Monthly Archives: August 2016

GVSU Off-Campus Housing: 5 Top Rated Allendale Landlords

Finding the best off-campus housing can be as much of a gamble as leaving your roommates home alone with a fridge full of your leftovers—you never know what you’ll find when you walk in the door. Will the place be clean when you move in? Is your landlord a stand-up guy? Will the walls be paper-thin? Questions like these that can give students anxiety when locking in a year-long lease.

To hopefully quell some of these fears (and the other problems students encounter with landlords), we’ve simplified the research process and combed through hundreds of Google reviews for apartments and property management companies near the GVSU campus.

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Grand Valley State’s building for health sciences. (Flickr)

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25 Safest College Campuses in 2016

There is a pretty extensive list of things you have to worry about when you decide to leave home and head for college grounds, and in a perfect world, staying safe on campus wouldn’t be one of them. Unfortunately, campus safety is not created equally, and some schools tend to outperform the rest.

We took a look at the data and settled on a list of the 25 safest post-secondary schools across the nation, exhibiting the least amount of on-campus crime per capita than their fellow campuses. Rest assured you can walk to class, take a seat on the quad or catch all the Pokémon you desire at the following safest college campuses with at least some peace of mind. Continue reading