Boise State University

Certainly a very involved campus that is open to visitors like me. For those that are visiting the city of Boise for the first time, the university makes up a good part of the city, yet on the fringes of downtown. Bronco Stadium is noticeable on campus, and the good folks within the athletic center allow for you to tour the building, as well as get close enough to the famed blue carpet. In fact, the blue carpet alone was the attraction that I wanted to see most.
Downtown Boise also has a satellite campus of the University of Idaho (main campus is north of Boise in Moscow, ID), so please don’t get confused. BSU is actually easy to find within Boise. The school boasts many of the expected amenties, and in talking with the students on campus (mainly rising sophomores and juniors), they seem to like it here.

Just like any large university, the student is responsible for their campus experience, their grades, and their involvement in their education. That means that you have to keep up with your advisor (they aren’t going to call you) and you have stay on top of what you need to do in order to graduate. If you’re proactive, your experience at BSU will be a hundred times better.
The campus is beautiful, the library staff is helpful, and I’ve had several classes with professors who are top-​notch. I’ve especially enjoyed the classes in my major and feel that for the most part the instructors really do care about your work and your ideas.
If the campus, library and the faculty in my major were the sole criteria for evaluating the school, this would be a 4 or 5 star review. However, I don’t like the road the school is travelling by accentuating STEM and the football team over the arts and humanities. There’s more to the student body than business, math and science majors but you wouldn’t know it from the media — nor do the arts and humanities get the budget or attention they deserve from the administration. Boise is a vibrant city in part because artists, musicians and writers make it home — not just tech companies. I wish that BSU would realize this and boost the arts and humanities instead of just STEM and Bronco football.

Do yourself a favor and spend the extra money to go to U of I

I have been working on campus now for about two weeks. Everyone I have interacted with has been very nice and helpful.
The buildings are in great condition and upgrades seem to be happening all over campus.
Campus location is great and there are many great resources for people to utilize.

While visiting town, had a chance to see the Broncos stadium and all I can say is WOW. It is really impressive and worth stopping by to see. The campus looks amazing as well, should have looked around more when I was looking at colleges I guess!

If you’ve never experienced life outside of Boise, this place is great! If you have any sort of connections to a world outside of Boise, this place fails. Nuff said.

The college experience is whatever you make it out to be. The five years I spent here were some of the greatest. I have gotten to know several outstanding individuals who have gone on to become life-​long friends through my involvement in several campus organizations. For being an urban university, they do a great job of reaching out to the commuter students to create a welcoming atmosphere through orientations and student involvement organizations. Of course, who can go wrong with the sporting events?
The one major thing I would change is for this university to have more of a hands-​on curriculum for the Communications department — for example a fully-​functional student-​operated radio/​television station. This would help encourage more gainful experience in the field of choice, especially for a shrinking industry.
Of course there are kinks here and there, however it has been amazing seeing this university grow both academically and athletically to become more competitive.

I was born and raised in Boise so of course I take pride in my city but this University is sorely sub-​par. Sure the football team is doing better than it has in past years and that’s just ducky, but that doesn’t in any way reflect on the education. Having attended a community college in Washington state for my first two years of college I set my standards by the experience I received there, which was a great one. At Boise State University you would be hard pressed to find an employee or faculty member that genuinely cares about helping you succeed. Don’t get me wrong, there are a few, and I greatly appreciate them. For the most part, however, it ‘s all about the bottom line rather than a quality education. This university has some excellent potential seeing as how our football team is helping to draw in more publicity not to mention the wonderful community its located in. If there was more care taken to ensure students success I would then feel as if I attend a college I’m proud of. For now, however, I’m left disappointed, frustrated, and utterly broke (thanks to ever rising tuition).