Södertörns Högskola Reviews

Type of housing: On campus

Arranged by: Home university

If returning, I would choose: Apartment/House

Why? The Residence was quite far from the University and the Center of the City, plus the connections by bus or other public transport was very bad.

Personal comments:
The University is perfect for Exchange students because there are so many facilities and the integration with home students is very easy. Althoug the learning abilities used in class are differnet from my home University and very usfull.

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

Activities: Takes place mostly outside the university/student environment

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

Personal comments:
To me the night life in Stockholm is the mirror of the people that live there.Theater,dance and alot of experimental artistical aspects.As a modern agora where you can meet not only for drink a coffe or just read international press : Kulturhuset...with a fantastic cafe Café Panomara,where is the best place where to comment the last interpretation in the Satdsteater, lights , buildings withe the unique atmosphere from a northern capital.If you love contemporary dance:don´t miss the Dansesn Hus( good prices and excellent ambient).Maybe you prefer dance and not attending to this shows: the firt step is going to the Campus and meeting other peple in your same situation. Stokholm is plenty of museums: Vasa, Contemporary Art Museum designed by Moneo,Skansen,etc;just for walking Djurgárden.I always went to Sódermalm the youngest part of this fantastique city.

Course recommendations:
They cancelled almost all of the classes I was to take after I arrived in Sweden. They only had one book for an entire class to use, this was the norm in all of my classes. They need to structure the Swedish classes properly to enable us to learn tenses correctly.

Personal comments:
They need more books, and more organization among the staff and the international student planning.

Language of instruction: English

Main source of funding:
Family

Other sources of funding:
An ERASMUS grant

Work opportunities:
I didn't explore any work options

Personal spending habits:
Less for the telephone because all friends lived in the same building, so there was actually no need to call each other, it was easy to come by each other rooms. Accomodation was more expensive because in my home country I live home, and on average Stockholm accomodations are more expensive than in Rome. Nightlife is more expensive expecially because alcol in Sweden is taxed by the state and this makes pubs, restaurants and bars more expensive.

Nightlife, Housing: was more expensive than at home.

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

Telephone: was less expensive than at home.

I wish I had known...
To have more information about not only English - taught courses for Erasmus students but also have information about the courses in Swedish language, because the textbook and references are in English, so this imply the possibility of making extra courses if the relative teachers are willing to examine you in English (like it happened to me).

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