Academics

Classes are not easy. It's a very good school and requires students to work and stay on top of classes, It is well known in area and in the country and has alumni in business and government positions.

Challenging work

The difficulty of the classes are fairly mixed. A few had grades mostly based on multiple choice tests. Even those classes tend to have a large writing assignment required, though.

The most challenging and educational portions of the classes I've had involved role play. I particularly remember a project in an organizational behavior class. My group spent a great deal of time preparing for the case we were given and ended up finding out during the role play we had made some incorrect assumptions. This tested our ability to think on our feet and matches more closely what would happen in a real world situation.

They are very strict when it comes to drinking and smoking. Siena is a smoking free campus which went in effect 2 years ago. Siena cares for the academics and works hard to keep it that way.