Type of housing: On campus

Arranged by: Host university

If returning, I would choose: Apartment/House

Why?

Personal comments:
There are so many disappointing things about this housing: 1) Lack of security: There was a girl that was attacked in her room by someone with a weapon. There is no means of security except for the door to your room. This is VERY disturbing because the bathrooms are in the hallway so you must exit your room in the middle of the night 2) Communal showers: must share a shower with the next room 3) communal bathrooms: 2 toilets for one HALLWAY meaning 12 people! Disgusting! 4) Residence Office: Responsiveness = Zero! except for when it comes to collecting money! 5) Cap on electrity: This is like living in the 80's. There is a cap on electricity in each room that you can not even boil water for tea nor use your hairdryer. Several complaints were made but as mentioned above, responsiveness is more than disappointing but appalling

Describe host city: Students interact with the local community without much university involvement

Activities, Nightlife: Takes place mostly within the university/student environment

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

Personal comments:
Do not let the name HEC Paris fool you. This is in a town called Jouy en Josas if you look carefully on the map. This is Zone 3 where there is no metro but only a train will take you into paris after changing trains. The latest you can stay out in Paris is 10PM if you want to come back to campus. Also the campus is on a hill so it takes 20 minutes walking uphill if you want to get back from the train station. There is student night life on campus called POW (party of the week) with open bar. However there was recently an incident where a student was beaten so bad by the security gaurds that he had to get several stitches on his jaw.

Course recommendations:

Personal comments:
none

Language of instruction: French

Main source of funding:
Government assistance

Other sources of funding:
None

Work opportunities:

Personal spending habits:

Food, Travel, Nightlife, Overall, Telephone, Housing: was the same price as at home.

I wish I had known...
how the school is not interested in accomodating international students. They work very hard to recruit them (by the way, in the year of 2007, only after we had rejected alternative schools and selected HEC, the shcool informed the students that the tuition would be DOUBLED).

In my opinion:
I loved it but I'm not sure everybody would.