<p>What are some strong academic programs that Marquette is generally know for? I'm looking at their Business, Communications, and Education schools. What's the quality of education at Marquette?</p>
<p>Basketball, business and communications and education are all solid. Very regional rep though.</p>
<p>I am really angry with Marquette admissions. I called the school about a certain program to get the details. We drove 7 hours to visit the school and heard the presentation. Then I called back to talk to the department to make sure I understood admissions criteria. To make a long story short, admissions either didn't know or lied about the competive nature of the program. You have to apply to a certain college first. Just make sure you get the whole story and double-check it with the department you're interested in.</p>
<p>Marquette is known around here (Chicago area) for the strength of its health sciences programs -- pre-med, dentistry (with the possibility of direct freshman admittance), physicians' assistant, nursing, physical therapy.<br>
Both engineering and the law school have been the recipients of major gifts in the past year.
We visited this fall and I was pleasantly surprised by the campus. Beautiful student union, gorgeous library, lots of green space for an urban campus.
It's pretty popular with Chicago area kids -- has the reputation of being pretty rigorous, academically.
I'm sorry to hear about your experience, toledo. What program were you interested in?</p>
<p>I just realized that the OP was asking about business and communications. From what I gathered, communications is strong, with very nice facilities in broadcast journalism.</p>
<p>Dentistry, definitely.</p>
<p>But like others have said, it also has a very regional reputation.</p>
<p>My friend loves her french classes there, so I think that the foreign language department must be pretty decent.</p>
<p>The head of the Physician Assistant program actually told me it is harder to get into his program than to get into med. school. To begin with, they have a really small College of Arts and Sciences. Once in, you still have to be accepted into the health sciences so they lose even more students there.</p>
<p>I think PA programs are pretty competitive anywhere. </p>
<p>I just double checked the website on this. I had assumed it was like physical therapy (the program my daughter is interested in). For PT, they have direct freshman admission -- that is, as long as you maintain a certain GPA, you do not have to reapply to the professional phase of the program. This is a very competitive program, also.</p>
<p>For Physician's Assistant, you DO apply to Health Sciences as a pre-PA. If you do well in your prerequisites, you are "preferentially considered" for admission to the professional phase of the program. This still differs from other PA programs I have read about that expect people to have health care experience as EMTs, RNs, etc. The Marquette program takes five years for both a bachelor's and the PA master's.</p>
<p>I'm not sure what you mean when you say they have a "really small" college of arts and sciences. There are over 8,000 undergrads at Marquette and many of them are in LA&S. Do you mean there are fewer majors available?</p>
<p>You do not "have to be accepted" into health sciences from LA&S. You apply directly to Health Sciences. A very small number of people transfer from LA&S into spots in the health sciences as sophomores or juniors. It's harder because most of the spots go to entering freshmen.</p>
<p>Toledo, I do agree with you that it is frustrating to get conflicting answers to your questions. When we attended the Health Sciences open house in September, they were very upfront about the competitive nature of the programs.</p>
<p>Another nice thing about Marquette is that over 90% of freshmen and sophomores live on campus and a majority of upperclassmen live in the immediate area. So you get a real residential college feel, which is unusual for an urban campus.</p>
<p>O.K. I had to call Marquette again. The College of Arts and Sciences takes 1,000 freshman, but Health Sciences College only takes 250. After two years, the PA program accepts 50 students, but usually only 30 of those are their own students. They also accept transfer students or people who already have a degree. Everyone needs 500 hours of health care experience. </p>
<p>My only word of caution here, is to call the colleges directly, to make sure you understand the admissions process.</p>