Academics
Baldwin Wallace University in Ohio provides a top-notch liberal arts education with a rich and active campus life. Students speak highly specifically of the business, neuroscience, education, and English programs, but add that the teaching quality “overall across disciplines [is] amazing.” Professors are focused on “seeing students succeed.” They’re tough, but not unfairly so: “they do not handhold,” but they do make themselves “easy to meet with outside of class,” and “they aren’t there to watch you fail.” Professors also remain “dedicated to their craft,” utilizing hands-on learning for many of their courses. (Two examples are market research projects through the school’s Center for Innovation and Growth and performing in many different music ensembles—the school has an “exceptional music program.”) Matching that on-campus variety are plentiful off-campus opportunities, as BW has “great placement [in] Cleveland and other surrounding areas for job and internships.” As one pleased student sums it up, saying, “I believe that, thanks to my education at Baldwin Wallace, I am ready to join the workforce.”
Student Body
At BW, those who are “passionate and driven in their fields” come together to form an “incredibly inclusive, caring, and compassionate” community. Students are “overwhelmingly talented and—before anything else—supportive.” There’s a broad consensus that almost everyone “intermingles and is involved in numerous activities,” forming “one connected student body.” BW attracts many “commuters ranging from eighteen to forty years old,” but some admit that “racial diversity could be better.” Still, that student body represents “a wide array of personalities … and interests,” with some of the most common including athletics, Greek life, or music and dance. Regardless of where a student’s interests fall, though, “people seem to be authentic and don't try to hide who they really are.”
Campus Life
Students at BW “take their academics seriously but enjoy having fun whenever there is time.” And the list of ways they can spend that time is long: with over 100 clubs and organizations at the school, “It seems like the possibilities are endless.” Among those options, the “three big things to be involved in” are Greek life, athletics, and the music conservatory, which offers almost “constant performances.” BW is a commuter school, so outside of official campus-wide activities, the residential party scene is “typically pretty tame … with only a couple [of] house parties every weekend.” However, because BW is nestled into a suburb of Cleveland, students aren’t restricted to what the campus has to offer. For instance, “there is lots of great food within walking distance,” or to put it another way, the school has “a small-town feel … with big city benefits.”
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