University of Alabama Campus Visits: Share Your Tips & Recommendations

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Did you recently visit University of Alabama at Huntsville? Share your experience with the community! Post your review in the comments below.

Some ideas for what to share:

  • When did you visit?
  • Where did you stay? Would you recommend it?
  • Where did you eat? Did you try any local specialties?
  • How did you get there? What’s the best transportation mean to get to-from the campus?
  • What was the campus vibe?
  • What did you think of the dorms?
  • What are some must-see things in or around campus?
  • How were the school facilities?
  • Did you like it more or less than you thought you would? Why?
  • Did anything surprise you?

We’d love to hear any tips or recommendations you can share for people planning their visit!

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We visited in late summer. We are only a few hours away and needed this to be a fairly quick trip, so we didn’t do any exploring around town.
-Every dorm on campus is basically the same layout, and it’s a good one with a living room and kitchenette with 2 bedrooms and a bath on each side. This seems like it would be easy to live in, and has the advantages of communal living (students aren’t isolated) with privacy (everybody has their own small bedroom so that they can sleep and study on their own schedule).
-When we talked with the person running the engineering information session, we asked for suggestions for a kid who would come in with the first year of an engineering program mostly done. They suggested that, rather than graduate quickly, kid could choose to take a lower courseload and intern at one of the many nearby companies during the school year. The idea of getting to do real work during the year really made an impression, and at the next school that we visited one of the things that the senior asked about was how much real experience they could get, with this being the comparison.
-We were there on a freshman orientation long weekend, so this may not be typical, but people were really friendly. The facilities that we saw seemed new or well maintained. The food in the dining hall was reasonably good.

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