Bay Path University
- 4 Year
- LONGMEADOW, MA
Women's CollegeGrad School
Bay Path University Reviews
Rating 3.8 out of 5 672 reviews
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This school struggles with retaining staff and students, especially in recent years, and for good reason. If BPU can find a way to screw you over, they will and they'll do it ten times over. The academics are average at best, old traditions have died out, and there is nothing special about the school. This school has truly horrific communication and this is the only thing that hasn't changed with new staff coming in and old staff leaving. The happy, close, connected student body is a facade. Students who are the face of the school are miserable there and socially it is like reliving high school- very cliquey and a lot of drama. It's a small school but in the way that you feel suffocated by it. Campus is nice but the dorms are awful and aren't maintained. The food you get on prospective student days is the only time it's good. No party scene/dry campus, but there are lots of schools within a 45 min drive. Longmeadow is nice but the residents don't love the college, not a lot nearby.
An overall positive experience! Bay Path is located in a quiet town and is extremely safe (like accidentally leave something of yours somewhere, and it will be still be there six hours later safe). The professors are extremely supportive of their students, and are willing to accommodate you given you communicate with them.
I overall enjoy being able to continue school here. Very adaptable for a single mother. The course went by pretty fast and I was able to keep up
Super easy to get into and very accommodating to student that potentially have financial struggles. The faculty and staff really work with the students.
Hugely supportive of a working mother going back to school. Amazing environment for academic and professional women.
Bay Path University is a small, friendly community where everyone knows everyone. The campus is quiet, professors priority is to the students they teach, and the school is always finding ways to give back to the community.
Bay Path is a decent college for basic education. The classes are small so you can get a lot of One on One with professors. Majority of the professors are kind and helpful.
The dining hall used to be good but now is has went down hill with a lack of options as well as has served undercooked food plenty of times.
Residential life is poor. The dorms are out dated and in a bad conditions. Noone cleans up after themselves and the air vents are not clean, which makes those with allergies miserable. I have encountered many broken fixtures in my room as well as a lack of working toilets, showers, washers, and dryers.
The dining hall used to be good but now is has went down hill with a lack of options as well as has served undercooked food plenty of times.
Residential life is poor. The dorms are out dated and in a bad conditions. Noone cleans up after themselves and the air vents are not clean, which makes those with allergies miserable. I have encountered many broken fixtures in my room as well as a lack of working toilets, showers, washers, and dryers.
I made friends on campus very quickly. It was easy to get involved with different clubs and activities and the professors and staff are all really helpful. I just wish the communication between departments, students, and families would be more clear and frequent.
It's a great school with a bunch of different opportunities to meet wonderful people and get all the information you need for your major.
I absolutely LOVE Bay Path, I honestly don't want to leave but they dont have the masters program I'm looking to get. I love my advisor Jameson Van Zetten, he's organized and proactive. As an online full-time student I have come to realize classes are well organized. Also, I love that i was still able to go on campus as an online student. Being an online student made it so easy to be as flexible as possible. The only complaint I have is that the weekly assignments for online classes are due Saturday nights and I personally believe Sunday nights would make things more convenient for students being that the weekends tend to be busy with family time.
I loved the flexibility that the masters program provided. It was easy when the pandemic hit as I was used to having remote classes.
The American woman's online college a part of bay path university, was an experience that I can recommend. They are supportive of women from all walks of life. The academics while excelleratwd were compressive and thought provoking. Adding to my experience are the relationships I have nurtured that have enhanced my professional career
Little to no financial aid unless very low class. Academic rating system is unfair for future graduates applying to grad school since it's A- or A grading scale which highly affects your GPA. Mandatory internship-no pay. Very high tuition for minimal campus gatherings and poor dormitories.
I love my school! It is so open to new ideas, and everyone is so kind. I love the environment, I always feel so safe.
I am a POC and I experienced profiling at this school from a roommate that was in psychology. This school is another review mentioned is PWI. I was absent from college for 8 years but they allowed me to load up on 6 courses during my first semester here. Ended up having a medical emergency, which affected my ability to pass my classes. They forced me to withdraw from the school and threw me under the bus by putting F's and W's on my transcript as if it was my fault that I had an illness. This school has violated my rights as a POC and a person that had a medical emergency. The PW girls were also very cliche, immature, and basically got away with anything they want at this school, especially as a group, including some RA's on some extreme right-wing websites like Alex Jones. When I pointed this activity out, I got pulled in as if I was disturbing the PW females. This was during 2016. I am finally getting my degree after medical delays but BP still has the F's and W's on my transcript.
Easy Education, self paced, great for working Parents.
Some really wonderful teachers who want to see all students successfully succeed.
Some really wonderful teachers who want to see all students successfully succeed.
As a going-on-sophomore undergraduate student at BPU, I’ve always felt supported by admissions, student financial services, and professors. Everyone has taken as much time to help me as necessary and gone above and beyond for me as an individual. My only issue is how gendered the education is, considering how large the LGBT+ community is here - lots of non-binary students, even a couple men, but the university seems to only recognize the female majority.
I am currently BAy path student and I am so happy.They are very helpful and understandable.Bay path was my first choice.I transferred my other universities classes and I completed 48 credits 1,5 year.
I am currently a transfer sophomore student at Bay Path and I have met the most incredible people there; amazing professors, staff, and students in general. As a student of color, the multicultural office has provided so many resources and a place of solace when I feel lost and need some motivation. I would choose going there over and over again
Bay Path is a known PWI so feeling like an outcast is already a given when you’re a POC. However, you would think they would cater a little more to POC students. Bay Path University does offer an on campus multicultural affairs office. However, this is more geared toward Hispanic students. In addition, we also have a black student union, but it’s not really giving a platform to speak out more about it. As a POC, I just feel Bay Path University should make the campus more welcomed and/or more ways to bring us POC and nonPOC closer with events or implementing the education in the courses. In addition, there shouldn’t be no nonblack professors teaching about black history. That’s all.