Type of housing: Students Residence

Arranged by: Host university

If returning, I would choose: Residence

Why? Because there is where you meet people who are on exchange and you can arrange thousands of plans and parties. Also it´s easy to get an idea of what subjects people are taking which always help to have a friend in the same subjects...

Personal comments:
It was a dorm at the Prater, the suburb is not that good at night but it´s safe and many students live at the same dorm. There many subway and tram stations. The problem was that some "study rooms" were closed and they only opened for the cleaning women coffee.

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

Nightlife, Travel: Takes place mostly within the university/student environment

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

Personal comments:
My favourite places in Vienna was the Burggarten, where I used to go during spingtime with the other exchance students. My favourite nightspot was on the "Ring" and it was named Havana, there was really nice music and on Monday there was the student night. In Vienna there are alot of clubs downtown, like palais Eschenbach, a singular example of a disco in an historical palace. I miss walking downtown, eating in tipical Austrian restaurants like Siebenstern.

Course recommendations:
The courses of the international program are in english and they helped me to get credits even when my German wasn't that good. Choose the classes as soon as the enrollment is open, they get filled-up really quick, given the huge amount of students at the WU. Take classes in German with regular students, it helps to understand their way of learning.

Personal comments:
The number of students didn't allow everyone to get the classes one needed. I wish I had had someone expaining me the difference between a seminar a Proseminar, a Vorlesung, die Spezielle and so on. I understood it only at the end.

Language of instruction: German

Main source of funding:
Personal savings

Other sources of funding:
Family
A private grant

Work opportunities:
I didn't want/need to work

Personal spending habits:
I wanted to get a full experience so I crammed more entertainment in. The telephone however was way too expensive. I could call across the ocean cheaper than calling within the city.

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

Food: was the same price as at home.

Housing: was less expensive than at home.

I wish I had known...
To have some greater knoledge in Information Systems.

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