Thammasat University

- Snotty, vapid and snobby Thai students. Here to make some local friends? Let me know how that works out. Gossping and bragging. I've never had more vapid conversations then when I studied there. People ask you "Where are U from? Why U come here?" so they could share their story about that time they did an exchange in Switzerland. Group work is something else. If you do well, you make your fellow Thai students "lose face" which leads to series of petty backstabbing and more gossip. See how you like studying with a bunch of stuck up children who are doing courses you did at your high-school at a university level. - Most of Thai professors are just plain bad. Why don't you tell me all about that time you studied in France and say nothing about, y'know, lecture and its material? Screaming at me like I'm 5? Badmouthing your colleagues in front of the entire class? One class that lasts 3 hours? Sure, let's see that ping-pong show in Patpong because you're teaching a class about feminism and that makes sense. - Completely useless admin -- sandbagging, misplacing your documents and delaying things that need to be done. You need someone to actually DO their job? Some help? Some support? Fairness? Privacy? Nah, forget about it. With either three, you'll feel like walking on eggshells. No matter how nice or polite you are, you can't change things above. Thai people at TU are not critical and hateful *in your face*. You'll feel something is wrong and that you can cut tension with a knife. It won't hit you all at once. Maybe you'll just realize you had no positive experiences - Building is a disgrace. No proper library. A few buildings have AC. You have a few pamphlets for interesting lectures or things going on but you'll be shocked how little opportunities they have. Also, TU campus at The Prachan has monuments for massacre that actually happened some time ago. Maybe you want to study here because you want to do some exchange and travel and have fun. Classes are not hard. Only going to a BAD university does effect your whole exchange. If university is bad, then you won't learn anything properly NOR have fun.

+ Bangkok is cheap + You can see a lot of Asia with budget airlines like Air Asia + Maybe you find a fair landlord and rent a pretty cool place + Cheap, obviously

my training didn't really met my expectation but i could find easily the experience worth doing...

the situation (a bit outside the city, north) is really good when you look at bangkok... and you can still go to bangkok very easily with cheap transportation (traffic jams is part of the fun)

Take courses which concerns on the local region when possible. This is their strength. I recommend Economics of Selected Asian Countries. Do not take any principle courses. It is too basic.

Take one level higher than you normally would. The local students have to adjust to the way of critical thinking at a university. This "sucks" the life out of the principles courses. The teacher have to drag answers out of local students and much time is spend on this rather than contents.

No, because thats what made the experince challengindg, not knowing anything before leaving encouraged me to want to find out more.

The only recommendation I have is that the univeristy should to more activities/events to allow students to interact together more. Also the lectures shouldnt be as long as 3 hours because students tended to get distracted after a couple of hours.