basement of one building. The only people who go there are the people who have a work study job to oversee the place.
-The school’s major focus is preventing alcohol abuse. The RA’s are so strict that there are nightly checks every two hours of each dorm room. “Just cause” is not required for a search, and anybody under any suspicion is written up and fined. One ridiculous incident- 2 girls were being rowdy so the RA assumed that there was something funny in their Snapple bottles. She wrote the girls up even though she had no proof that any substance abuse had occurred.
-During orientation, much information is given to parents about the school’s efforts to make the freshman adjustment a smooth one. The “New Students Seminar” is described as a cluster of freshman who have two classes together, one academic and one to discuss the freshman transition and address the concerns students might have. This second class is a sham as half of the time it cancelled and when they do actually meet, students are only asked a cursory “how is everyone doing?”
-While there are plenty of opportunities to shop in the town of Newport, there are no nighttime hangouts the students can get into without being 21. What this means is that students stay in their rooms watching movies and playing board games like Disney’s Scene It (I kid you not). My daughter and all of her friends did not go out (other than to get dinner at Panera twice) for an entire semester.
Many students traveled to other colleges on weekends. This is very indicative of a problem and causes the students to take unnecessary risks. They are traveling late at night in an area they are unfamiliar with. My daughter heard harrowing tales of students being stranded in other towns because the buses stopped running at a certain time and they did not know how to get a cab to get home.
Safety is another concern. We were told there was a person on duty at each dorm to screen who was coming into each building. This is a complete lie as nobody works the lobby. Though the neighborhood seems very safe, there was a sexual assault reported very recently just outside the borders of the school. ( I do realize this could happen anywhere).
The most troubling thing about my experience with this school is that I came to realize that the administration did not care at all about the students. Several phone calls and a very serious letter were left unanswered. When I pursued it to the point that a dean finally got on the phone with me, he sounded like an uneducated, hostile buffoon. He said in response to my well thought- out heartfelt and very respectful letter, “Yeah, I don’t know what you want me to say.” I was so shocked by his rude and cavalier manner in light of the serious problems I thought I was bringing to his attention.
In retrospect, I have concluded that my daughter was only a number. It seems they expect to lose a large percentage of students after freshman year. This probably works for them as dorming facilities are fewer for upper classmen. The focus and any money is spent on recruiting a large freshman class which will then lose many students by sophomore year. It is likely they NEED to dwindle the population in order to have room. This allows them to ignore the adjustment needs of the freshman and the recreational needs of the entire student body.
It is not surprising that my daughter left after the fall semester and is now very happy at her new school. We have come to learn that many students transferred out as she did. Many others say, that while they will transfer, their parents won’t let them do so until they finish a year (not a semester).
It is not clear to me how the school keeps any of its students. I surmise that perhaps socializing opportunities are better once students live off campus in houses and that the town could be a lot of fun the closer one got to age 21.
I also would like to make clear that my daughter was not looking for a “party school”. She is very responsible and was just looking for a school where she could learn, meet people and enjoy a well rounded college experience. Thankfully, we have found that at Wagner College.