Reviews of Linköpings Universitet (LIU) | Sweden

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martl635

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Telecommunications, Undergraduate, Erasmus

Housing

Type of housing: On campus

Arranged by: Host university

If returning, I would choose: Apartment/House

Why?

nice to have been in the campus, but after one year, it could be nice to live in a more private way

Personal assessment

Cost

Facilities

Location

Cleanliness

Space

Personal comments

The university takes care of everything dealing with accommodation, very good job

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martl635

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Telecommunications, Undergraduate, Erasmus

Student life

Describe host city:

Student life dominates the city

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

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

Personal social experience

Activities

Nightlife

Travel

Overall

Personal comments

Flamman, student pub, downtown of Linkoping there are very nice places

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martl635

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Telecommunications, Undergraduate, Erasmus

Academic

Course recommendations

Since I was not in a swedish program, I had sometimes collisions between some classes

My academic experiences

Quality of courses

Variety of courses

Access to resources

Interaction with teachers

Interaction with international students

Interaction with local students

Personal comments

We should have more interaction with local students, the teacher may not separate the exchange students in one single group

My opinion of the university assessment

Exams at end of course

Exams throughout the course

Essays and/or projects at the end of course

Essays and/or projects throughout the course

Overall

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martl635

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Telecommunications, Undergraduate, Erasmus

Overall

I wish I had known...

nothing

In my opinion:

Everybody loved it, you will too!

Important factors in my choice
(1) Unimportant – (4) Very important

Academic reasons

3

Culture

3

Costs

2

Activities

3

Campus life

3

Party / people

4

Weather / location

2

Personal recommendation

Very nice university, people from over Sweden come to study here, Linkoping is a student city and there are many facilities for students. The educational level is very high

During my experience abroad, I ...
(1) Never – (4) A lot

Became familiar with another culture

4

Traveled

4

Improved language skills

4

Met people from other countries

4

Became more independent

4

Partied a lot

4

Experienced a change in life

4

Advanced my studies & career

4

Final comments

I had a lot of fun, met new people. Swedish people are very friendly, but I was not easy to find good friends amoung Swedes because the erasmus network is very big, and a lot of exchange students are always together. Well it is up to you, I am improving my swedish everyday and I am trying to find a balance between beeing with erasmus students and with the Swedish students. To finish, I really recommand to go abroad, and Linkoping is a very good choice, I feel like a real student :-) so don t hesitate, just do it, you won t regret it, and if you do I will take the responsablity.

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martl635

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Telecommunications, Undergraduate, Erasmus

Expenses

Main source of funding:

Personal savings

Other sources of funding:

none

Work opportunities:

It was not legal for me to work

Personal spending habits

Night life is very activ in Linkoping, hard to stay at home :-), I have been travelling around Sweden and Scandinavia and this costs money

Travel, Nightlife:

was more expensive than at home.

Overall:

was the same price as at home.

Telephone, Food, Housing:

was less expensive than at home.

Accessibility of student needs

Second-hand text books

Second-hand household items

Computers / Internet

Administrative

Money from home

Personal comments

none

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martl635

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Telecommunications, Undergraduate, Erasmus

Languages

Language of instruction: English

Local language was: Different than language of instruction

Was learning English a key decision factor?

Yes, I wanted to improve my English

Was learning Swedish a key decision factor?

Yes, I wanted to improve my Swedish

How much did you improve your English?

My level before: At ease in most situations
My level after: No problems in any areas (including slang)

How much did you improve your Swedish?

My level before: Did not speak it
My level after: At ease in most situations

Language difficulties

Social

Educational

Administrative / Institutional

Overall

Personal comments

Everybody does speak english in Sweden, and this is amazing, but I choosed to learn Swedish to have a closer contact with Swedish people, and it goes quite good

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