Penn State Harrisburg

I've had Dr. Chang for other classes, and since then I had nothing but stress and my health declined because of the stress. Let me say if you are smar...

George Boudreau

I like that Boudreau clearly had a passion for history and loved teaching. He was meant to teach college History. I could have done with out the arrog...

Raymond Gibney

Extremely tough grader. Large group project/report with an average class grade of 78%. The midterm was awful, but the final was memorizing questions h...

Ram Parkash Goel

Goel will be Goel... you can not avoid taking him in engineering, he is over 70 so hard of hearing and not good at remembering what the class learned ...

Steven Carabello

He gives really nice lectures, which are very clear and well-organized. But participation is important because the icliker thing. In PSH, I highly rec...

Thomas Amlie

Professor is smart, too smart for his own good. His expectation of you is ridiculous. 80% of the grade comes from 2 tests, so if you are not a good te...

Jesse Middaugh

Well, he's an okay professor. It all depends on what type of student you are. I wouldn't recommend him but if you had to take his course you'll have t...

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It's a fine campus, but if you don't have a car, there's really not much to do on weekends or evenings. There is a fair selection of clubs but nothing outstanding, and the food is good but the main meals are always gone early in the evenings before closing. If you're looking to commute from home or you have a car, this is a fine choice.

Great campus if you are into smaller schools. Since it is a commuter campus every weekend the campus is basically quiet. Since it is a smaller school I think it was easier to make friends especially with the the students in your major. Food isn't great but its edible.

Great school. Primarily a commuter campus, which makes having a social life both on and off campus harder, but there is the option for on-campus housing. I have only ever had 2 truly bad professors here. Other than that, the faculty here is amazing and very passionate about their fields.

Great if you like a smaller campus. It's nice to see the same friendly faces daily. Living on or off campus is nice and there are things to do every day, if you find them. Contrary to popular opinion, food and housing situations are far better than UP.

Due to its nature as a commuter campus, the social scene is desolate for the most part. Since it's a branch campus it has little opportunities compared to University Park. It's tolerable for a 2+2 plan but very few people voluntarily spend all their college life here just because of how one-dimensional it feels. Feels like high school if commuting.

its getting bigger and bigger every year

Obviously, it has the Penn State name on it so no matter what it's reputation is pure. Location is not that bad even though I thought the Pennsylvania capital will be much more good looking. There are some great opportunities in this school but you have to work hard to get them. The wi-fi in this school is very easy to get a hold of.

the campus is great, not much to do right around campus a 10-15 minute drive is necessary to get to most fun things. Its a commuter campus. Most classmates will be commuters. Stacks offers decent food and outpost can be expensive and drain the meal plan. Buildings are all very nice and "new."

Freshman dorms is like a sleepover camp with your high school. Professors are nice and knowledgeable, as well as the learning center and library. Well maintained campus with a notable name, but a boring atmosphere.

I decided on this campus to start at for the 2+2 program, as it is within driving distance home and to my job. Despite being active in my high school with clubs, the type of clubs here that I would like to join are not here. If you are an outdoorsy person, this campus is not for you. There are barely any old trees, it is all fields and young trees.

I loved it here. Great campus.

Never any events going on. I understand it's a small school but even colleges smaller than us like HACC has more events going on. I'm honestly jealous of other schools. All we have are sports events, and sometimes no name speakers come to give a speech. It's either the sports, religious, or minorities events. Never anything to do...

This campus is overall ass. Don't go here for 4 years. Tolerable if doing 2+2.