Type of housing: Apartment/House

Arranged by: Host university

If returning, I would choose: With a family

Why? I can adapt new environment and study the local language as soon as possible if I have chance to live with local family.

Personal comments:
The hardware condiction of the accommdation is not bad, but some neighbours are difficult to get alone with them. In additional, the school give me less help in the process of finding a room.

Type of housing: Apartment/House

Arranged by: Host university

If returning, I would choose: Apartment/House

Why? It was nice to live in the same house with several other students. The people in the same house formed a kind of family away from home.

Personal comments:
Good, although some of my friends had to wait for few weeks before they were able to get a room which is sad for them.

Type of housing: International student house

Arranged by: Host university

If returning, I would choose: Where i lived

Why? Because i´d got the chance to meet a lot of international students as well as ducth ones.Actually,There were no foreigners in the corridor where i was living

Personal comments:
The housing office works pretty good in comparison to my home university

Type of housing: student house

Arranged by: Home university

If returning, I would choose: student house

Why? meeting people from diff. cultures is interesting

Personal comments:
I really liked my first student house. Unfortunately it burned down. Thanks to the housing office and the help from the Hanzehogeschool we all have now very new places.

Type of housing: student house

Arranged by: Host university

If returning, I would choose: student house

Why? because it is the easiest way to create contact in such international settings

Personal comments:
No special comment, everything was provide and well done. After each one has to adapt his own behaviour to fit in this cultural-mix.

Type of housing: Apartment/House

Arranged by: Host university

If returning, I would choose: Apartment/House

Why? the facility is good. i have single room for my self and it is quite most of the time and there are lots of international students and that makes it more attractive

Personal comments:
none

Type of housing: Apartment/House

Arranged by: Host university

If returning, I would choose: Apartment/House

Why? the best place to meet people; cheapest way to live

Personal comments:
the rooms are adequate but to expensive; social live is outstanding; you will never fell homesick there

Type of housing: Student house

Arranged by: Host university

If returning, I would choose: Student house

Why? Opportunity to meet lots of new interesting people from other cultures

Personal comments:
For that price could have been better. Quite good in general, but too expensive

Type of housing: With a family

Arranged by: Independently - I had no other choice

If returning, I would choose: Apartment/House

Why? because the building was full of international students

Personal comments:
exept the fact that the room was small and without internet connection, it was simply nice.

Type of housing: Apartment/House

Arranged by: Host university

If returning, I would choose: Apartment/House

Why? you are free to choose what to do and nobody disturbs you when you need to study.

Personal comments:
if i had choice, i would never talk to housing office.

Type of housing: A room with other internationals "container"

Arranged by: Host university

If returning, I would choose: Apartment/House

Why? I like to have everything in order and clean. However I´m use to all kinds of accomodations, sharing rooms or bymyself.

Personal comments:
It was a special place for the international students, use to call them "containers". The place was terrible, but my room was pretty good. The other 18 students and me shared the living room, kitchen, showers and toilets. We were in charge of the cleaness of the place and sometimes this make it kind of difficult. The noise was quite a lot but with communication everything work out pretty good. It was the best experience in my life. The university was 5 min by bike and that make the place really expensive, one thing for another.

Type of housing: A room exchange

Arranged by: Home university

If returning, I would choose: Apartment/House

Why? More free, more quiet (less students)

Personal comments:
Student house is nice for the integration, but maybe not for a long period

Type of housing: dormitory

Arranged by: Host university

If returning, I would choose: On campus

Why? Lot of friend s and people around and usually close to the university.

Personal comments:
The house we lived as in very bad shape, the maintenance of building was neglected for a several years. There was a cleaner who visited at our place every week, but anything was clean after persons visit. We did not have proper cleaning equipment so we could not clean our rooms. In general there was a lots of fun living in there, we shared our rooms with other exchange students.

Type of housing: Apartment/House

Arranged by: Host university

If returning, I would choose: On campus

Why? Because I could have more oportunities to meet other cultures.

Personal comments:
Groningen is a dificult place to find accommodation. There are not enough rooms and apartments for all the students. From my point of view, they should arrange better the exchange programmes within the rest of the European universities, and do not invite so many students to study in Groningen if they can not afford a room for them to live in Groningen.

Type of housing: International student house

Arranged by: Home university

If returning, I would choose: International student house

Why? Since i can meet/know different country's student,i can make friend with them.

Personal comments:
none

Type of housing: International Student House

Arranged by: Host university

If returning, I would choose: International Student House

Why? It's the best way to know people and other students.

Personal comments:
The only problem I have found is that there is not much communication between Dutch people and foreign students. It's a pity. My resident is very big, it's better a smaller International Student House. At the begining, I though that I would be more keepping in touch with native people but it hasn't been like this.

Type of housing: Student house.recently-appartment

Arranged by: Host university

If returning, I would choose: Student house

Why? The best time i ve ever had!!!

Personal comments:
Rooms are small but it is always a lot of fun.

Type of housing: International Student House

Arranged by: Host university

If returning, I would choose: International Student House

Why? You meet a lot of new people immediatelly after you arrive at the International Student House. Really warm atmosphere.

Personal comments:
There is an International Housing Office in Groningen, which provides accomodation for foreign students. If you get lucky you get a good room from an International student house. Rents are not cheap in Holland. It's better to live less than 5km from downtown and your faculty.

Type of housing: A room exchange

Arranged by: Home university

If returning, I would choose: A room exchange

Why? This room is quite suitable for me

Personal comments:
comfortable and convenient

Type of housing: guesthouse

Arranged by: Host university

If returning, I would choose: Guesthouse

Why? Interesting, meet other nationalities, never feel lonely...

Personal comments:
none