Elmhurst College

I had a great time at Elmhurst College. It’s really easy to get involved in the different programs and in the end I graduated through the Honors Program, with 3 different honors organizations that I was a part of and with a double major in Music and Computer Science with a minor in Audio Engineering. My classes were almost always great with professors being knowledgable and the resources being good. If you’re considering Elmhurst and want to ask me more, send me a message here on Unilocal

My experience with Elmhurst College was’t that great. I only spent a semester attending classes on their campus, and didn’t feel Elmhurst college was the right fit for me. The college is very small with little resources. Elmhurst College does have some wonderful professors who will do almost anything to help you succeed and some you might not be able to connect with. I also wasn’t impressed with elmhurst excessive fees for almost everything. If your looking for a small and quiet campus and already know a lot about your major you might have a better experience than I did. I would recommend comparing Elmhurst College to other colleges including community colleges before enrolling.

Graduated From their Nursing Program in 2012. Got a job right away currently completing a masters Not going to lie, it is a very rigorous program. Started with about a 100+ nursing students freshman year only about 30 graduated. Great campus great memories

Terrible administration, and extremely expensive. I wince a little bit writing a bad review because my graduate professors have been amazing, absolutely wonderful, and that’s important. However, its so expensive that even after FAFSA, you’re still left with tons of expenses. Because it’s such a small school, the course offerings are sparse, so you could actually delay your graduation by up to a full year because if you don’t catch a class spot while its there, it won’t be offered again for two semesters.(if you’re lucky). In addition, the financial aid department is ruthless and unwilling to work with you and offer reasonable payment plans. January term classes are to be paid up front, in my case it was $ 1800 for one class, and they refused to work out a payment plan for me. The woman told me, «I don’t know what to tell you, put it on a credit card.» I attended St. Xavier University for my undergrad degree and while similar in costs, the financial aid departments and administration actually have their stuff together, and they are so helpful. Students and parents who are college hunting, consider another school… you’ll get just as good of a degree from somewhere like Governors State for half the cost.

Fantastic place that left me with lots of great memories. If you think you’ll just coast through better look somewhere else. The standards are incredibly high but in the end all of the hard work really pays off.
Yes, they are expensive.
Yes, the parking is awful.
Is this some small community-​like college? Absolutely NO! Elmhurst College is recognized as one of the best private colleges in Illinois.

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I am coming at this from a different angle… I do not know if Elmhurst is a good college. I assume that it is.
I am coming from the angle of a neighbor… and Wifey and I are glad they are our neighbor.
We love to walk the «campus».
We love to use the track.
We attend the various outdoor events (jazz concerts etc) and we need to attend one of the indoor event (lectures etc).
Fun to watch the teams practice… be it soccer or football or track.
Very happy to living near EC!

I graduated from Elmhurst College in ’03 and it served it’s purpose. I got an education… a very expensive education. Elmhurst College is a small (about 2−3k students including the grad program) private school located in a residential suburb about 30 west of Chicago. The campus is beautiful. The campus is surrounded my half a million dollar homes and well to do people. There’s not much going on in the area… just a typical suburb with lots of stores and chain restaurants. This isn’t a typical college at all… mostly commuters students that still live at home with their parents. Or adults returning to school for their college education. The best part of this school was the J-​term also know as the January term. You have a month off in January or can study abroad or take a 4 week intensive class on campus. I took classes for most of the J-terms…and one year studied in South America. That was a fun trip! and expensive trip… sometimes I regret going to such a small school. I think sometimes I missed out on a real college experience. Oh well… I’ve graduated, that should be the most important part of it.

I went to Elmhurst College because I was too lazy to drive to Chicago everyday or take the Metra since I got tired of doing that for 4 years to go to Loyola. Well, that was the worst decision ever. The adiministration seem to only just want money from students. They do not care for anything else. There are no parking spaces and you have to wait ³⁰⁄₄₀ minutes to find a parking spot. If you park anywhere you get a ticket? It seems they just want you to take classes and never graduate just so you can pay more money. Financial aid and student accounting are ran by senile people who do not what exactly is going on. The faculty is the only good thing in the school but not all of it is the same. There are faculty who complain that they only have one class and keep telling the students to tell the administration to give them more classes. There is a faculty member that I as a student knew more on the subject than he did. I did not attend the class and did not even bother to buy the book and when I did go to class I slept and I still managed to get an A without any hard work. There is another faculty member who was almost deaf who did not hear what the students said. It is definetely not a place to go to for me. The people who go there and like it probably have their parents pay for everything and they do not know what is a good education or what is a good institution. Even the parties there suck!