Housing - Reviews of Roskilde Universitet (RUC) | Denmark

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Eric L

Université de Provence Aix-Marseille I, Marseille, France
European Studies, Graduate, Erasmus

Housing

Type of housing: A room exchange

Arranged by: Host university

If returning, I would choose: Apartment/House

Why?

Because this is the best chance one can have to meet people outside the university. An exchange room was a good accomodation solution which was a bit expensive but not too much and it gave me the opportunity to meet native students and exchange a lot with them. But the academic world is narrow somehow and students are not representative of the entire society, so living in an appartment is a good solution to meet another part of the society and learn more.

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The Danish system is a bit surprising for a French person. This system gives a lot to the students, they have a lot comfort, of facilities that French student do not have. Besides the way those accomodation are organised (at least where I've been living) in a way that pushes people to meet each other. Students share a kitchen, a living room, a bar, a garden, they have to organise everything from buying salt and paper to the furnitures for the living room, a Hi-Fi etc. You learn a lot from such experience.

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francesca s

Università degli Studi di Trento, Trento, Italy
Language, Undergraduate, Erasmus

Housing

Type of housing: Apartment/House

Arranged by: Host university

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My university was quite in the countryside and my room was in town, so it took about 10 minutes by bike to go there. BUT it had a very nice position for which concerns the facilities like supermarkets, trains to go to Copenhagen.

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