Université Stendhal-Grenoble 3 Reviews

Type of housing: Apartment/House

Arranged by: Independently - My choice

If returning, I would choose: Apartment/House

Why? The University Campus in grenoble is situated outside of the city centre. As the city of Grenoble has much to offer, and it is during the day no problem to reach the campus by tram, I would choose again to live in the centre.

Personal comments:
Several time I visited fellow students living in University accommodation. The rooms were small, but clean and ha all the mod-cons expected from this type of accommodation. It is certainly recommendable.

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

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

Personal comments:
It has been a few years, so I can't remeber very much. What I do recommend though is to avoid the two English Pubs in town, that is if you want to speak French, don't go there!!!

Course recommendations:
Courses in France are a bit different than in the Netherlands. The teacher talks a lot and the students write a lot, we didn't use books. It's like being at school instead of being at university. Nevertheless, most courses I took were very interesting.

Personal comments:
I'd like to study more independently: with books or readers and a study program and the teacher introducing new subjects, explaining difficult stuff and answering questions. I liked the exams throughout the courses, because it prepares you better for the real exam.

Language of instruction: French

Main source of funding:
Government assistance

Other sources of funding:
Personal savings

Work opportunities:

Personal spending habits:
More on telephone expenses because I used a cell phone and was without a fixed home line. The occasion to speak with friends often is tempting, so the cell phone bill was definitely higher than my normal home phone bill. Accommodation was more, because the private organization I went through simply charged such a rate. Nightlife was more, because I could go out more since school work was not so demanding as at my home university.

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

Food: was the same price as at home.

I wish I had known...
Yes, that it really would not have been necessary to pay a private company to enroll me in school, set up my living arragements, etc. That I could have saved myself thousands and thousands of dollars if I would have gone 'independently'. And largely, the same opportunities as a student would have been open to me as all the other international students.

In my opinion:
Most people loved it.