Expenses Reviews
4.31 / 5 based on 54 reviews
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Cristina G
Expenses
Main source of funding:
Family
Other sources of funding:
Personal savings
Work opportunities:
It was not legal for me to work
Personal spending habits
Nightlife and telephone bills really caught up with me in the end. Since one is in a new, exciting, vibrant city, nightlife is important. Also, since I was not working in Paris, I had no extra income. Travel, in general, is cheaper in Europe and the opportunities are greater. Food did not amount to much since our facilities came equipped with a kitchen, a definate plus when considering longer-term accomodations.
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Overall, Telephone, Travel, Housing, Nightlife:
was more expensive than at home.
Food:
was the same price as at home.
Accessibility of student needs
Second-hand household items
Personal comments
Phone Cards! It saves so much money, but shop around for them first and try to find the best rates possible.
Also, buying metro tickets in bulk, such as a carnet or monthly pass, as opposed to singe tickets.
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Kiley K
Expenses
Main source of funding:
Other
Other sources of funding:
Government assistance<br>
Other
Work opportunities:
It was not legal for me to work
Personal spending habits
For most of the categories it's a matter of being in the endless opportunities Paris provided. You can easily enjoy yourself without dropping your savings and can eat and travel cheaply too.
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Travel, Telephone, Overall, Nightlife, Food:
was more expensive than at home.
Housing:
was the same price as at home.
Accessibility of student needs
Second-hand household items
Personal comments
Bring your laptop if you have one, saves on talking to loved ones back home (via aim or Skype which is IMO the best program ever created) and keeps you up to date with what's going on in the country and home. Cost of the trip from Uni was most surprising, though that depends on where you attend school.
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Christina P
Expenses
Main source of funding:
Other
Other sources of funding:
Family<br>
Personal savings<br>
Other
Work opportunities:
I didn't explore any work options
Personal spending habits
Paris, France is more expensive than Madison, WI. And also when studying abroad I was more prone to dine out, travel, and experience more of the night life. Food and drinks were more expensive and I also did not have the ability to cook my own food.
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Nightlife, Food, Housing, Travel, Telephone, Overall:
was more expensive than at home.
Accessibility of student needs
Second-hand household items
Personal comments
It did surprise me how expensive school supplies, food, clothing was. I would take out larger sums of money from the ATM to avoid service charges from my home bank and then store the money I didn't need to carry around in a safe place in my host family's home.
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Ava C
Expenses
Main source of funding:
Other
Other sources of funding:
Other
Work opportunities:
I didn't explore any work options
Personal spending habits
The exchange rate from the dollar to the euro was not in my favour.
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Overall, Travel, Nightlife, Food:
was more expensive than at home.
Telephone, Housing:
was the same price as at home.
Accessibility of student needs
Second-hand household items
Personal comments
At L'Institut Catholique, I didn't have to buy one text book, where as in New York I spent hundreds of dollars every semester.
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Heather K
Expenses
Main source of funding:
A private grant
Other sources of funding:
Personal savings<br>
Other
Work opportunities:
I didn't explore any work options
Personal spending habits
I wanted to make the most of my time there.
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Nightlife, Food, Housing, Travel, Telephone, Overall:
was more expensive than at home.
Accessibility of student needs
Second-hand household items
Personal comments
My debit card didn't work in France. I had to have a new card expedited over.
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anand_tella
Jawahar Lal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India
Engineering, Computer, Graduate, Independent
Expenses
Main source of funding:
Family
Other sources of funding:
Family
Work opportunities:
I didn't explore any work options
Personal spending habits
due to difference in value of Currency
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Food, Housing, Travel, Telephone, Overall:
was more expensive than at home.
Nightlife:
was the same price as at home.
Accessibility of student needs
Second-hand household items
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