University of North Texas

The University of North Texas is a fantastic school. I attended and graduated from there over 20 years ago. The school has come a very long way and continues to lead in many categories. Unfortunately, football is not one of those. Hopefully one of these days the athletic director will put together the puzzle and get us a football program. Many great things and tons of potential for this University to become a national leader. Go mean green!

WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! Transfer students, this place is foolishly on the hunt for money. Be mindful of your schedule, advisors will intentionally overlook your transfer transcript. The GOAL is to have you take their courses that have been previously taken at a different institution. WHY? So you can spend money on their courses. Also, once this has been brought to their attention, it’s almost like pulling teeth to recoup your money for their error. Of course, you will be instructed to leave a message to visit with the dean. No response! Days pass, schedule is to busy for an appointment. Next excuse, conveniently, last appointment is during the time of your last class.
Staff in the administrative department has several emails. Professors and TA’s have multiple emails. Therefore, depending on which email selected from the (school directory), UNT will deny ever receiving your correspondence. Please keep a paper trail.
Nonetheless, peers seem to be friendly.
Awaiting the day the government conduct an investigation of UNT Denton with regard to mishandling school funds, overcharging students, and embezzlement.

It has potential to be GREAT. I went here years ago and I think I liked it or I was just too young and silly to understand anything about real life. However, as an adult with life experience and who’s lived outside of TEXAS and USA. I see the following:
1. They over charge. I asked for my bill. They said go to accounting. I went to accounting. They said they would have bill a couple of weeks before school started. TRUE they did my F/​A. kicked in they took ALL OF IT and I Owed them money. I was baffled how could they take so much money? BUT I wanted to go back there b/​c I had a goal to finish my degree because It was my goal like years ago.
Problem: Most colleges will have up to minute totals for your bill. You never need to worry. But UNT owes over 75 million dollars to the state of TEXAS so they care probably CHEATING, SCAMMING, or SCHEMING. Can you find a REAL form that explains the exact amount of charges? I thought I had one the charges were like 4k more. I based my move on having enough money for expenses, work, gas, food, etc. WRONG… They are overcharging students so that they can repay TEXAS. According to news the manipulated paperwork and recieved EXTRA money from TEXAS but now they say they won’t overcharge students. BUT I noticed I was overcharged. But some students don’t care because their parents pay and this is all silly to even share in their minds. But for those adults who have to budget, try to finish to get better paying jobs, then it might be important. Here’s the stories
Next… Parking is terrible. Most of my classes had Teachers Assistants. ONe Professor was not from USA and she was hard to understand. I had BIOLOGY. I should have taken at community college. But I have so many credits they only take so many towards degree from other schools. ADVISOR was in my opinion RUDE. I don’t think it’s necessary for students to go to advising each semester. Give them the list of classes they need and let them work off of that. Seriously it was awful.
Snobby: Many of the people are snobby for NO reason at all. Some students dress poorly and in the winter you’ll see them without coats, proper shoes, which leads me to believe they might be mentally ill. Parking was a big problem for me. Also they will sell you passes to park at Fouts but then on game days they want you to MOVE YOUR CAR or it WILL BE TOWED. So why can’t students park there during special events? I guess because they want to double dip and cheat students.
A lot of over crowded classes, many have Teachers Asst/T.A.‘s who are Grad. Students and it seems unfair for us to pay them the full price. I’m transferring to a smaller school where I can at least have some online classes, Saturday Classes, or at least T/​Th classes. I cannot stand going to school EVERY SINGLE day. Especially since the parking sucks, construction everywhere, and the HEAT. Then in winter the cold. I don’t like that. So I need smaller classes and to pay less. I think they are overcharging. But who knows. It needs to be remodelled, old LABS, Old auditoriums, they have a new stadium but sorry football team. LOL I like Denton. I wished UNT was a better school with more emphasis on students and their success. But it’s not in my opinion.

The ONLY good experience I had at UNT, was with financial aid. Other than that, they do NOT care about the students other than their money. I have waited almost TWO weeks for a transcript to be sent to begin graduate school. I called a week and half ago and they confirmed they had received my request, and that it would go out early this week; it has not. Even the smaller university I attended, SFA, sent my transcript they day I requested it. Parking is not only expensive, but a complete joke. Advisers don’t know what they are doing and not only signed me up for a class that I had to get on a bus to take, but scheduled it 15 minutes after another class. They also signed me up for the entirely wrong math class and when I called to question what had happened, that adviser was «out for a few days.» I am extremely grateful I did NOT get my degree from UNT and as a high school teacher, I recommend my students not to attend as well.

I enjoy being a student at UNT but sometimes the liberal population is overwhelming. I have had great experiences with all of my professors though! There was only one class I have taken at UNT where I did not think the professor was a good fit. I believe he was a grad student and hadn’t exactly tried moving on from the college life.

I loved attending UNT. Wish I could go back to college! Denton is the perfect place to live and go to college. Great vibe, fun nightlife, and cute coffee shops. Miss it everyday :)

Since i’m graduating from here soon, and I spend so much of my life here lately. I’ll go ahead and throw it a review. I attended for 2 years, and I’m rather pleased. For a big university, they do seem to have their stuff together. I transferred from Collin College, and every step of the way there was a nightmare. Admission, financial aid, bookstore, etc. Okay. to be fair, the UNT bookstore is garbage. Don’t go. But everything else there is ran very efficiently. They have so many activities for students, which is awesome. But they definitely cater to traditional students who live on-​campus. So many of us commute, so they should do a little more to include us as well. As far as the education itself, I’ve had wonderful professors. Really, all but maybe 3 professors were fantastic. Let’s see what else. OH parking. It’s a nightmare. If you don’t have an early class, that really sucks. You pay so much, and you have to stalk people in the parking lot to see if they are going to leave or not. There is a lot of construction going on right now with the new union being built, which is annoying if you have classes over by that way. The facilities are great, the gym is huge and awesome. I’m mad that I never step foot into until a few months before I graduate. Ugh. Overall, if you are looking for a university that decently priced compared to others, will give you a high quality education, and is overall. pretty awesome. look no further! :)

I have been attending UNT since 2010, and I love it. I am a music education major, and I’m very fortunate to go to a school with such an awesome music school. I have worked really hard here, and I know it will serve me well. UNT is very inexpensive compared to others, and offers a lot of amenities for students. Denton is also pretty cool!

Went for a graduation ceremony and it took forever to find anyone directing traffic to ask for handicapped parking. Then found that they stuffed all the handicapped parking on the other side of a pile of construction and dirt mounds with no accessible way through.

When I first got to Denton and started classes at UNT for the first time, I wasn’t sure how to feel about it. Nothing grabbed my attention at first and I wasn’t convinced I was in the right place. After being here for nearly 4 years that attitude has changed completely. Denton has grown on me a lot and has impacted my view towards UNT as well. If you like Denton, you will probably like UNT and vice versa (at least in my own experience).
UNT has some truly talented professors and great programs that are nationally recognized. I’ve felt challenged here and have to say that it can be difficult at times, despite sometimes receiving a bad reputation. Anyone who tells you UNT is an easy school probably didn’t finish or didn’t have a difficult degree.
The one complaint I have about UNT is that it can be tough to get advising appointments. Also, you’ll likely have some problem with the registrar’s office at some point over credits, which is a pain too. They’re not the best at dealing with administrative problems. But, in a more positive light, the school is in a heavy growth period right now and is going to flourish even more in the future. Great things are coming for UNT and I can tell that it has transformed in the past decade alone.

I’m not exactly sure what people are looking for in a Unilocal college review but I’m an alumni and I worked at UNT so I can definitely give an honest review. I think it’s more helpful to make a pro’s and con’s list so here we go.
Pros: The people are nice, The squirrel’s are friendly, It’s cheap, The football games are inexpensive to watch, There is a Chick-​Fil-​A on Campus, The One-​O-​Clock Lab band, They serve Starbucks coffee in the Business Building, They serve Brookish coffee in the Library, It’s in Denton, The Art Department, The history department, That’s about it.
Cons: The classes are (generally) terrible, You can learn more in an afternoon of reading wikipedia than a semester of taking a class, The RTVF department, Parking is an absolute nightmare, They let the buildings fall apart and look trashy, Facilities are outdated, They don’t prepare you for «the real world», They don’t have enough spots in class for all their students, They don’t have enough dorms for all their students, They don’t have enough advisers for all their students, and They can’t find 21 million dollars…
I’ve met a lot of really good people at UNT and I had a good time in Denton, but the fact that I regret getting my degree from UNT makes me really sad. I thought if I persevered it would get better, it didn’t.
More on facilities: I was an RTVF student starting in 2010 and in the TV studio we literally used a TV monitor that said North Texas State University. That should tell you everything you need to know.

For an education it is good, but you can get an education almost everywhere. Classes are Full to the max, and with the way economy is that will be almost everywhere too. Unless you pay more to go to a private college classes will be full or they will cancel them. Sort of like American Airlines cancels flights at the last minute. It is all about the money.
And OMG parking! You have to be rich to afford to park here. For $ 135.00 you pay for a year of General parking. There are 3 lots to choose from (4 if you count Discovery Park, but then take a bus to campus) and on the biggest lot, around the old stadium, I drove around for 40 minutes until I was the lucky person on the right row, at the right time when someone was actually leaving. I felt like a stalker. I followed one guy to his car for him to just be putting his back pack away, he wasn’t leaving. I was following two girls just to learn they were walking through the lot and not going to a car at all. I don’t know which one of us was more upset. One of the two was nervous watching me back, she was mad, I saw it in her face. Frustrating.
So, include parking on your list of constraints when deciding if this is where you would like to get your next degree. I am glad I only have 1 more year!
UNT officials if you read this please Note: If you want to grow, you really should plan better for it. If all roads lead here. We need somewhere to park.
With that being said, Yes, I was even late to class. Sad.

This place has changed tremendously since 2006. Wow! I can’t believe how much bigger the campus has gotten!
Right now they are under construction of the new 24 hr union but I’m glad this campus had seen an increase in students. I love my professors here! They are caring bunch of people.
The advising team from what I remember was about average for any college advisement team.
I had a great experience here and hope others will too!

Go Eagles!

I love this university, but don’t get me wrong. I graduated fall of 2013 with my girlfriend who’s pursuing her master degree in Canada, she request a degree certification around Dec 15^th and left my name on for picking up. I called back to make sure if it is ready after the long holiday break, and the lady who picked up the phone from undergraduate advising talked like she had a bad night with her husband or something like that. She was trying to end the call by answering all questions with «no, I don’t know» without even trying anything, she clearly has no effort of what she s doing in that department. Oh, yea, during the call she tried to correct my pronunciation like you are from elementary school, that’s what pissed me off. I studied there for four years, and the lady that I talked to had always been like that, no matter it is a walking in or call in. I still couldn’t figure out how she even stays at that job for so long. Did I mention that her name is Julie Howell? Try ur best to stay away from her, especially for undergraduate students, simply you can not accomplish anything with her. Once again, I love Denton and UNT, it is where I spent four years of my life time. However, some of services department need to improve their service quality.

Based on Transcripts Only:
Ok UNT, your rating has fallen because you have problems on how to send official transcripts. Like a lot of your students you’re not the first Texas university I’ve attended. When I ask official transcripts (I asked for 3 copies), that means you put them in three different envelopes and make them look official. UTSA does this, even community colleges do this. So when I get my mail and see one thick envelope I’m thinking «Oh Ok, they put 3 envelopes in one!» So I open it and thus find out nope, it’s 3 copies of my official transcripts and I now have voided any official-​ness of them to take to an interview.
I would also like to comment that I don’t understand why I can’t ask for official transcripts through «MyUNT»? I can log onto other colleges (say UTSA) and ask for transcripts that way, why the difference? I live 5 hours from there so in person is out of the question, so I scrambled to find a fax machine.
Surely there is a better way given this is 2013.

A good school in a cool city. I got my undergrad in Marketing here in 2004 and landing a job right away thanks to my education and preparation from school. All my success started here and looking at an ROI it would be hard to find a better value.
Denton is also a hip place with Fry Street as the hub and plenty of unique shops and restaurants. The music scene is impressive and jazz fest is a major highlight. UNT’s One O’Clock Jazz Band is nationally recognized with a number of Grammies.
The new stadium and business building are also state of the art, UNT is going places for sure. Hopefully our football team improves at some point.

It’s so nice I went here twice!
I originally attended UNT from 2001 – 2005 graduating with a BA in History and went back again for my BS in Rehabilitation Studies with a specialization in Addictions and a minor in Psychology from 2009 – 2011. Each time I can say that I got quality education. I also love that there is vibrant student life, accessible professors, and real age diversity, so if you are coming back after 20 years out, you won’t feel alone. My only real issue is that the parking is atrocious! Also, give yourself plenty of time to make it to class. It is so crowded and the campus is so huge that it is easy to be late. I will warn people though that UNT is known for being a school easy to get accepted into, but if you think that you can breeze through the programs, you are madly mistaken. Get ready to work your butt off, but at the end, you absolutely will walk away with a sound education.

I graduated from UNT in August 2010 and I was very pleased with my experience there. I majored in sociology, which was eye-​opening and challenged me to grow a lot as a person. I feel like I was actually educated, rather than trained for a job. (Speaking of jobs, I was hired on to a full-​time position in marketing with a decent salary and fantastic benefits in January 2011, just a few months after graduation.) It was a pleasure learning from many of the professors in the sociology department, especially Prof. Ignatow. I highly recommend that anyone unsure of what they want to study take a look at the sociology department. You’ll learn about a diverse range of topics in school and will be very well-​rounded entering the job market after school.
And… of course this is more about the «college experience» and less about the university itself, but Denton is a pretty cool college town. I lived in a house off-​campus but spent much of my time on campus or around campus. I also enjoyed the nightlife at Fry Street or the Square. You could listen to live music and enjoy dirt cheap drinks almost any night of the week. Denton was definitely unique and I had a lot of fun and made some great memories there.
I am thankful to UNT for my education, my degree and the future that awaits me now that I’m a college graduate. UNT helped me achieve a lot and they can help you get there too!

I’ve seen a few reviews for UNT lately, so I thought I should add my review to the mix.
I graduated from UNT in August of 2008 (Bachelors in History, minor in Anthropology, damn close to a minor in French), transferring here from UT Austin in 2004. Yes, I transferred to UNT from UT. Sometimes, when people hear that, they think I might be truly insane or possibly retarded.
However, I’m glad I made the change. Yes, UT is an amazing school, but it wasn’t the place I needed to be at that time in my life for a variety of reasons. UNT was. It’s smaller than UT, cheaper than UT, and I did well here.
There are downsides to living in Denton, but these are not specifically related to UNT itself: Yes, housing can suck. I was a transfer student, so I don’t know about the policy requiring freshman to live on campus the first year. I lived on campus at UT, so whatever. If that really is a requirement and it really isn’t an option for you: go to a community college the first year and then transfer in. Housing in Denton can suck. Either there are student-​only apartments. expensive, pre-​furnished, required room-​mates (OR no room-​mates for 4x the money), ghetto one room apartments with the paint peeling near campus for too much money, slightly nicer places further away from campus… Jobs: yeah, it’s a college town, so employment can be hard to come by. Get a car, drive to Lewisville, Flower Mound, Highland Village, etc. to work. I did.
Cops: Yes, there are UNT and Denton cops everywhere. Don’t speed, don’t park where you’re not supposed to and you’ll be fine. I only got two tickets in Denton in the 4 years I went to school at UNT: one was a parking ticket that I deserved (and it only cost $ 35ish to fix), and one was an «Illegal right turn on red», which I don’t think I deserved, but wasn’t too expensive, either.
Classes: I thoroughly enjoyed every class I took with one notable exception (summer Sociology course where the instructor treated us like middle-​schoolers at best, was way behind in her own syllabus, etc). In every OTHER class I took, the professors/​instructors treated us with respect and that we were college students, not kindergartners. Always appreciated. Group projects in my classes were minimal, with the biggest one I can think of being in a UNT-​required speech class. All of the professors I had were great about their office hours, answering questions, and ensuring we had earned our grades and our education.
Staff: This (and advising) is the main reason why I’m not giving UNT 5-​stars. People who work in the cashiers office in the Student Services building were more useless than useful. Other people I had to deal with (registrars, etc) were moderately more useful than cashiers, but still not amazing.
Advising was a complete joke for me. I was a transfer student, so I had required advising the first semester I was there, but never again– so I don’t know why others were required to go to their advisers every semester. My History adviser was great (Dr Ken Johnson), but the Arts and Science advisers in the GAB were awful– and THEY were the ones responsible for my degree plan audit and THEY were the reason I graduated in August instead of in May. I graduated late because I was short one upper credit ELECTIVE. Despite me going to see them in the fall to make sure that everything was in order for spring. when I came to them with my application for graduation in February, I was told I wouldn’t be graduating in May. Because they missed something.
So all of the classes I took here were great (with the one exception), parking was decent (I shelled out for a Premium parking pass the last couple years and it was worth it), the train line now goes from Dallas to Denton, so grab your bike, take the train, and save cash. I learned a lot of cool stuff, I found something to study that I had never thought of before (by a total fluke), and I made friends here. A transfer student living off campus (and later in Lewisville) made friends here and had a decent time.
I’m seriously starting to miss being in school, and if I worked damn near-​full time and went to school full time before. Maybe I can do it again for a Master’s degree! If I do decide to do that, UNT will most definitely be a top choice for me. Especially since more and more classes are offered online now!