Surrounding City at Old Dominion University (StudentsReview ™)

Breakdown of “Surrounding City” at ODU

By Gender

Males	B-
Females	B

By Major

Accounting	C-
Aerospace Engineering	B
Art & Design Department	B-
Biology	B
Business - Management and Administration	C
Chemistry	B-
Civil Engineering	C+
Communications	C
Computer Engineering	B
Computer Science	C
Criminal	B+
Economics	A-
Education	A-
Electrical Engineering	B
Engineering Department	B+
English	B
Finance	A-
Fine Arts - Painting/Sculpture/Photography/etc	B+
Geography and Geosciences	A-
History/Histories (art history/etc.)	B
Kinesiology	C+
Math	A
Mechanical Engineering	B
Music - Performance	A+
Nursing	B+
Other	C+
Physical Therapy/Exercise Science	A+
Physics	B
Political Science	C-
Psychology	B
Public Health	A+
Social Work	A+
Sociology	B
Undecided	B

Against similar schools

Surrounding City compared with similar schools in class.

Old Dominion University
B-
Average of All Schools
B-
Average of schools in class
B-
Virginia Commonwealth University
B-
James Madison University
C+
George Mason University
B
University of Virginia
B+
Radford University
C-
Harvard University
B+
Longwood University
D+
F
A+

Surrounding City

“... Norfolk is a military installation, a port, and a cesspool of a city that also happens to have a university (ODU) that is designed more around co...Read full comment

“... For the most part its a pretty quiet city if you live near the university ...Read full comment

“... The campus is poorly lit at night, not sure if the school is trying to save money on electricity instead of providing a safe environment for the ...Read full comment

“... We are in a city but it is a very small city ...Read full comment

“... Downtown Norfolk is an up and coming city its great ...Read full comment

“... ODU is 5-10 minutes away from the largest military base in the world, and the city of Norfolk in which ODU is housed has the highest concentrati...Read full comment

“... But as with any city, it also has some crime problems, Ive been approached twice by drug dealers in cars ...Read full comment

“... Norfolk is a very haphazard city; you'll have ghetto here, really nice apt complex there ...Read full comment

“... [sarcasm]) The surrounding city is a dump, with a pretty high crime rate ...Read full comment

“... Besides that, you get a great college experience with a city school feel similar to U pitt or NYU ...Read full comment

“... Not to mention the city of Norfolk(in which ODU is located) is far from the safest(as the ODU higher-ups flat out lie about), it is like a "Compt...Read full comment

“... While they're friendly to other students, they don't actually befriend students outside of this ethnicity or origin country ...Read full comment

“... Spectacular Food Great Teachers Renovated Campus Clean Hallways City view Easy adaptable studying methods Best Counselours Real Advise En...Read full comment

“... There are the drug dealers, which comes from living in a city like Norfolk, but they're nice people and will leave you alone if you don't want th...Read full comment

“... Norfolk is a military installation, a port, and a cesspool of a city that also happens to have a university (ODU) that is designed more around co...Read full comment

“... Norfolk is a CITY you need to be prepared to live in a city and deal with the things that come with that ...Read full comment

“... -From 3:30 PM to 7:30 PM, the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel (Interstate 64 westbound near the Norfolk/Hampton city line) experiences traffic bac...Read full comment

“... The student body are primaraly self obsorbed igrnorant biggots from the surrounding arieas and all the culteral divercity is mostly devided into ...Read full comment