143 reviews
4.20 / 5 based on 143 reviews
Useful |
1
elodie w
Overall
I wish I had known...
nothing special
Read more >
In my opinion:
Everybody loved it, you will too!
Important factors in my choice
(1) Unimportant – (4) Very important
Personal recommendation
They have a good organisation to welcome the foreign students, so keep it. But, I would like studying definitevely there because I don't like the way of teaching.
Read more >
During my experience abroad, I ...
(1) Never – (4) A lot
Became familiar with another culture
Met people from other countries
Experienced a change in life
Advanced my studies & career
Final comments
When you go to Spain or another country abroad, you must bear in mind that it is an opportunity to improve your level in language, you must avoid staying with people who are from the same country. You will fall in a trap. So, you heve to speak with foreign people and spanish...and speak, a lot , a lot, because it si thanks to this way that you will be fluent.
Secondly, you have to adapt you to your new country and not the contrary. So you must be prepared to make a lot of efforts during this year. You must understand a culture, a way of acting of native people. Sometimes, you would not be agree,it is normal but you must understand.You must to be open minded and tolerant.
By the way, you will make your integration.
Then, be careful, at the beginning , you need to have a time of adaptation. Generally, it is one month or less. It depends of the person.
It is better to share a appartment with other people. It costs less and spanish students are used to practising in this way.
Spanish are not really preoccupied by the time. You must be patient.
To travel, they have a good red for buses. It cost less and it is rapid.
So, that's all, have a good year !!!
Read more >
Useful |
1
Michel M
Academic
Course recommendations
Course here tend to be annual courses. As I only stayed for a semester, I had little choice, but managed to arrange my timetable so that the earliest class started at 11am and that I had Friday off.
When you arrive, you get a booklet with all the courses on offer. You are not expected to decide straight away what you're gonna take for good. You have one month after the course starts to select your classes.
My advice: take your time, don't rush in the choice as ou will have to sit an exam in that particular subject!! Make a list of the courses you're interested or think that would be valuable to your education and pop in to see what they are like. Classes are held in seminars so you can pop in for a couple of weeks and if you don't like it, don't take it.
Some tutors take quite a lot into consideration that you're foreign and have some problems with the language and they will offer help when you need it. Others just expect you to follow the class just like everyone else.
When doing presentations, most tutors put you in a group with one or more spaniards, so you'll get a better opportunity to get to know them and they will help you with your assignment. Which means you're more likely to get a better mark!! They are usually more than happy to help with anything from notes to finding books about the course.
Read more >
My academic experiences
Interaction with teachers
Interaction with international students
Interaction with local students
Personal comments
More interaction with local students. As I stayed at the halls of residence, I had more contact with international students than with local spaniards. Most local students live in the city and most of them stay at their parents, so try to go out with them, get to know them. It's supposed to be an experience an exchange not only for you but also for them.
Classes never start in time, usually the tutor turns up about 10-15 min after the supposed starting time, but that's normal over here.
Read more >
My opinion of the university assessment
Exams throughout the course
Essays and/or projects at the end of course
Essays and/or projects throughout the course
Useful |
0
elodie w
Languages
Language of instruction: Spanish
Was learning Spanish a key decision factor?
Yes, I wanted to improve my Spanish
How much did you improve your Spanish?
My level before: Basic phrases
My level after: At ease in most situations
Language difficulties
Administrative / Institutional
Personal comments
At the beginning, I recognize that I was difficulties to understanf because of the rapidity of talking. It was too dificult when I had to go the administration because it is a specific voacabulary.
Since the beginning, I decided to talk only in spanis because I was there for that. So with the other foreign sutdent, we taked in spanish sometimes we mixed french words to define a english word then to find the spanish word that we wanted to say. It was funny. My level was better but when you are only with forign people like you, you used to ouse the same words, it is like a vicious circle. So my levet was stagnating. But, I had the opportunitis to meet spanish people and they became my friends, I improve my spanish level considerally.By the way, I used to the accent, the words which make the difference, the expression and I had the chance to have a friend who took the time to explain me some aspects of his culture, it was mi "padrino" during this trip. One times per week, w organised a meeting, one hourwe were talking in french and do some gramar execises because he was studied french, and the second hour, we were doing the same thing but in spanish for me.
Now, in my home university, I study the specific business vocabulary to perfect my language.
Read more >
Useful |
0
“Buen campus, buen ambiente, buenas instalaciones”
Daniel G
Spain, Undergraduate
Business Studies, 2012
Overall
En la facultad de económicas, profesorado a mejorar (en el 80%). Profesorado con ganas de seguir un libro al pie de la letra y pocas ganas de hacer partícipe al alumnado (clases de 200 personas). Clases aburridas y sin alicientes.
La tónica cambia al pasar de 1er ciclo a 2º ciclo. Clases más pequeñas, profesorado más involucrado y asignaturas más interesantes que ayudan a dirigirte hacia tu salida profesional.
Necesitan mejorar en cuanto a orientación laboral, con casos reales. Era una facultad demasiado teórica en cuanto a todo.
Read more >
Pros
Buena organización, gran cantidad de opciones de asignaturas libres.
Cons
Profesorado
Useful |
0
“THE ROAD TO MATURITY”
Yago Q
Spain,
Management Science, 2024
Overall
It's hard to keep one thing in the end, I think I've had the full university experience, well I'm missing an internship to live up to this good experience. The year of Erasmus was probably the best, maybe I sacrificed some things on an academic level but at the same time I grew up and matured a lot more than I could have done sitting in front of a book. And in the end I think that university is all about the people you meet and all the adversities and situations you have to face to stop being a child (the nidelity of maturity with which you arrive) and leave as a man.
Read more >
Pros
All the opportunities they give you to move and learn abroad
Cons
It would reduce bureaucracy and red tape in order to bring it closer to everyone.
Useful |
0
“Mucha teoría a falta de prácticas.”
Alberto C
Spain, Undergraduate
Engineering, Electrical, 2015
Overall
Ocurrió lo que tengo oído que ocurre en muchas otras universidades españolas: mucha teoría pero quedando algo descuidada la parte práctica.
Además no se vigiló mucho que los profesores implantasen el sistema Bolonia en sus clases, dando lugar en algunos casos a algo de caos.
En mis años de estudio las energías renovables considero que no tenían demasiado peso en el temario, pero he sabido que en cursos posteriores sí lo han ganado.
Read more >
Pros
Varios de los profesores son bastante dedicados y puedes aprender bastante de ellos.
Cons
No se vigila qué imparten y cómo sus materias los profesores, por lo que en algunas de las asignaturas apenas puedes aprender algo.
en 
English
Español
Français