Trent University

Very scenic campus, however it is about the only good thing about the school. No activities on campus at all like other universities have, food is super overpriced and they keep making portions smaller. In terms of amenities, Trent University has less than even small colleges.

Beautiful campus, very green, well-designed and accessible. It was a pleasure to visit. The energy is just perfect. We loved spacious lawns, Student Center, the residences are also nice.

The Academic Registration and help is horrific. I had an Academic Advisor switch positions, and not email me back for two months when I was trying to ensure I had all my required courses as I was starting my third year. The Academic Callander is not up to date, so I have to reach out to the head of departments to ensure some courses fall under the proper categories in ERSC. Old knowledge is being taught, nothing innovative in regards to agriculture, just lots of theory with a lack of care to hear new upcoming ideas, as they only want white papered supported literature. There are some good people throughout the mess, and you should only go here if it has the program you need, do not go for any other reason, as it's a let down.

Beautiful Campus, amazing professors, and great people. However their housing department sucks. They will bill you for the most idiotic/random things. I received a $450 charge for “lost keys” even though, I never received one. I also got a charge for “lost bins” even though I stacked them, and put them where I got them. They can charge you however much they’d like and you’d still have to pay because you ‘signed the bullshit contract’. Only thing you can do it get bullied in small claims court.

My daughter went to Trent. And while overall the experience, most professors and the facilities were great - there were some serious pitfalls. She took a double major in forensic psychology bachelor's of arts vs science. They ran out of room for her to get her degree in fourth year- because they didn't offer enough classes and spots for those enrolled? So they had to give her history and criminology credits and count them towards forensic and psychology. They apparently know that they don't have enough classes. But still allow more students than they can accomodate. She also tried to take ballistics for four years - Which they post and just put students on waitlists - but never actually had a professor to teach it. So each year she was hopeful and then disappointed. Also she went to Trent vs other universities because of the international exchange program. But the year she was eligible to do it - they didn't have the staff member who ran the program and didn't fill the position temporarily. Yet had students from abroad still doing exchange here, but she was not able to do her exchange. She is grateful for her experience and proud to be an alumni, but little administrative things which frankly should be easy to tweek and look after, really let her down. Carefully check into the reasons why you chose to enroll in their programs and ensure they are actually running the aspects before you decide to go here.

Absolutely beautiful university. As a student of the Durham campus, I am incredibly jealous of the lucky people who get to attend here for their classes.

Very beautiful area. Love it. Fishing spot is there.

Trent gives me more than thirteen reasons why. They are committed to price gouging students at every step of the way, from $400-600 parking passes, mandatory $5000 dining plans (which still isn't even enough to feed you 3 meals a day), and the current introduction of predatory textbook policies that require you to do assignments THROUGH the textbook publishers website after a fee to ensure you can't share or save money. Additionally, my residence took place in the Traill college annex, which is a deeply unfortunate place to make students pay a premium price to live at. The rooms are unventilated hotboxes that even open windows can't fix, my window had spider eggs in it, the showers don't have doors or security, you have to pay for a second $400 parking pass, there is no kitchen or way to prepare your own food (reminder that the dining plan doesn't supply you for the entire semesters), the exterior is shared with a private elementary school, and the parking lot often freezes over in the winter because the private owners of the annex don't salt it in time. Not to mention there is no recycling whatsoever, meaning a tremendous amount of waste is made here. There are positives, such as a good student culture and very pretty campus, but i can't stress enough how predatory Trent is as soon as it's too late to turn back.