Haskayne School of Business

I would NOT recommend attending this institution for your undergraduate degree. However, if you are someone who likes to spend 2 years completing non-business classes then be my guest. Haskayne does not advertise job opportunities to their students and graduates, and doesn't seem to have a connection with Calgary employers. Teaching methods are greatly outdated. Why are accounting students doing quizzes by hand? Get them on software so they can learn tangible skills.

The advisors here know nothing and the one I seen was very snarky and passive aggressive. Waste of my time.

Clean building, especially the new Mathison Hall gender neutral washrooms, plenty of spaces to study in groups or individually.

Fantastic professors, great environment, and boatloads of opportunity. I owe much of my professional success to the support of members of the Haskayne community.

Building is getting older and could use an upgrade compared to other buildings...

The new building - Matheson Hall - is very nice. Beautiful and inclusive design.

Why do they need such a nice building for people to learn how to colour inside the lines? 5/5

I've heard it's a good school but I've heard way better things from the Bisset School of Business at Mount Royal University.

My child attended summer bike camp here last summer. This was her 3rd camp at U of C. The other camps were good. Did not want to go down a steep hill but was told there was no choice. That morning, fell off bike and hit a tree, blood and cuts all over face and body parts. Finger/hand started to turn blue. Cuts all over her palms and they refused to give her more band-aids when the cheap band-aids fell off minutes later. No one called us. We picked up at the end and found our badly injured child. We went to the Children's Hospital for treatment. Stills talks about how horrible it was. Horrible! Horrible! Horrible! I show parents the photos and they gasp.

Avoid it at all costs. This is a perfect system for scamming you. if you are looking for a bright future, go somewhere else. They have built a perfect system of charging and overcharging you for every step you take.

This is a great place to enroll your kids in for summer camp . But the camps are limited

Nice University. All the buildings are connected in a C shape. So its great. Its like the +15 but in a school. There are not a lot of artwork to see here compared to the American Universities. But there are a few pretty interesting artwork such as the one outside the courtyard that is made of iron color metal with statues of men pushing and trying to lift it up. (look at my photos and you will know what I mean). There are some big lecture halls in the science building. The engineering building is pretty cool to look at at night. Some buildings are quite old looking and some can be pretty spooky. I mean there are change in scenery from tile building interior wall to concrete wall. You have to walk inside to understand what I am talking about. Parking is not free here. If you come late at night its $7 to park till end of day.

I'm attending a conference at the University of Calgary's McEwen Conference Center, and we had quite an unexpected surprise on Eclipse Day, with the Rothney Astrophysical Observatory hosting an eclipse-watching event in front of the School of Engineering right next door, complete with a pop-up observatory! Our conference organizers graciously rearranged the conference schedule so we could be part of this special event. There was easily about a thousand people from all over participating in the event, with Rothney providing eclipse glasses for viewing the event while waiting in line to look through their high-powered telescopes, providing a simply amazing close-up view of the moon passng in front of the sun a quarter of a million miles away, the sun looking like a cresent moon at 11 in the morning. While Calgary didn't experience totality, having a little over 80% obscuration, just being able to observe this celestial event 'up-close' and chat with budding astrophysicists while it was happening made for an unforgettable experience. Eclipses are truly one of those natural events that are best experienced as a group, so a very special 'thank you' goes out to everyone at the Observatory for making Eclipse Day a very special day indeed. Huzzah!

Unbelievable that the university allows professors to hire their students to baby sit, house sit, cat sit. This was my experience during my Master in Communication Studies, where our professor who taught all core courses HIRED A STUDENT TO BABY SIT FOR HIM. He awarded a scholarship to her - to which I also applied, and she probably got the good grades. When we graduated, he told me that whenever he saw my name in an exam or paper, HE AUTOMATICALLY LOWERED MY GRADE, as he knew I didn't like him During my PhD I learned from a student, that my main supervisor did not help his students. Unfortunately it turned out to be true. During a meeting in his office, my main supervisor told me: "WE PROFESSORS ARE NOT INTERESTED IN HELPING OUR STUDENTS, but in learning from them." So true, as when I first interviewed him, he had no idea about the INNOVATIONS HAPPENING IN ISRAEL. Furthermore, HE NEVER READ MY CANDIDACY EXAM - as I discovered towards the end of writing my doctoral dissertation. And he may have SKIPPED some main and IMPORTANT SECTIONS OF MY DISSERTATION. Or maybe he just ignored them and the fact that I needed 3 or 4 more sources of information if I wanted to publish any articles. What a DISAPPOINTMENT! GRAD STUDIES had an internship program COPIED from American Universities. UNFORTUNATELY, when they face a problem they don't know how to fix it, as they cannot think outside of the box. I was invited to work with the Alberta Government WHO WERE INTERESTED IN MY RESEARCH. Grad Studies not DID NOT COOPERATE, BUT Tara Christie sent to me an email indicating that they were going to use my contact to HELP OTHER STUDENTS but NOT ME. DISAPPOINTMENT after DISAPPOINTMENT. I was desperate to get work and I asked one of my supervisors for help. He yelled back at me to go apply for a POSTDOC degree. I then talked to Dr. David Lertzman (may he rest in peace) who suggested several professors with scholarships. I connected with one of the profs at Haskaune and started learning his material During our last meeting he told me he had talked to one of my supervisors (at Haskayne?) who had not been supportive of me and he was ending our working relationship. ANOTHER DISAPPOINTMENT. Better go study in an IVY League university in the United States. They will care for you and treat you with more enthusiasm and you will get a position immediately with the university or an American company once you finish your degree. Calgary is always in economic crises. Actually, my main supervisor told me when I started the PhD, that if I studied in the US I would have a line-up of companies wanting to sponsor me - but of course not here in Calgary. I also applied to another position to learn a new software program and teach it, but the instructor decided to let me go after the training started. The reason - we had a discussion on the Holocaust during WWII, that she started and didn't like my response- she was from Denmark. So I was laid off. I WOULD NEVER recommend the University of Calgary after those disappointing experiences. I am SURE that my academic and work experiences with a university in the US would have been much more positive.

Like all universities, the University of Calgary has problems alongside good points. Tuition is of course higher than what the courses are worth, and the education quality is questionable. The professors think they're smarter than you and don't hesitate to let you know. I found the grading, or marking, to be extremely harsh, and I don't think the grades you get match the effort you put into your work. That being said, there are great professors here alongside the bad ones, and the Dining Centre has a great food selection. A mixed bag, like all universities.

The University of Calgary has an awesome campus - lots of trees, green space, and even a little pond. It's spacious and close to lots of places - Market Mall, Northland Mall, Northhill Mall, Foorhills Hospital...and the c-train stops right there. Parking can get limited if there's an event going on, so go early to get a parking spot. Be prepared to pay in the range of $3/hour for parking if you don't have a parking pass. (It's easiest to pay by credit card.)

I was recently working a project where I had to visit all three major campuses in Calgary back to back. I'm talkin Mount Royal College, U Of C and SAIT. It took me an entire afternoon, but I went from one to the other exploring every inch of each campus. My conclusion: The University Of Calgary is BY FAR the most amazing campus in Calgary. Compared to MRC and SAIT, it's leaps and bounds better. The campus space is bigger, prettier and better laid out. The University of Calgary has a state of the art gym facility (most Olympians train here when they're in town) and Mac Hall has recently been renovated and has an incredibly impressive food court. The business school program at U of C is known around the world and you can partake in some of the coolest extra-curricular opportunities here (Ie. The Dalai Lama just visited the campus this week to hold a conference with U of C students). Now let's talk about education value. Let's just say I had a couple of the best teachers I have EVER had here at the U of C. I got my undergrad degree here, and thanks to it, I've been able to move around from Calgary, to Toronto, to Chicago and then some. I would recommend the U of C to anyone who is looking to further themselves professionally, personally, socially and mentally. The University Of Calgary is where it's at. Take my word for it.

If I could give a negative rating, I would. Yet I am going to school here again. It's complicated. Really complicated. I first went to U of C for Environmental Management. I don't have time to get into all the BS I had to endure in that program. Leave it, the Dean and I were on a first name basis, and it wasn't due to me being a bad student. The profs are...beyond words! (not in a good way) Finally finished that program and only because my husband made me finish my last class. I refused to go to graduation, just give me the damn paper. I decide I want to enhance my career through Continuing Education (which isn't Environmental, I never did anything with it), and sadly the best course selection (so I thought) was U of C. I registered for one class, as I don't want to take on too much, while still working full time. I always go early on Day 1, to try and find the class room and get settled. What they tell me is the classroom and campus was wrong, I'm stuck in a gross computer lab in the bowels of the EDC campus. I'm paying how much for this course?...The prof is so dry it's almost unbearable. Le sigh. I will finish as I want to do it, but it's truly painful. I won't say I'll never go to U of C again, as I keep going back, but it's the only option I have. :( Oh and I've called numerous times to try and talk to someone, as a bunch of classes I want to take have a prerequisite, but they don't offer the beginner class...WTF how am I going to take other courses then, and no one has ever returned my calls.

In the summer, the University of Calgary comes alive, all greens and trees and landscaping. In the winter it is an icy hell-hole. And it is always deserted on the weekends and evenings, except for Thursdays. Haha, the U of C is my alma mater, so I spent a lot of time exploring it. The buildings are mostly 70s style - not quite an ancient house of learning, but charming in its own way nonetheless. There are several weird statues that we can only sort of appreciate, like the prairie chicken and the fire pit but even they add to the character of the campus. It's outside of downtown, but there is a train station and several buses that visit. There is also tons of parking. The information commons in the library stays open 24/7 during exams, and is open late otherwise. It is probably the single busiest area on campus. It is attached to most areas via a series of underground tunnels and +15s, so that lazy students don't have to brave the freezing weather. That means that it can take a good twenty minutes to walk from the library to Mac Hall, even though they are very close together. The campus has its ups and downs. I wasn't always a huge fan of the layout and seating and smells in my time there, but they do their best to keep it up to date.

This review is based on continuing education courses I have been taking over the past year. Like any class there are hits and misses, but I would say that in my experience the hits outweigh the misses. Some classes have been stellar, to the point where I won't forget them. They bring in quality instructors, most of which seem to be around 40-ish. This is perfect because I feel I can relate to the instructors and they are most certainly qualified to teach the course. I know it can be pricey, with the tuition, books and parking. However, remember that if you enroll in a certificate program you can likely claim the cost for courses and books on your taxes as a rebate. It really helps justify the cost. If you take night courses don't forget to park in the $5 parking lots versus the $25 parking lots.

5 stars for the curriculum (yay for art students!), minus one star for Art Wolf. Love, Jepo.

I am a 3rd year Political Science student. In my first year I lived in the residence. From my experience I've come to adorn the U of C as a great place to study! That being said, for the amount of money we pay as students, I expect nicer facilities. Much of the construction on campus is costly and time inefficient. More places to study please!! It can get very crowded. The U of C produces high class students who have in depth knowledge about their studies. Professors are are often strict, but fair. I recommend this institution to anyone interested in pursuing post-graduate studies. Especially in Engineering and Bio-Sciences.

Having just graduated from the University of Calgary with a BA in English and a perpetually changing minor, I suppose that I am now in a position to review it. I loved my time spent at the University of Calgary, but I believe it has to do mostly with the department I studied in, and constantly being surrounded by creative types. Being in the arts, I often felt like a floaty hippie in the midst of soooserious business majors and engineering types, but the sense of "home" in my English lectures and the attitude of my professors always brought me back to earth when I wondered what the hell I was doing shifting around to a Victorian Literature course in moccassins when everyone was checking the stocks in suits at Scurfield Hall. Actually, looking back on it, my experience at the U of C has really just represented a microcosm of my whole entire life. I believe there needs to be more of a focus on certain departments and less spending on others at the U of C, but I will not name any names. I also believe that providing more healthy environments and study spaces should take priority over adding mediocre food court options to their students. I am not a fan of the Harvey Digital Library and miss spending entire winter days hiding out in MacKimmie Hall Library, reading alllll of the first pressings of Kerouac novels instead of studying. In fact, I hate the HDL. It looks like the Facebook headquarters on the movie the Social Network, and I think really represents the U of C's desire to catch up too quickly in some aspects (they actually really rushed and screwed up with the architecture the first time around which is why this library took so long to officially open), but remains dated in others. My favourite place to study is in the atrium, even though the sitting nooks are deathly uncomfortable. It is in the Admin building, if I recall correctly, and is full of greenery and statues. I also like how campus looks like Narnia in the winter, and is nice and pretty and green and quiet for spring and summer classes. The person who said the U of C has one tree is lying to you. Don't worry. (10/30)

This university I think has only one tree. It is a very industrial place, and it was a very cold place to find myself in. The university personal were very short with me and disrespectful. Considering I was a visiting student, I really thought it would have been a much better experience.

I'm a student at the UofC, and honestly, it's pretty good all around. The campus is clean and well thought out, and staff and faculty are really talented at what they do. Furthermore, ucalgary library has a large collection and resources to find books not in its own collection. This is particularly advantageous for the avid researcher or graduate student. Overall I appreciate ucalgary and am happy to be a UofC student.

One can only be subjective when assessing the quality of an institution of higher learning, especially at the post-graduate level. I will not take the pitfall and use the word especially true because that would immediately make my response objective. Enough with the semantics and accompanying BS (not to be confused with a Bachelor of Science Degree from the USA). An education is only as valuable as the effort the student is willing to put into. The higher the level the more this appears to be true. While completing the Graduate Project Management Program, I had plenty of opportunities to test this observation. Although this data is merely empirical, negating any chance to be objective, I concluded the more I dedication I gave to the quest for furthering my own knowledge and advancing the discipline through research, the greater the satisfaction I achieved in my studies. To this extent, I can state wihout qualification that the University of Calgary provided me a most excellent forum in which I fulfilled my goals. I came away with exactly what I wanted. However, I can only give four stars. It is not because of the quality of the learning environment, but the constraints put on the access to the learning environment at the graduate level. The graduate departments in many faculties are averse to allowing students from other departments to take courses for credit. The Faculty of Law was one of the worst. A change of deans alleviated that and I was allowed to take advanced environmental law, the professor was the second most recent dean. The Haskayne School of Business, even though a sponsor of the Project Management Program, would not allow PM students to expande their knowledge horizontally, especially at the 700 level of courses. If the course was PM oriented they had to let you register, if it was not then you either had to fight or forgo the class. Advanced accounting and finance courses were totally blocked yet many very senior project managers have responsibility for billion dollar budgets. The Faculty of Environmental Design was the most liberal in allowing students in graduate programs in other departments to take their 600 and 700 level courses. All may take up to four courses without requiring special permission of the dean. I gorged myself on policy analysis, development, and environmental impact classes. They provided the most satisfaction during my two year sojourn at UofC. Professors of note, in all departments, were Al Lucas (Law), George Jergeas (Project Management), Sascha Tsenkova and Bill Ross (Environmental Design), and Terry Rock (Strategic Management). I took a total of 11 graduate courses and none were inferior. I was given the opportunity to work on numerous faculty projects including editing books for George Jergeas, PM department head, and for Michael Mack, a visiting scholar in the Institute for Humanities. Funding was easily available and for this I had to proof read dissertations for fellow students. I cannot speak for other programs but I highly recommend the University's Graduate Project Management Program. You get to choose your own research projects rather than being a slave for your supervisor. These were two of the best years of my life.

The University of Calgary campus: 1) Its new digital library does not offer a good ratio or number of computers for the number of students attending at UofC. It is hard to find computers at the campus at almost anytime of the day. They have now added about 50 new digital cameras at the library instead of adding more computers. 2) Does not offer numerous quiet study areas. Again for the number of students attending it is extremely hard to find a quiet place to study during midterms and finals. 3) The gym facilities are nice, that's when you can actually get some equipment to work out at the gym. Impossible to get machines between 11am-6pm. 4) Classrooms, washrooms, lab rooms are outdated and depressing. Looking at the numerous comments that the University is somewhat modern only accounts for its new digital library, ICT and MacHall. Otherwise the rest of the place is always filthy, lacks windows and sets a very depressing environment for the student. 5) Some faculties lack funding and therefore suffer in what courses they offer. It seems as though all the funding goes towards Engineering. Overall the University of Calgary lacks the tools to make the student have a better experience throughout their educational careers at the University. The lack of space for studies, as well as the lack of computers available makes the student struggle to complete his/her tasks in a timely fashion as well makes them struggle to strive in their studies.

i really liked the university clubs (the Guitar club, the Polish club) and the extra office hours for all of the lectures. I think that this university is better for Engineers (my brother is an engineer and he loved it) and math majors than for Arts (English, Art of Philosophy). But it is a great school with a lot of good courses, nice gym and nice atmosphere.

two words: harvey weingarten. actually, another two words: modernist architecture. ok, fifteen final words: this place is tolerable in the summer, but we all know how long summer is...

Great if you are in engineering, but forget having a well funded program if you are anywhere else. Undergrad professors are often ridiculously ill equipped to be teaching.

I'll agree with the other reviews that the U of C has a pretty campus but if you are looking for a university that puts the students and learning first you would be better off at many other institutions. Not only is the library siutation at the University of Calgary completely mind boggling bad, they keep increasing enrolment without adding to student space or hiring professors. I recently walked through Mac Hall and not only was the noise level awful, but there were students eating lunch and studying on cement floors because there was nowhere else to sit. I have watched the student population of the university grow exponentially in the past few years, and also have seen the quality of student services decreasing because they were not designed for and cannot accommodate such a large student population. The class sizes are ridiculous and you can have more than a hundred people in an English class. English classes are meant to be about discussion and they used to be capped at fifty students which were already too large. For people who are new to the University this overcrowding and unconcern for students may seem normal, but for someone who has watched the standards of the university fall drastically in the last few years this is completely unacceptable. If you want overcrowded classrooms, a noisy environment that is not at all condusive to studying, and a university that prizes reasearch over the well-being of its students, then the U of C is the perfect place for you.

We run courses at the University of Calgary and I cannot begin to tell how disappointing the food is for Vegans. I am Vegan, then we have 1 Vegetarian and 1 gluten-dairy free. On their menu, apparently Vegans only eat fruit and salads. For breakfast everyone gets a full grilled hot breakfast. I get a couple squares of oat bars that are nut and gluten free and are a bit like soggy cardboard with some almost sweet jam. For lunch for example, everyone gets Greek pitas with skewered chicken, salad with feta, baklava and brownies. I get 2 veg skewers, salad and fruit for dessert. This is even after putting in the order myself for catering and giving them options for my meals that are easy and all-eater friendly ie. Pita bread that does not contain dairy or egg can be eaten by everyone and doesn't mean I have to starve! I bring my own breakfast and now I have to go, at my own expense, and buy (ironically) a pita wrap from the cafe, so I don't faint from lack of food!

University of Calgary is the best! I love everything about it: professors are very open-minded and knowledgable and the campus is beautiful. I feel absolutely free and accepted for who I am here.

I'm having a problem with the UofC right now. I accidently added a course to my schedule when browsing courses (I was not planning on attending and did not take any courses). I withdrew from the course 35 seconds later and I now have collection agencies calling saying I owe nearly $800 to the university. The woman I've spoken to twice at student services Tiffany has been downright rude, not providing information on appeals to me because she 'said so'. Just a warning for people that the university is a business at the end of the day and unwilling to help people out for honest mistakes.