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The Facts

Salisbury University is a rather moderately sized, public school located in the town of Salisbury, Maryland, and is home to over 5,420 undergraduate students and approximately 400 graduate and part-time professional students. The university is actually divided up into several smaller undergraduate colleges including schools of liberal arts, science and technology, business, as well as educational and professional studies. The school also has extensive general education requirements with courses in the areas of English, history, arts and humanities, mathematics, as well as laboratory sciences. The school also have an extensive preprofessional program with degrees offered in chemistry, law, health, dental, optometry, osteopathic medicine, pharmacy, physical therapy, and even veterinary medicine. The school offers its students a huge range of many varied degrees, however, some of the most popular with students include majors in the areas of business administration, education, communications, biology, as well as nursing.

Admission to Salisbury University is quite competitive, and the applicant pool has been growing significantly larger with each passing admissions cycle. Last year, over 6,550 students applied for admission to the school, and approximately 2,880 of those students were accepted. Eventually however, only about 950 of the admitted students actually enrolled for the coming Fall semester. The admitted students had an average combined SAT score ranging from 1040 to 1220, and an average comprehensive ACT score ranging from 26 to 30. Additionally, over 52% of those admitted were ranked in the top 25% of their high school graduating class with an average high school GPA of about 3.48.

Salisbury University has a very manageable student to faculty ratio of 16:1, and is rare to find a class, even an introductory lecture, with more than 24 students, and the majority of classes have even fewer. In general, students say that their professors are accessible and easy to talk to, particularly in comparison with other similarly sized public schools, however, there are some teachers who seem to be more into their own careers and research, and leave right after classes.

The Social Scene

The town of Salisbury, Maryland is a cute, small town that students seem to be quite affectionate of, even though it doesn’t really offer them much in the way of entertainment. In fact, most students own cars, and often take weekend road trips to nearby Washington D.C. and even New York City on the longer weekend breaks. Unfortunately, freshmen students aren’t allowed to keep cars on campus, but we hear it’s pretty easy to hitch a ride with one of the friendly students.

There are a few fraternities and sororities at the school, but they aren’t really very popular with students. People are more into community service projects rather than partying, although we do hear that drinking happens quite frequently, particularly on the weekends.

The dating scene is pretty manageable, and we hear there are some very warmhearted, very attractive guys and girls just waiting to be asked on a date...

What’s Good

“The school is basically the perfect size; you feel like you’re at a small liberal arts college, but you get all the benefits of a large university.”

“There are tons of great student clubs, and you don’t have to be a Greek to be involved. In fact, it’s probably better that you’re not.”

“If you’re an in state students, you are basically paying peanuts to get an incredible liberal arts education.”

What’s Bad

“People are kind of prudish here; they don’t want to let loose and have fun on the weekends. There’s no real release from stress accumulated during the week.”

“The town doesn’t have anything to do, and the only escape exists for those with cars, but as freshmen, you’re not allowed to have them, so you’re stuck.”

“The requirements are kind of dull, and the classes remind me a lot of the stuff I took in high school.”

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