Marist College

I’m a member of the class of 1999. I had a wonderful experience at Marist. I made lasting friendships and met my husband there. My history professors were great. Dr. Wermuth still remembers me whenever I run into him. The campus is absolutely breathtaking. I come back to visit twice a year. Nothing but good memories!

I will never be able to say something positive about Marist. They allowed me to be enrolled in classes for a over a year before informing me that I did not have the proper paperwork submitted as someone who was home schooled in high school and therefore would never be able to graduate. They took advantage of my time and money.

If you’re looking to get that «college experience» this is the place to go. Seems like they took the most attractive females from the tri-​state area and put them all in this school. Lots of partying. Lots of activities. Make sure to live on campus to fully experience all of it. Academically this school is mediocre. Some of the professors have poor teaching methods, specifically the chemistry staff. If you’re looking for an academically strong school then SUNY New Paltz or Vassar college are better choices in the area. If you’re looking to have fun well… need I say more.

Loved every minute of my 4 years here! Excellent professors, small class size, exceptionally beautiful campus… worth every penny my parents paid… lol!

I spent 6 years of my life at Marist and I don’t regret any single part of it… not even when those student loan bills come in every month.
As an undergraduate, I was an English major, concentrating in literature, The English program there is underrated, in my humble opinion. Marist is known as a communications/​business/​fashion school, and rightfully so as those programs are incredible. However, it should get more attention for its awesome little English department, staffed by some of the most amazing educators I’ve had in my 19 years of schooling. I was an avid reader before, but they completely changed my outlook on literature and ultimately inspired me to pursue becoming a professor myself.
I returned later on to get my Masters in Education there. It’s a young program (I think I may have been the second or third class?) so it’s not perfect, but I also think that education is a hard subject to teach without hands-​on experience, which they ultimately do require. Again, I was mentored by some awesome educators, so what more can you ask for from a college?
Oh, and I did live on campus for three semesters. My first dorm, Champagnat, was renovated a year or two after I was there, so I don’t have anything constructive to say about it since I haven’t been in there since ’01. My second dorm, a suite in Midrise, was nice. I know they were featured on a morning show about the luxury of their dorms, so there you go. The cafeteria is decent, the cafes around campus are good, they have a kickin’ activities center and the library… oh, the library. I’ll be here for another 8 paragraphs if I go into the awesomeness of the library, so I’ll just say that I spent many a relaxing afternoon by a big window overlooking the Hudson reading the 47 389 423 489 books assigned to me as an English major.
Ah, Marist. Good times. I miss you.

Beautiful campus… very competitive to get into, less than a 30% acceptance rate. Freshman dorms are fairly large. Great view of the Hudson. Plenty of activities to do during the day and Poughkeepsie has good nightlife. Nice sense of school spirit! I love it here!!!

This school as I knew it (Class of 2006) was well known for their fashion program, their computer development program and their school of business. If you’re not going for these 3 things, I really suggest going elsewhere because the degree will not give you the notoriety and resources that you should get for the debt you’ll go into by going to this school.
Their science program is okay, but is so heavily focused on pre-​med and pre-​dental stuff that I didn’t learn about public health (the current profession I’m getting my doctorate in) until after I left. I really resent the main guy (I won’t mention his name here) because of that. I ended up getting my degree in political science and the program is too small and the concentrations were too limited to really branch out into anything useful. If you do major in poli sci, declare your concentration early as international because you can take advantage of a lot of cool programs they have.
I was a commuter — didn’t live on campus and am very glad for that because it is a ‘wet’ campus (no matter what they try to tell you) and girls there are known as the ‘bed foxes’, not red foxes. I think campus life is the type of thing where it’s more focused on encouraging your social life and not your academic life — and you be the judge of what actually matters after you graduate :)

Good school for business. Bad school for journalism. Great study abroad program and internship program. Nice view of the Hudson River.

MAAAARRRIIIISSST!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
I spent four years here. I have no idea how to write a paragraph review of it. Wooooooooooooooo! I’ve had a lot of good experiences here. Wooo! Some comfortable townhouses to live in, beautiful campus right on the Hudson, and a decent education. Woooohooooooooo! MAAARISST! But I guess the only advice I can give is try to check out the HuMarists skit shows at the end of each semester and get in line an hour early. Five stars!
WWWWOOOOOOO! GO RED FOXES!!!