Brigham Young University Reviews

  • 165 Reviews
  • Provo (UT)
  • Annual Tuition: $6,304
91% of 165 students said this degree improved their career prospects
97% of 165 students said they would recommend this school to others
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Student & Graduate Reviews

Bryan
  • Reviewed: 3/18/2016
  • Degree: Art & Design
"Had a great time. The school is full of motivated students and professors, and there's a real professional quality about the approach to education. I definitely give it a five star review, but with one caveat: it's not a place to go if you want to doubt the "Why" behind why we're here on Earth (if you're already a member of BYU's religion, LDS Christian). People are told to accept certain answers, and even if I believe them, I do dislike not being able to come up with other answers for myself."
Cameron Birt
  • Reviewed: 3/1/2016
  • Degree: Accounting
"My graduate program is very rigorous, and I feel that it is preparing me well for my future career. The faculty is amazing, and everyone in the program is very good at assisting students in obtaining jobs immediately after graduation."
Scarlet Elkington
  • Reviewed: 2/25/2016
  • Degree: Liberal Studies
"For the price the school is the best bang for your buck you are going to get. It is a very respected school that has a very good reputation. The problems that I had with the school were class size, the limited amount of space in the programs of study in which you had to apply to get into, but if did not get in what are you supposed to do?! Then you end up wasting your time at a school hoping to get into your program of study. The campus is beautiful, and well maintained."
Jared Collette
  • Reviewed: 12/31/2015
  • Degree: Teaching
"I loved my undergraduate experience at BYU Provo. It was ultra-challenging yet deeply rewarding. I felt like I was exposed to great literature and ideas and taught by brilliant professors. I felt safe and made lots of life-long friendships. Ideas were discussed and debated in class. I greatly enjoyed the LDS-standards culture. It is a great place for someone that doesn't drink and believes in sex after marriage because there are a lot of people there with similar views. The tuition is super-reasonable. The cost of living is fairly inexpensive. There are also a lot of extra-curricular activities, sports, live bands, comedy, dances, art exhibits, etc. Lots of fun positive things to do."
Christopher Finuf
  • Reviewed: 12/14/2015
  • Degree: Neuropsychology
"I'll start with the pros. Brigham Young University campus is surrounded by majestic mountains, whose beauty is compounded in the winter with copious snow fall. I'm kind of a nature enthusiast so this was important to me. When it comes to professors, resources, and technologies BYU has some of the best. I personally worked towards a MS in neuroscience and had the privilege working with an MRI machine right on campus. BYU is one of the few universities without a medical school to have its own MRI facility. This fact was a huge pull in getting me to apply to BYU. Lastly and probably the best plus is BYU’s tuition prices. If you haven’t heard about them, look them up. You will not find a better education for a better price. I guarantee it! For grad school specifically, I was only paying $3,500 a semester which is a steal no matter where you go. Now, I will list some cons. There aren’t many. The only one I can think of is that the university is situated on a mountain so if you walk to campus you will have to hike up a hill each day. But I guess that’s why they call it a higher education, right?"
Rebecca Howland
  • Reviewed: 11/14/2015
  • Degree: Psychology
"BYU had an excellent psychology program. It was rigorous, but also manageable. I learned quite a few techniques that I still use to this day as a counselor. If you are majoring in psychology, please do be aware that at some point you will need to get a Master's in order to work in the field. I did know that going in, so it was a good experience."
True Blue BYU
  • Reviewed: 11/10/2015
  • Degree: Business
"Brigham Young University and the Marriott School of Management is one of the top business schools in the country and ranks as the top school for Accounting. The students come from all over the globe and most are multi-lingual. The program provides excellent and direct application of academics and practical experience from top professors and leading executives who share their expertise with students. They have a fantastic internship support system to land excellent opportunities and this feeds into their placements of new graduates into top companies."
GME
  • Reviewed: 11/9/2015
  • Degree: English
"BYU was where I really understood who I am. I felt academically challenged, but also supported by the professors. I love the atmosphere of that school and the balance it gives between social, academic, and spiritual experiences."
Anonymous
  • Reviewed: 11/9/2015
  • Degree: Liberal Studies
"BYU is a great institution. The professors are very helpful and extremely talented and intelligent. It wasn't a cake walk, but it was worth it."
Anonymous
  • Reviewed: 11/9/2015
  • Degree: Biology
"I enjoyed attending BYU. I was required to take a mixture of classes in both biology and education, and because of this the major is quite a long one. Some of the required classes seemed a bit arbitrary, like having to take Entomology but not any other specialty class such as Ornithology or Mammalogy. The pedagogy classes were for the most part beneficial, depending on the teacher. What I would have enjoyed more of was time in the middle and high school classrooms. We spent one semester in a practicum observing a teacher and then spend one semester in student teaching. It would have been nice to have a bit more. Overall thought I felt prepared to enter the workforce as a teacher and that my classes has been educational and practical."
Pcrawf
  • Reviewed: 11/9/2015
  • Degree: Biology
"BYU has a great atmosphere and a great learning environment. They promote not only education but good morals and values. It's in a beautiful location with lots of outdoor activities nearby."
Lisa Hatch
  • Reviewed: 10/21/2015
  • Degree: Education
"This university was a great experience. As it a religious school that aligned with my religious beliefs, I was comfortable with the expectations and guidelines of the school. The support to earn my teaching license was fantastic (taking the praxis, filling out paperwork, etc.) I would like to see the program geared more to real-life teaching experiences. Practicum and student teaching were definitely helpful, but many of the assignments did not apply to my experience as a teacher in the real world."
Anonymous
  • Reviewed: 10/13/2015
  • Degree: Biology
"Great experience. I graduated with no debt and was accepted to an Ivy League medical school."
Kristy Litster
  • Reviewed: 10/10/2015
  • Degree: Elementary Education
"I would like to note ahead of time, that since my experience, my college program failed to be certified for teachers (probably due to some of the items I note in my review), they since changed a lot of the way they run their program (of which I am not familiar), and are now certified to train teachers. As such, I recommend that you do your own research into how the program functions now should you want to attend this institution. During my experience, there was no cohesion in the program. This means that the school of elementary education was broken into 5 different cohorts based upon the 5 different school districts that students would be attending for their practicum experiences and student teaching. Each program had their own set of classes and instructional methods as well as observation and in-class experiences. None of them were the same. For example, the Nebo Cohort (which I attended my first half) was very organized. Each of the methods classes were designed to focus students towards the 10 standards of Utah Teachers and helping students prepare their final portfolios they will need to move from a level 1 teacher to a level 2 teacher. They taught four different types of lesson teaching styles and expected students to apply all four methods in their practicum experience to gain expertise in a variety of methods. The preservice teachers were assigned to their own classroom with their own cooperating teacher and had opportunities to teach and work with students every day. Alpine cohort, on the other hand, was disorganized (I worked with them my second half). Their portfolio was a hodgepodge of anything and everything you ever did. There was no organization or implication for how those records would relate to the 10 standards or the final organized portfolio for teacher transitions. The assessments class was taught by a celebrity who was gone more than he was there and didn't know the materials. He instead used class time to promote his book (not related in any way to the topic of the class). In school experiences grouped 2-4 preservice teachers to one cooperating teacher. This made it so that you were not allowed to teach or work with students more than one time in a week period. So it was luck of the draw for whether you got a great experience or a horrible one."
Anonymous
  • Reviewed: 9/29/2015
  • Degree: Social Sciences
"I loved the learning and opportunities to grow in many ways I had in College. Particularly the ability to really dig in, understand an issue, and form my beliefs through discussion with others."
Papa Smurf
  • Reviewed: 9/29/2015
  • Degree: Political Science
"Great school, but you will need to be proactive. Professors or staff don't reach out to you as much as you would expect, so expect to contact your professors and administration more than you normally might to get the best experience."
Kochdog
  • Reviewed: 9/4/2015
  • Degree: Communications
"Awesome place to learn and to grow. Very helpful faculty and great student body."
Anonymous
  • Reviewed: 9/4/2015
  • Degree: Biomedical Sciences
"Great experience! Great ongoing experiment in cultivating an environment of spiritual and secular learning."
Troy
  • Reviewed: 9/1/2015
  • Degree: Industrial Design
"I love that college helps me get the job I want. However I wish we could do without the general requirements."
Bucky Smalls
  • Reviewed: 9/1/2015
  • Degree: Cultural Studies
"Really great school with a very high quality level of education and very affordable."