Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, Helsinki (SHH)

With your students card you are also a member of youth hostels. You get also a 50 % discount for railway trips, which were really cheap and comfortable in Finland. One surprise: cellular phones are much more expansive in Finland (home of Nokia) than in Austria.

To travel within Finland: you can go by railway, long-distance busses or even by airplane (stand-by tickets for students under 25 years are very cheap!). To travel to GUS: Take the chance and go to St. Peterburg and Moskow! If you go through an agency, they will organise the visa and everything for you. This is much easier. To travel to the Baltic countries: It is quite cheap to rent a car there and go aroung all three countries. Wonderful trip! To travel to Sweden: Just take the ferry boat - It's also called the "party boat" ;) Finland was a great experience for me, I would not like to miss it!

The language of instruction in the programme was English which is my native language.Since English is mostly spoken in the host country and the unversity (third language after Finnish and Swedish)communication wasnot a problem to me. Learning the nationallanguage was quite interesting to me.

A lot of exchange students are situated very close together, that is why we spend time together. Although the place is not in the city center, there is very nice neighborhood of forest and beach.