Type of housing: A room exchange

Arranged by: Host university

If returning, I would choose: A room exchange

Why? If I would go on exchange there again, I would choose to live in the same appartment. The location was great, right between the Business School and the city centre.

Personal comments:
In general housing at this university is very good. Most residences have a phone line and internet. There is however one residence that could use a lot of improvement. This is my residence; we were the only ones who did not have a phone line. The building was very old as well. But the fact that I was among exchange students (around 70, but sharing an appartment with 5 others) and had a good location made up for this all.

Describe host city: Students equally interact with the local and student community

Activities: Takes place mostly within the university/student environment

Nightlife, Travel: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment

Personal comments:
Student House. It's a cafe at night, wednesday nights is International Students night. It's a great place, with a good atmosphere and room to dance. They play popular music. Club Cavy. Is a pretty fancy place, filled with beautiful people. A lot of students (Danish/international) go there on thursdays. They play mostly R&B music. Dakota. It's a club/cafe. Is a great place too with good atmosphere. Vega. It's a big club that is well known club in Copenhagen. Rust is a good cafe as well. There are plenty of nice pubs in the city centre, e.g. Old English Pub, Kennedy's, Shamrock, Mojo bar. What you should do is visit the amusement park Tivoli when the season starts again. Copenhagen has a lot of parks and museums. There are also nice museums outside of Copenhagen, e.g. a castle in Hellsingor and the modern art musuem in Louisiana.

Course recommendations:
The course Intercultural Management is very nice. It required a lot of interaction with the teacher. Then there is the course International Advertising. This one is very interesting as well; we had a famous teacher (John Philip Jones) A drawback was that the course was not very organized.

Personal comments:
They use a different type of exams in a lot of courses. Here they often use, oral exams; I have never had that experience at my home university. It was a bit scary at first sight. However, there is a positive atmosphere at these oral exams.

Language of instruction: English

Main source of funding:
A private grant

Other sources of funding:
Family
Personal savings
An ERASMUS grant

Work opportunities:
I didn't explore any work options

Personal spending habits:
Because I had limited funds, I did not want to spend too much on food groceries. Housing was more expensivew because my rent was very high. Since most of my friends lived in the same building or around the corner, there was no immediate need to use my mobile phone to call. Because calling here is more expensive (in Denmark I had a prepaid card, while at home I have a montly subscription) I text-messaged a lot. I went out more often in Denmark, leading me to spend more in the Nightlife category. If you're on exchange you want to see more of the countries and of the surrounding countries. In general, prices in Denmark are a bit higher than in the Netherlands.

Travel, Nightlife, Overall, Housing: was more expensive than at home.

Food: was the same price as at home.

Telephone: was less expensive than at home.

I wish I had known...
It didn't occur to me that a lot of exchange students were going to be travelling in Scandinavia and rest of Europe. Otherwise I would have saved up more money for travelling.

In my opinion:
Everybody loved it, you will too!