My son was just accepted and loves the school, my only concern is the safety of the surrounding area? Are there any former/current students that can comment on this. Is it safe to walk around off campus? Do you feel safe when you leave campus and go to restaurants/bars at night?
What have you heard?
I haven’t heard much that’s why I was asking?
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On campus is incredibly safe. UD has a very effective police force that is student friendly.
There will be differing opinions about off campus, many based on assumptions from people who are not students of UD or parents of same.
My son is a sophomore at UD and feels very safe on campus and along the student strip of shops/bars/restaurants off campus. Up Stewart street several blocks from campus is a working class neighborhood that was mentioned as “sketchy” when he first arrived on campus. A few weeks later he needed a haircut and located a barbershop in that area about 1.5 miles from campus. He’s walked there many times since and has had not any issues. He and his roommate have driven (in his roommate’s car) to that neighborhood for shopping/fast-food and had no problems.
Another side of campus is upper-middle-class homes and is used by a lot of some students who jog or bike for exercise. A large cemetery borders a large stretch along Stewart St.
If UD makes your final list, visit if possible to form a better opinion for yourself. A lot of determining how safe a person feels somewhere is often generated less from facts and more from personal perception.
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Thank you for your response. We are actually going up next week for a tour!!
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Seeing that your son is a sophomore, how does he like it? How do you feel about the level of education he is getting? Just curious, I have read a lot of good things but it is always nice to hear from someone with first hand experience!
Seeing that your son is a sophomore, how does he like it? How do you feel about the level of education he is getting? Just curious, I have read a lot of good things but it is always nice to hear from someone with first hand experience!
My son really likes it at UD. He appreciates the educational part of it, but for a teenager it was also good that the non-education part of the equation was positive. He made a few friends early on and that made him happy to be there from the beginning. He’s very satisfied with the dorms/food/classroom buildings/campus part of the experience. His advisors and professors have generally been very helpful and communicate well with him. Most of the students he meets seem to be happy, studious, friendly people.
I’m happy with the quality of the education. He communicated with me frequently during his freshman year and his classes challenged him and were interesting to him. During his college search, I compared Graduate Outcomes for most of the schools that ended up on his final list with each other and with schools ranked in the T30-90 of most ranking sources. There was little difference by and large and that satisfied me.
People will sometimes try to point out the importance of a couple of schools for something like International Banking or some other obscure career that <1% of college graduates move into. However, for the majority of graduates the outcomes for Engineers, Nurses, Communications, Marketing, Education, Economics, etc, graduate outcomes for #150 will align favorably with #42.
TL;DR, My son is very happy at UD.
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100% safe.
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