Applied Trends

After becoming a university, Missouri Western decided to raise the bar for academics and increase the amount of applied learning the students would be doing. Although most wouldn't consider that a cool or interesting trend, the fact is that at most college campuses are doing it too. 

Students are leaving college with an increased knowledge and practice in their field of study, which is what employers are looking for. More applied learning means an increase in internships, an increase in practical knowledge and unfortunately an increase in homework.

Because of the university's drive to become better academically, students' workloads have increased greatly, which can kind of be a damper on social lives.

With the competitive nursing department ranked high in the state, nursing majors have been busy making an impact on their academic lives instead of their night lives. Each student is required to do a avery large amount of clinical hours, as well as lots of studying to pass the hard tests and practicals.

With the new convergence journalism major on it's way to Western, all journalism majors have felt a heavy load as well. The projects have increased and the hours spent working on them have too.

Aside from the amount of stress we as students go through, the truth is the new academics have given students something to appreciate. By the time we graduate, we will have way more experience and knowledge than we came here with.