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2.5
Overall Quality
Reputation
2.6
Food
1.6
Clubs
2.2
Facilities
2.5
Internet
2
Location
3.2
Opportunities
2.5
Safety
2.2
Social
2.3
Happiness
2.7

Basic Information

Location

  • Paul Smiths, NY

Institution Overview

  • Public/Private: Private college
  • Established: 1946; 78 years ago (1946)
  • Founder: Phelps Smith, Apollos 'Paul' Smith

Academic information

Degree Courses

  • Around 30-40 degree courses

Key Area

  • Adirondack Watershed Institute
  • Forestry
  • Climate and Environmental Justice
  • Culinary Artisans and Adventure Hospitality
  • Natural Resources Conservation & Management

Student and Staff Numbers

  • Students: Around 598 students
  • Undergraduates: 593
  • Postgraduates: 12
  • Academic Staff: 70

Notable Alumni

  • Christian Cardiello
  • Eric Munley
  • John T. Dillon
  • Laura James
  • Jon L. Luther

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Students talk about this school

Good reviews
Overall 4.1
This school is the best fit for me. If the outdoors are your thing you can not go wrong with Paul Smiths. Endless outdoor activities hunting, fishing, hiking. Professors are awesome and personable, all professors are on a first name basis with students. Labs are awesome. Getting involved will make this place feel like one big family.
Bad reviews
Overall 1
Lead in the water and they lie to students about it!!!!! The buildings are old, moldy, and falling down. They only graduated 100 kids this year. I say go spend your money elsewhere. The education is low bar, teachers don't stay long and the ones that do are the worst.
Overall 1
Don't come here and if you're already enrolled, get out while you can. This college flat out lies to students, has horrible accomodations, has a bad track record with keeping students safe and it's in the middle of nowhere (not the cool romantic middle of nowhere, more like the I hear banjos playing and might die out here kind of middle of nowhere)
Overall 1
The place just needs to be shut down at this point. They have a huge debt, are threatening to fire their faculty and staff to save money, and do not care about their students as people. They only see students for the dollars that they can get from them. It's a sick school and I will be transferring out of my program by the end of the semester.
Overall 1
The college has been horrible lately - rapid changeover in presidential leadership; protests over a former administration’s handing of accusations of racism and sexual assault; decreasing enrollment; a several-hundred-thousand dollar deficit; a data leak that gave hackers student personal info and brown drinking water on campus! Go anywhere else!
Overall 1
I recommend going literally anywhere else. This place has no upstanding reputation in the workforce. Hardly anyone has even heard of it! The dorms are old and falling apart. The food is disgusting, even though they have cooking degrees there! Their wifi is always cutting out so learning anything online becomes impossible. Choose another college.
Overall 1
Wayyy too much money for the types of programs and classes that they offer. You don't want to pay their room and board because you'll live in some disgusting dorm and be eating the worst food you've ever had. The professors there are out of date and they can't seem to keep any of the good ones around for too long. Don't go here. It's not worth it.
Overall 1.1
This school has failed a lot. They've had so many layoffs of good professors and it always feels like they're struggling to keep the doors open. Enrollment has been declining for decades and they've hit an all time low recently. The only people who go there to learn and teach are people who don't know this place and who can't get hired elsewhere.
Overall 1.1
to expensive for the amount of fun you dont have. has the highschool vibe bigtime. spend 16 grand wiser go to a real college
Overall 1.2
I don’t recommend going here at all. Not a safe place for BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, or women/feminine presenting people. The school will always protect the predators. Food is awful and doesn’t cover a lot of dietary needs. Dorms are moldy and depressing. Not a diverse campus at all. The hire ups don’t care about you.
Overall 1.2
Total joke of a college. Moldy dorms. Crappy food. High reports of crime and assault on campus. Archaic faculty who don't believe in student's rights or new educational tools/curriculum. Huge amounts of institutional debt. Nonexistent wifi. No job availability. Bad admin. The only nice stuff is the land they stole from the indigenous people there.