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3.82 / 5 based on 128 reviews
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manoelinho
Expenses
Main source of funding:
Personal savings
Other sources of funding:
Family
Work opportunities:
I didn't explore any work options
Personal spending habits
Everything is more expensive in England that in my home country. And everything is more expensive in London than in the rest of England! As for travelling, London is very well positioned if you want to travel to Europe (Belgium, France, Holland, Germany, Scotland, etc) so it´s difficult not to be tented!
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Overall, Nightlife, Travel, Housing, Food:
was more expensive than at home.
Telephone:
was the same price as at home.
Accessibility of student needs
Second-hand household items
Personal comments
Well, I didn´t get a debit card, the bank just issued a savings card for me, so I couldn´t use it to pay, just to get money at ATMs... Cost-saving tip: walking from the campus to central London only takes half an hour, so it´s a nice walk when it´s sunny and you can spare the tube
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Academic
Course recommendations
It entirely depends on your degree, but if you do European Studies at the faculty of Social Science, go for any subject taught by Prof. Rojas! He's an excellent economist.
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My academic experiences
Interaction with teachers
Interaction with international students
Interaction with local students
Personal comments
If you're an exchange student, don´t spend too long on your assignments, go out and enjoy instead, as in general it´s pretty easy to get good marks as your essays goes (erasmus' level is very good compared to locals' level). I advise you to attend lessons, prepare them half decently in advance and concentrate, that takes much of the hard work away later on!
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My opinion of the university assessment
Exams throughout the course
Essays and/or projects at the end of course
Essays and/or projects throughout the course
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Bérengère A
Housing
Type of housing: On campus
Arranged by: Host university
If returning, I would choose: On campus
Why?
Living on campus when you are a foreign student is very good to meet people and to learn living on its own without any parents.
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Personal comments
My accomodation named Mac Laren House was next to my university (about 2 minutes on foot). It was organized in appartments of 7 rooms with one big kitchen. All the rooms were quite small but they had its own bathroom and toilets which was quite appreciable. The rooms were clean when I arrived whereas it was not the case for the kitchen.
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Overall
I wish I had known...
Yes, I wish I had know nobody from my host university was going to aware of my arrival. Whose fault? Both my home and host universities, I imagine...
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In my opinion:
Most people loved it.
Important factors in my choice
(1) Unimportant – (4) Very important
Personal recommendation
Don´t take it TOO seriously (I think this applies to any erasmus student in any university)
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During my experience abroad, I ...
(1) Never – (4) A lot
Became familiar with another culture
Met people from other countries
Experienced a change in life
Advanced my studies & career
Final comments
Take the chance to travel to European capitals, it´s just one night trip. Go out as much as you can and mingle up with everyone, having fun is also a good way to achieve your objectives.
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Rikke J
Overall
I wish I had known...
The exact classes I could choose from. I only knew the overall course title and was first told the exact courses offered after I had arrived. I had to make a quick decision and was unable to prepare from home.
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In my opinion:
Most people loved it.
Important factors in my choice
(1) Unimportant – (4) Very important
Personal recommendation
In the European Studies Department the professors were outstanding both in the extend of their knowledge and how they conveyed it.
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During my experience abroad, I ...
(1) Never – (4) A lot
Became familiar with another culture
Met people from other countries
Experienced a change in life
Advanced my studies & career
Final comments
The university experience was very enlightning and London is a great city.
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Housing
Type of housing: On campus
Arranged by: Host university
If returning, I would choose: On campus
Why?
You can interact with all the other students, if that´s what you look for.
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Personal comments
Despite the high fare, sharing a flat of the halls of residence with other five international students was good fun. I feel curious about what living somewhere else, with standard londonners (if they exist at all!), would have been like, but I´m happy to have lived by the uni, that entails quite a number of advantages.
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