Universidad de Córdoba (UCO)

I wish I had known how amazing it would be and then I wouldnt have been so anxious about going!

Its a great place to study and not very big. Therefore there is not a huge student community and so there are less foreign students which will force you to speak more of the language. Avoid socialising with foreign people and integrate with the locals as that is the only true way to learn the language and experience the culture

The timetables were rather difficult to organise and I was unable to pick many of my preffered subjects because they clashed with other obligatory classes. However, European Studies was the most interesting and the teacher was very good!

The subjects which we were able to study within the timetable were not often relevant to what was being studied in our course in our Home University. The class exams were also marked negatively, if you got 10 answers wrong and 10 right you would get 0 which does not help you learn where you have gone wrong in the exam.

I spent more on food because we often ate out a lot in order to try new dishes. I called home more often and used the Internet for studying so our phone bill was high. Housing and nightlife are much cheaper in Spain than in the UK because of the exchange rate. I travelled as much as I would at home, maybe a bit more but again it was cheaper to live and travel in Spain than in the UK. Overall I spent less because I did not have a part time job like I did at home, therefore I did not have as much money. I did work occasionally doing PR but I still did not have as much as I did at home unfortunately!

I would choose to live in my own apartment and share with other Spanish people of my own age so that I could practice the language and make more friends