Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM)

Since you are in another country and you don´t know anybody in the beginning, you have to focus on personal contacts.

Do also sport classes. They are fun and you will meet a lot of spanish students.

There is so much to do in Madrid alone. and then all of spain and europe. it costs alot to do things.

It gives you the chance to be more indipendent and to know not only the campus life, but also the lifestyle of the locals.

i wish I had have known a lot more about finding accomodation and the classes I would be taking

Madrid and Spain are great but this university is terrible. Badly organised, and don't care about their international students (especially if you come from a country where they don't get many students). They don't have any kind of orientation to help you settle in/find your classes/meet people (very unusual - I studied abroad in mexico and there were heaps of parties and information sessions at the start of semester). The locations sucks as well - way north of Madrid, over 40mins train ride from the central station. At the end of my studies they sent the wrong academic transcript to my home university so I haven't been able to get credit points for the courses I did yet. I have tried contacting several professors and administrative staff at the autonoma but they are not very responsive (a teacher from one of my classes rudely ignored me entirely) and so they have still not sent me the correct over six months after I got back home. NIGHTMARE!