Woodbury University
School info
3
Overall Quality
Reputation
3.3
Food
2.7
Clubs
2.3
Facilities
3.4
Internet
2.7
Location
3.8
Opportunities
3.2
Safety
3.1
Social
2.7
Happiness
3.2
Basic Information
Location
- Burbank, CA
Institution Overview
- Public/Private: Private university
- Established: July 7, 1884; 140 years ago (1884-07-07)
- Founder: Francis C. Woodbury
Academic information
Degree Courses
- Over 40
Key Area
- Architecture
- Media
- Culture & Design
- Interdisciplinary Studies
- Sustainability
- Practice-based Professional and Liberal Arts Education
Student and Staff Numbers
- Students: As of the most recent data, Woodbury University had a total enrollment of around 902-1,036 students
- Undergraduates: 937 (as of the 2022-2023 academic year), 827 (as of fall 2023)
- Postgraduates: 75-93
Notable Alumni
- Helen Gurley Brown
- William Travilla
- Germane Barnes
- Richard Denning
- Cleo Baldon
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Good reviews
Overall 4.5
Loved my 4 years there
Overall 4.3
Graet school
Overall 4.3
Excellent School if you want to avoid the government run State Schools.
Overall 4.1
Woodbury University gives you a quaint and homey feeling. Its a beautiful little campus that allows you to make the most of it and its location
Overall 4.1
The campus is awesome. However, I wish there were more clubs to join especially for graduate students. I also liked how professors have work experience and many of them do consulting jobs and can share their experience with students.
Bad reviews
Overall 1.1
There is absolutely no social life. This is a commuter school where everyone who lives in the dorms run home on the weekends and it is a ghost town. The cafeteria shuts down and you cannot even get food on a weekend. That's okay because there are plenty of coyotes running around campus in packs to scare you. The dorms are full of termites!
Overall 1.4
This school is a dissapointment. The professors are all second rate and the course are very limited. It is a commuter school with absolutely no prospect of developing contacts or friends.
Overall 1.5
Not Specified.
Overall 1.7
Attending this school, especially if you live on campus, is a waste of money for sure. There are a lot of decent professors, but campus life and faculty is horrible. Never had such a bad experience. Faculty is disrespectful, unhelpful, and couldn't care less about you. Campus living doesn't provide you with anything, and leaves you to rot...
Overall 1.8
This school is overall disappointing. You can work very hard for the school and go out of your way to help the school succeed and they will still screw you over. The faculty and administration doesnt care about you or your success. All they care about is keeping you as long as you can so they can make money off the students.
Overall 1.8
Horrible professors
Overall 1.9
Not worth the price. Teachers are mostly terrible except for a very small group. To park in the campus parking lot its another $150 each semester. Admin is slow and inefficient. Would not recommend.
Overall 1.9
It's a very small, private school. In other words, there's very little resources. The advantage to a small school like this is the small class size. State schools have more resources and bigger networks to make up for the mixed bag of teachers and large classes. I would choose a private school like this over the cal state system.
Overall 2
Woodbury has good teachers, and the academic part of it is not bad. However, living on campus is simply frustrating. There is little help when you need it, you are not taken seriously, and treated poorly. Woodbury has a lack in service minded employees, and with the extreme cost of tuition, I personally would not recommend this school to anyone.