Jönköping University

The university has great facilities and the professors are very knowledgable, however, if you are a foreigner thinking of studying here, there is a couple of things to keep in mind regarding the accommodation. While they give the impression of being able to choose by selective different accomodation alternatives if you are a foreigner you will be most definitely sent to Raslatt (one of the furthest and oldest student accommodation). The accomodation here is old and not very inviting. Raslatt is located in a pretty rough neighbour compared to the other students accomodation. Let's say that drug dealing and police are often seen here. What they won't tell you is that most foreigners will be placed there while Swedish and Nordic, in general, will be assigned the better places in the near the city centre. They will, of course, deny this, but in the 3 years that I have been in Raslatt, where about 800 students live, I haven't seen a single Swedish student. What's more, if you ask to swap between rooms even in the same building, they will tell you that you cannot even if they are empty. A simple request of moving from an apartment to another, will become a back and forth between the university and the landlord that owns that apartments, where both parties will tell you is up to the other, and the only way to get out of the accommodation is to give 3 months' notice. Which makes finding another room pretty impossible. I found their lack of even trying to accommodate basic requests so frustrating.