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4.03 / 5 based on 96 reviews
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benjamin T
University of Tours François Rabelais, Tours, Norway
Law, International, Graduate, Erasmus
Student life
Describe host city:
Students equally interact with the local and student community
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Travel, Activities, Nightlife: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment
Personal social experience
Personal comments
Don't miss Bla bar, it's a really nice place near the river where you may find all the best bands of norway. You also have the coffe hour at the university where you may meet a lot of international students.
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Diego F
Academic
Course recommendations
Choose the courses according to the assessment method, there's a broad choice: if you choose the home exam option, it may take two weeks to pass an exam instead of 6 months... but of course it depends on the subject. Take Norwegian language courses and give your best; it may seem unnecessary, but if you wanna spend a whole semester or year together with non-locals only... ya know what I mean?
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My academic experiences
Interaction with teachers
Interaction with international students
Interaction with local students
Personal comments
Learn Norwegian, it may seem difficult but it's not, especially if you attend classes and live together with the people. If you don't, you'll certainly regret it, believe me!
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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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Diego F
Expenses
Main source of funding:
Personal savings
Other sources of funding:
An ERASMUS grant
Work opportunities:
I worked during my study abroad experience
Personal spending habits
Food is the most important issue. Almost everything is imported, so it's very expensive, and what is not imported (potatoes and little more) is produced at the very high Norwegian wages, so it costs quite much all the same. Housing was less expensive than in my city, because there's a lot of space for students in Oslo. Nightlife was the same as at home (so pretty high!) but you have to consider that getting to the place is very expensive, since public transport costs a lot (about 60€/month for a monthly prepaid ticket, 90€ for non-students; single fare: about 2,60€).
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Travel, Overall, Food:
was more expensive than at home.
Nightlife:
was the same price as at home.
Housing, Telephone:
was less expensive than at home.
Accessibility of student needs
Second-hand household items
Personal comments
Go to the immigrants' market, open every day in Grønland (near the bus terminal), it's VERY cheap!
Books and photocopies are VERY expensive, try to loan them in the library and copy only what you really need.
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Carlos E
Overall
I wish I had known...
How difficult is to get cross country skies throught the university (it is way cheaper than rent them somewhere for the winter season)
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In my opinion:
Everybody loved it, you will too!
Important factors in my choice
(1) Unimportant – (4) Very important
Personal recommendation
go to every event they organize, meet as many norwegians as you can
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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
it is a wonderful experience everybody should have. Norway is a wonderful country with an amazing society and a very developed economy, perfect for a social science's student
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“Language summer course”
Karar h
Norway, Other courses
, 2021
Overall
I have applied for norwegian summer course and applied my documents before deadline 23/4 and then sent an email asking if there are further documents needed, instead of pointing out the rest of the documents needed, i have been told to go back to admission link which wasnt much of help from their side.
A month later i get to know that my application was denied due to some missing documents and have been told to wait for fall semester to register again as i have missed the deadline date for uploading my documents....
However, im still in contact with admission office to know why i was not qualified for the language summer course, they tell me that they have sent an email to me on 23rd telling me to upload more documents. Now i have checked all my emails and i can not find that email on 23rd they are talking about.
I wrote another email saying i havent received the email but i got a reply for my email with an email saying: as i mentioned before you received an email etc...., i did everything the right way and even emailed to ensure i have uploaded everything needed.
Mistake was not from my side as they claim i have received an email that i havent received. Its very disappointing planning my summer for the course that i wont join due to a mistake caused by the university and im blamed for it as they wont accept the fact that its their fault.
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Pros
So far nothing
Cons
Irresponsible for their mistakes, not accurate with details and information, admission office lack english skills as they can not understand my email as i have to repeat my point more than 3 times in 3 different emails so communication skills is bad
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Alice B
Overall
I wish I had known...
I wish I should have spoken a bit of Norwegian
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In my opinion:
Everybody loved it, you will too!
Important factors in my choice
(1) Unimportant – (4) Very important
Personal recommendation
it is really well organized and you are supposed to work hard, due to really strict marks. So being an Erasmus studnet in Oslo does not mean party all the day. At teh end of my courses I locked myself at home for studying.
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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
If you want to go to Norway, it is better having a grant, that helps you to cover up most of the expenses. otherwise you have to be sure to have a proper ammount of savings. The Erasmus grant is almost nothing.
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