Toured Merrimack in 2025. I absolutely loved this college! Clean and updated facilities. Division 1 sports, bowling alley and bar on campus. Everyone is super friendly, easy to get around the campus. They have tons of student friendly events throughout the year and a great program of studies. read more

awfully run data science program; if you're considering, I'd recommend staying away. Faculty will happily fail you last minute, advising and administration are super lazy and don't care at all. They will get Defensive and side with biased grading practices, legit I can't stress enough, look elsewhere unless you want to be retaking classes and wasting money, which is something they want since the chair legit mentioned it's about ROI lol read more

We have always felt welcomed here, from pre to post acceptance. We moved my son in, or I should say the amazing volunteers moved all his stuff up 3 flights of stairs and were incredibly welcoming and helpful. Looking forward to a him having a great year ahead! read more

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I can't say enough about Merrimack College. Wonderful professors, campus and D1 sports.

Not the greatest school. Its an okay school but in reality they don't want to help the minority

Pretty crazy how room and board is $60,000+ and they can't seem to install WiFi that is actually beneficial. That 10 min YouTube video that you have for class that can be easily done in an hour is now 2 in a half hours cause you have to wait for the video to load. If you download a file that's more than 10 GB you are out of luck cause it will take 14 hours just to download your file. But don't worry, the upload speed is really good. You can't download the content you need to get by but that's alright cause you can just upload your material at the last second before turning it in. The potholes are bad, there's no room for parking, and yet they host some sort of event every weekend and make it even more impossible to get stuff done. There's no A/C here, which is understandable because of Mass. being cold, but your first two in a half months will suck if you're in a room with 5 other people. Cooling it off with fans isn't enough. The last school I was at charged us half of what this tuition is and they maintained the roads, gave us a heat and A/C, gave us good WiFi, and they had more students attend. read more

I was a Freshman here for about a semester and I kept waiting for my experience to get better but it never did. It felt like literal purgatory and misery; the subjects I studied didn't interest me. I had surface level friends but they were all too busy with their friends to have time to hangout, and my roommate was a complete robot. Never have I thought I had wasted money, time, and stress more at a place such as this. There is no sense of community just a sense of isolation and despair. If you are considering this college go to one that has more parties or has students who're more sociable because this place was run down and depressing. I seriously considered killing myself when I was there I was so alone and miserable. Merrimack was hell for me; do not come here; Massachusetts has plenty of other enjoyable schools unlike this one. read more

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Was doing the Masters in IT, terrible mistake. Everything was taught on YouTube, professors are rude and don't help. Finally decided to go to another school, Financial aide department wouldn't stop my fafsa payments. Had to wait a whole semester just to attend a different school! read more

Horrible, horrible experience. I initially saw an ad on Instagram for Merrimack's online Master's in computer science with a software engineering concentration and was so excited -- there was no experience or background required and it seemed to be a pretty quick program. I applied and was soon called very frequently by the application specialist -- communication abounded before becoming a student. First off, if you are from the underprivileged population that unfortunately relies heavily on financial aid in order to get through school and focus adequately on your course materials, I highly urge you to look elsewhere. While I was on the phone with the application specialist, there seemed to be hesitancy in his responses when I inquired about financial aid, but despite the hesitancy in his voice he assured me it should all be fine. It was not. First, the credit hours for much of the courses do not fit the requirements to receive financial aid, so some shuffling around needs to be done. It's not a smooth ride like, in my experience, it has been in other programs. Furthermore, they tend to refuse to disburse as much as other programs in my experience. Which is a little odd to me, especially since they've had lawsuits surrounding financial aid in the past. Generally, the financial aid process is a difficult nightmare. I've never experienced anything like it in any other school I've graduated from. The wait period to get any disbursement is a whole lot longer than any school I've been in as well. By the time you get anything, the term is close to done. I recently withdrew from the school due to lack of communication and responsiveness and well as financial aid issues, and the term was a couple weeks from done and there was still a balance that should have been sent to me a long time ago. This had never been an issue in other programs I had been in. If you need that to dedicate your time to your coursework, what good is it going to be coming to you toward the end or after the end of the term? It's needed during the term. The program is super expensive for an online program where the student is not using in-person resources (one eight-week online class was almost $4,000 (~$500 a week, 1 hour lectures)). Especially considering the materials, which are all readily available online. Articles pulled from the internet. The "bootcamp" aspect is pulled from Udemy, I believe, which one can teach themselves to code from there at a much lower rate than tuition, build a portfolio, and move into the field on their own without paying tens of thousands of dollars for a piece of paper to prove they did it. I think the biggest red flag to me may have been the lack of communication and responsiveness. I have never seen a more uncommunicative, unresponsive school in my life. I don't even know if I've witnessed such an uncommunicative, unresponsive business all together in my life. It was startling. After I was a student and they got that payment, all communication and response pretty much ceased. Different schools have different systems and processes, so there were things I was not made aware of. So when I had questions on how to navigate or what their processes were, they just didn't respond. I also didn't know I had to fill out a refund request form, as I never had to anywhere else, had made it very clear that I need a disbursement so I can focus more on school (otherwise I need to solely focus on keeping up with bills and rent), and was never told of their process. I had to guess around and eventually had to ask if there was anything I needed to do. When I wrote to ask any questions as a new incoming student, it felt like talking to myself -- I almost never got a response. Whenever I did get a response, it was usually because I needed to follow up and ask for a response. Sometimes even then, I didn't receive one. Any time I may have gotten a response, it was with an air of not wanting to be bothered. And twice, by two different people, the responses made it abundantly clear to me my email was simply skimmed over and they read a couple words out of them and only assumed they had the appropriate response, but their responses didn't make sense in regard to the original email. I even responded to one, telling him what he said I sad was, in fact, not what I said at all. A "success coach" told me he reached out to some people for me when I pointed out how bad the communication is and how I never get responses to my inquiries, and I still never got a response. Totally careless. I regret my time with this place. There's also a review site that has reviews under different names but follow the exact same script, which alludes to the probability that they're reviewing themselves on review sites. read more

The is not only the worst place to go eat on campus but it is the worst place to eat in Massachusetts. Never had worse service in my life. When i ask for my wrap to be toasted i expect to see a couple of toast marks on it and melted cheese. Also i would recommend teaching them how to cut subs. Thanks, Craig read more

I have worked at Merrimack College since 2015. I have loved working at MC because of the faculty, staff and (especially) the students. Nevertheless, I will not be returning in the Fall because the administration at MC does not respect or value its employees. In fact, the MC administration decided that the COVID-19 crisis was an opportunity to slash departments and professors without even notifying us. So, instead of praising and, even, rewarding faculty and staff who worked really hard during the transition to remote learning during this crisis, I instead found out that the courses that I was supposed to teach in the Fall were cut and that I was out of a job. WOW. So, while the rest of the country is banding together through this crisis, Merrimack College is thinking only of itself. I think that says it all! read more

I am concerned at why the YELP on Merrimack College is closed. Being a 87 graduate, I have always been Merrimack's biggest advocate. The education I got there was excellent However, things have changed. The school has lost it's local charm .. The sad part about Merrimack was it's run with a president who no longer works there-- left to grander horizons. As a result, it is overbuilt, the teachers, which used to all be pretty outstanding, are a mix of both excellent and...well...not so excellent. Check out the other blogs about Merrimack by students who attend there. I hope they can return to their roots making it a first class school in all round education again read more

Best college ever! Class of '00 representing :) read more

Currently going here and love the classes, professors, students, and all of the opportunities and experiences on campuses. Very homey community, and really welcoming. read more

I was class of 2005. I attended the college from 2001-2005 and each year it got better and better. Since I graduated, I only hear of all the great improvements being made, re-constructions, constructions, programs, et. My experience at the college was very positive. Coming from Central Catholic High School in Lawrence, I was a "C" student there, and I was afraid that going to a catholic college or any 4 years college would be hard for me...it wasn't. My grades in college, both at Northern Essex before I transferred after the 2000-2001 school year, and at Merrimack were much better overall than I received at Central Catholic. One thing that's good is teachers are nice, they let students visit them in their offices to stop by and chat, they give one on one feedback and advice on study skills and essays, et. At Central Catholic, I never received that, except in Math (which I never had the time to go to). My advisor, Professor Scherwatzky, was very helpful and his classes were definitely a challenge for me. I learned how to develop better essays with thesis statements and evidence from texts to back it up by meeting with Scherwatzky for the first few essays we had been given. By this time, I was pretty much almost "finished" with my before 1800 and after 1800 requirement novel courses for the English Major, and my grades were mostly B's and B-'s with very few C+'s from some of the hardest teachers in my opinon of the English Major like Plunkett and Johnson. My experience as an English major was above fair/average. All my teachers were nice, they were helpful, funny, social, and even though a few were tough graders like Plunkett and Johnson, overall, I loved going to class and learning. The best teacher I had in the English major was Professor Mahoney. I took the most classes with her: Intro to Literary Studies, Victorian Lit, Detective Fiction and Creative Writing. Professor Keohan was one of the best! He was the first teacher I took a class with in the English area. I took him for both Major British Authors and Politics in Literature. What's weird is he let's people skip out of EVERY class if they want to, but they have to be in class to hand in their term papers, take the mid term, and take the final. I never skipped. My favorite professors were: ENGLISH: Scherwatzky, Plasse, Mahoney, Keohan, Atkinson EDUCATION: Margolis, Roselli FINE ARTS: Sills I was an English major and Middle Schools concentration, but I dropped the concentration the year before graduation. I took many fine arts classes with professor Sills that it would have been better being a fine arts minor. Sills was my favorite professor overall. Anyone who wants to study drama, theatre, history of theatre, scriptwriting...take Sills! She's the best! I took Scriptwriting, Theatre I, Theatre II and History of Theatre II with Sills. Some of the funnest classes ever! The only areas I had it tough in were several of the required such as the Philosophy courses, in which I recieved a C in Philosophy from Herbert Meyer (Possibly retired or very old now) a C- (my lowest grade in college) in Ancient Philosophy from William Wians, a great teacher, but a subject I had it tough in, and in Urban Sociology (one of 3 required Soc/Psych courses) I ended up with a C from Professor Smith, also a great teacher, but the subject matter was very difficult for a few students who would constantly participate in class, yet he always was great with students dropping by his office and going over notes for upcoming tests.. All my other grades were B- and above with very few C+ grades. Proud to say I graduated with a low 3.0 (B) average. Mahoney, Sills and Scherwatzky all agreed to give me letters of recommendation for grad schools when I applied for Screenwriting, and were all overjoyed when I got an interview by UCLA in Spring of 2005. Though I was rejected (they only accept 25 students per year and most they are already familliar with from the Professional Program) I was one of only 50 or so students selected that year to interview, and at the interview, Richard Walter said whoever was selected to interview were considered best of the best submissions and though it would be difficult on who they would choose for the 25, we were the best submissions that year. That alone shows me I learned a lot as a writer at Merrimack. After I moved to Los Angeles, I've worked at CBS as a studio page on shows such as The Price Is Right (including Bob Barker's final show), American Idol and Dancing With The Stars, have been an actor and featured on Glee, Grey's Anatomy and Desperate Housewives, and currently work in the studios as a page on many sitcoms that film all over Los Angeles such as Mike & Molly, Mom, and 2 Broke Girls. read more

My response is directly towards Gretchen's and includes some of my own. Class of 87 wow that is a long time ago, almost 25 years her response has been created from. Of course things have change at Merrimack since then, I wasn't even born but am now a graduate! The school has grown and it is continuously growing in terms of student body. Having a larger campus (more buildings, etc. It's still the same size acreage) is a much better sell for incoming students and those who live on campus. The professors are a mix of different studies so unless you're a multi-major, you wouldn't know that professor was as great as they are unless you were able to apply all your subjects with perfection. They are the professors for a reason and having a widespread body of capabilities within the faculty, it's not just the same old professor-student relationship where you pass in all your work on time and only ask questions during class, but each of them has their own experience to pass onto their students in terms of sociability and degree education. The professors were actually my favorite part of Merrimack and is why I decided to respond to another's post about professor misinformation. The school rocks, I tried my very best in the EE major and passed without issue. I'm hoping one day to send my children there there but I'm only now 25. God bless future Merrimack Warriors. -- JH, '11 read more

Was an adjunct there. Two semesters, hoping for tenure, but found it all very political, all too comfortable for those in power. Why change a good thing attitude, with professors there since time began. Truthfully, not very up-to-date with the times. Save your money. To quote a student, "Academics: Every student is different but if anyone like myself has struggled with school in the past that is okay because this school is not very challenging. Theres really no such thing as homework in your classes and if it is teachers don't even bother to check it. My assignments have consisted of many papers and essays however but they are manageable. I came to college thinking it was going to be the hardest thing ever in which it probably is at other schools, but if you went to a private preparatory school or a challenging school in general you are all set and shouldn't have too much trouble with the academics here." read more