Reviews of Estonian Business School | Estonia

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Julia B

FH Joanneum, Graz, Austria
Business Studies, Graduate, Erasmus

Student life

Describe host city:

Students interact with the local community without much university involvement

Activities, Travel, Nightlife: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment

Personal social experience

Activities

Nightlife

Travel

Overall

Personal comments

Nightlife: some clubs that have to be seen: Hollywoold, Parlament, Terrarium; best place to drink cocktails is Kaheksa! Everything else you have to discover yourself! watch out for university and esn events!

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Julia B

FH Joanneum, Graz, Austria
Business Studies, Graduate, Erasmus

Housing

Type of housing: Apartment/House

Arranged by: Host university

If returning, I would choose: Apartment/House

Why?

EBS has no campus and it is really convenient to live in or near the Old Town

Personal assessment

Cost

Facilities

Location

Cleanliness

Space

Personal comments

EBS does not has a campus, therefor they really invest time to find appropriate flats for all the exchange students

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Julia B

FH Joanneum, Graz, Austria
Business Studies, Graduate, Erasmus

Overall

I wish I had known...

I wished I would have known that so many French and German exchange students were in Tallinn at this time

In my opinion:

Everybody loved it, you will too!

Important factors in my choice
(1) Unimportant – (4) Very important

Academic reasons

2

Culture

3

Costs

4

Activities

4

Campus life

3

Party / people

3

Weather / location

2

Personal recommendation

not all tutors are really helpful! they promis a lot, but the reality... Have an eye on them! But everything else... continue on this bath, good job!

During my experience abroad, I ...
(1) Never – (4) A lot

Became familiar with another culture

3

Traveled

4

Improved language skills

3

Met people from other countries

3

Became more independent

4

Partied a lot

4

Experienced a change in life

4

Advanced my studies & career

4

Final comments

Tallinn is a very good starting point to discover the Baltics (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) as well as Finnland and Russia. Before university starts try to get into the EILC course (erasmus intensive language course) - it's really interesting and you will find a lot of friends!

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Julia B

FH Joanneum, Graz, Austria
Business Studies, Graduate, Erasmus

Academic

Course recommendations

Master courses are not always better than bachelor courses as the master courses are flooded with chinese students!

My academic experiences

Quality of courses

Variety of courses

Access to resources

Interaction with teachers

Interaction with international students

Interaction with local students

Personal comments

some courses are blocked within one or two weeks, then they are really intensive! the maximum hours of one course per day shouldn't exeed 4 hours

My opinion of the university assessment

Exams at end of course

Exams throughout the course

Essays and/or projects at the end of course

Essays and/or projects throughout the course

Overall

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Julia B

FH Joanneum, Graz, Austria
Business Studies, Graduate, Erasmus

Languages

Language of instruction: English

Local language was: Different than language of instruction

Was learning English a key decision factor?

Yes, I wanted to improve my English

Was learning the local language a key decision factor?

Yes, I wanted to improve my the local language

How much did you improve your English?

My level before: At ease in most situations
My level after: At ease in most situations

How much did you improve your the local language?

My level before: Did not speak it
My level after: Everyday knowledge (shopping, directions, etc.)

Language difficulties

Social

Educational

Administrative / Institutional

Overall

Personal comments

Estonian is a quite difficult (14 cases) but very interesting language. You will no need it for the daily life in Tallinn as nearly everyone can speak English, but it's nice to have notion about what is written in a newspaper or what people in the street are talking about. At university your perfectly come along with a profund English knowledge as the whole international BBA or MBA is in English.

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Julia B

FH Joanneum, Graz, Austria
Business Studies, Graduate, Erasmus

Expenses

Main source of funding:

Family

Other sources of funding:

An ERASMUS grant

Work opportunities:

I didn't explore any work options

Personal spending habits

in general the life in Estonia is still a bit cheaper than in Austria. The reason why I am spending more money for housing here than at home is that I am living in a student residence at home and here I have my own flat near Old Town and the university.

Housing:

was more expensive than at home.

Overall, Food, Travel, Telephone, Nightlife:

was less expensive than at home.

Accessibility of student needs

Second-hand text books

Second-hand household items

Computers / Internet

Administrative

Money from home

Personal comments

do not think that shopping is so cheap hear, that's not true! The well known brands sell their clothes for the same price as in other countries and there are no low budget fashion shops (like H&M)

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