Avis sur Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán (UADY)

I reccomend the UADY; it has its problems but all-in-all Merida is a fun place to live for a semester or year.

I would recommend better administrative organization.

They are very friendly and it is a great place to study if you get involved. THey are quite relaxed though and don't expect them to chase you up about assignments/projects it is up to you to discipline yourself.

It depends which faculty you are in- I was in Economics, and the only foreigner, so i had a total immersion. The majority of foreign students go to Anthropology, where they make up about 20 percent of the faculty, and they have little interaction with Mexican students. I would suggest going to any faculty other than Anthropology if you want immersion. The quality of the courses is not very good; i did about the same amount of work at the UADY as I did in middle school.

The Mexican education system is very different from the American system in its philosophy. Professors with doctorates see themselves as deities, and tend to throw an incredibly hard exam at the end of the semester, without any warning as to what will be on the exam. Several of them seemed to enjoy failing the entire class and giving a second, or even third exam before anyone passed it.