Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, Helsinki (SHH)

You get a lot assistance + information from your host university in advance, so you will not really have any problems. And the culture is not very different...

Choose it!!!

Finland has a higher price level, you phone your family at home and of course you take the chance to travel.

courses are very intensive. try to do your assignments right from the beginning because the amount of stuff to learn will be enourmous in the end. however, if you continuously participate the final exam will not be a problem. if you choose advanced courses you have to epxpect a huge amount of home exercises but often need not write an exam (a very useful information; i wish i would have been aware of that at the beginning of the semester). moreover it is interesting to know that you are asked about your own opinion. it is not only learnt facts that count.

i wanted to learn the finnish language but as hanken is a swedish university this was some sort of a problem. there are no finnish courses for beginners. if you are quick enough you can take a finnish course at the helsinki university, just across the street.

The apartment was very close to the university and to the city centre

how to get more contact to finnish people instead of only to other exchange students

A quite nice, but small university with a surprisingly large offer of English courses.

Closer to the city center