Christopher Newport University

WOW… if I hadn’t attended GMU and had the guts to go away to school back in the day, this would’ve been my go to college. My sister is entering her Junior year and asked my parents and I to help move her into the sorority row just across the street from campus. I was thoroughly impressed with the design of the dorms which are located in the same complex as the sorority and fraternity houses.
The house she and 8 other girls are in is set up roommate style with 3 girls to an apartment each with living room, bathroom, and full kitchen. and a shared living area at the entrance for all 3 apartments to use. it’s really cool and definitely better than a dorm in my opinion! After the move, my sister took us around campus and it is STUNNING. With only about 5,000 students, the campus is clean, bright, and just feels nice to be at (again, I’m a little jealous over here).
We passed the food hall, library, and classrooms. and the newest addition which holds the President’s office– everything about this campus is just gorgeous. I can’t wait to come visit her when school has started, it seemed like a really great environment and somewhere you’d want to succeed.

Totally amazing campus! Every building is brand new (no building looks to be over 10 yrs. old). Given that tuition, room and board for a in-​state student is only $ 22k/​yr (²⁰¹³⁄₂₀₁₄ academic year) you are getting the bang for your buck… However, the admissions standards are pretty high… with median HS GPA of about 3.2
The classes are small and everyone from the dining hall manger is very approachable. minutes from the Beach (Va. Beach) and a mid-​size city of Norfolk, a lot had to be offered. So if you want a small campus with top notch professors and big campus type of funding, this is your pick!

A must see! Very creative. And I will take my kids next time. Also great for a date:)
Don’t get the lifesavers they were old!!!

this review is about the campus not the academics: the stately campus is a good place to run or walk, particularly useful if you want to throw on a couple extra miles of different scenery after a run on the loop trail in neighboring Mariner’s Museum Park. I am not familiar with the university as I live in New Jersey so I don’t have input about the academics.

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The school was nice and had several new buildings on campus among some older ones. While the new buildings were beautiful, once inside, they did not seem warm and inviting & extremely sanitized for a college campus. We visted during exam week, so we did not much student activity. CNU appeared to be a good state school, but personally, I’m not sure if I would come from out of state.

I have no idea why the address listed for CNU is under Shoe Lane, but it’s definitely on University Place haha.
I attended CNU for my 4 years of undergrad, and overall my experience at CNU was very pleasant.
I have enjoyed most of my classes and professors, and never had any major issues with anything.
Campus itself is lovely. Once all of the construction is done, the campus will be gorgeous! It’s completely changed since I first started. Since then, they’ve knocked down a few buildings and put up twice as many. The new buildings are extravagant. The student union, library, new McMurran Hall are all very nice. Sometimes, I forget I’m on a college campus while in the new buildings.
The dorms are state of the art, brand new and very nice. I lived in York River East, Potomac South and James River Hall. I never lived on East Campus, but my friends did, and the apartments were just the same.
The campus dining halls could serve better food I suppose, but I’m sure the food is better than some colleges.
I really reccomend this school and wish I could have stayed for grad school. Hopefully in the future, they’ll offer more graduate level programs, but for now, they are lacking in that area.