Type of housing: Apartment/House

Arranged by: Host university

If returning, I would choose: Apartment/House

Why? the shared apartments are the only - ONLY good option in alicante. and what is more - better live in ALICANTE, not in San Vicente - Alicante atleast looks like a city : )))

Personal comments:
the university dormitories are too expensive compared to the shared flats. there are two options where to live - San Vicente, which is right next to the university but is a village and Alicante - which is down on the sea. Not good not bad. i'd say it's a good place to be for like 3-4 months not more.

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:
Everyone is going to tell u that "the barrio" is the only place - well it is NOT! there is a bunch of alternative bars just on the other side of Alfonso X el Sabio street.

Course recommendations:
Prior to my coming here i was told i am going to study in English. i studied in Spanish. The teachers are really cool but the organization of the courses sux. but foreigners with bad Spanish are not given pressure at all. People are cool. Organization is Spanish type : )

Personal comments:
the assessment system is ridiculous - in every class it is different. the biggest problem - the computer science students are given incredible amount of home work.

Language of instruction: Spanish

Main source of funding:
An ERASMUS grant

Other sources of funding:
Family

Work opportunities:
It was not legal for me to work

Personal spending habits:
My home country standard is quite lower than Spanis. so everything here is like 2 times more expensive than at home (except of food from the supermarket :D)

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

I wish I had known...
Well UA was quite an experience for me. First thing - what i was told it will be had nothing to do with what it really was. I was supposed to have half of my classes in English - i had them all in Spanish. The organization here is ridiculous it is like in a state of war. i had more problems fixing the 6-7 documents than getting my exams. the website of the university is ONLY in Spanish and is also ridiculous with its 100000000 options - good luck with finding whatever. Nobody here speaks Spanish - it is just full of erasmus/exchange students. lots of US... for all my time here i barely know any Spanish people. Another thing - at some moment through the semester i found i was given much more pressure on than some friends of mine - it turned out that for some reason Computer Science students have 10 times more work than the others. overall - it was shocking - not bad but... weird : )) do not expect just easy time if u study IT : )

In my opinion:
Most people loved it.