<p>Hi guys, I’m a graduate international students and I got a scholarship offers from three US universities.
One of these is Rockford University, it’s a very small campus one hour and a half from Chicago IL, The school seems good, there’s a lot of good reviews and the ranking is good too, I was just wondering if living in such a small college isn’t going to be boring after a while. Only 450 studnets live on campus and 1350 are the students enrolled.
I was hoping someone who’s attending this school could give me a heads up on this.
The other school I was considering is in Missouri, and it’s a big campus (10000 students). </p>
<p>I don’t know anything about the university, but it is in Rockford which is a large suburban city with things to do. They have a baseball team (if you’re in to that sport), mall an other city life. There are also several large state parks and forest preserves if you need some place for nature. It’s very close to the Rockford Airport and major highways so transportation shouldn’t be an issue.</p>
<p>Are the 450 students mostly ug or grad students? If undergrad, then it might be tough to find peers to want to do things with on weekends. But if this is mostly a grad student population, it might not be too bad.</p>
<p>Good luck with your selection!</p>
<p>I don’t go to Rockford, but I did go to another small campus - 2300 students total on a campus that took about 7 minutes to walk across, diagonally, if you were sauntering. And yes, it did get boring after a while. I still enjoyed myself and had a blast, but after 2 years I felt like I had done “everything” and knew everybody, and I was eager to move onto ‘bigger and better’ things. However, the caveat is that I didn’t stay very engaged in student life after my sophomore year - I studied abroad junior year and then in my senior year, I just hunkered down and did my best to finish so I could go to grad school.</p>
<p>So a small campus can become boring after a small amount of time, BUT if you stay engaged and curious you can overcome that.</p>