University of Leeds

Coming from an American Unversity, the courses at Leeds were much more difficult and demanding of my time.

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Get them pre-approved before you go!! Contact host teachers!

Just know that it will be different!!

Check out books early from the library, they don't give readers!

Make the reading more accessable

There is a great diversity of modules you can do, take advantage of that.

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Coming from Sweden I'm used to studying a course at a time. It is important to consider before you start how you think that you will react to few lecture hours a week and do severall courses at once. It is too easy to leave it all too late!! I chose to not interact with other international students, however there are a lot of them in Leeds and if you want to meet students from other parts of the world it's easy as pie, just keep an eye open for what is going on at the international centre, also the was an Erasmus society at the union. These are also good ways of meeting English students that have been or plan to go abroad studying.

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Registering for courses is kind of a nightmare at Leeds. I would advice to look through the course offerings at Leeds and make sure the ones you are interested in are available the semesters you are there. Then make a list with plenty of backups in case times conflict or courses are full.

Coming from the US, the acadamic style was very different. There is less hand holding in terms of frequent examinations or assignments. I felt like I learned less in the courses then I would have at my home institution. On the plus side, the smaller workload allowed me to enjoy all sorts of travel.