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4.50 / 5 based on 97 reviews
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Student life
Describe host city:
Students interact with the local community without much university involvement
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Activities: Takes place mostly within the university/student environment
Nightlife, Travel: Takes place mostly outside the university/student environment
Personal social experience
Personal comments
I can'te remember the names of places so much; I was just interested in interacting with the natives asn I really didn't care where I went to do so. I went to a lot of home parties and get togethers.
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Housing
Type of housing: With a family
Arranged by: Host university
If returning, I would choose: With a family
Why?
Better to learn the culture and language when you live with a family.
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Personal comments
I prefer to live with a family because when I studied in Maastricht, it was difficult to learn of Dutch culture and language when you are not interacting with them.
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TobyFrowen
Academic
Course recommendations
I think that my expreience is different from most. Professors from my University traveled with us and taught our courses and we had class together (everyone from my university). I was disappointed in that I wanted to interact more with the natives both students and professors. It really was not an UDLA program but my university program at UDLA. That was disappointing to me but I feel that I mad ethe best of my experience. I went out in search of Mexican friends and I found them. So my assessment is really not of UDLA. I do not know what UDLA is really like as a educational institution. I just know the campus.
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My academic experiences
Interaction with teachers
Interaction with international students
Interaction with local students
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
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Languages
Language of instruction: English
Was learning English a key decision factor?
No, it wasn't.
Language difficulties
Administrative / Institutional
Personal comments
Being that it was my home university's program transported to UDLA, I had no language barrier because everythig was taught in my native tongue of English. My host family was not to have spoken anything but Spanish but my host brother always wanted to speak English to better himself. I made an extreme effort to make friends with people that didn't know Englsih so that I could learn Spanish.
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TobyFrowen
Overall
I wish I had known...
I wish I would have known from my university that they were the ones teaching. I probably would have just enrolled in UDLA and gone on my own.
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In my opinion:
Everybody loved it, you will too!
Important factors in my choice
(1) Unimportant – (4) Very important
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
I believe any study abroad program is worth the experience good or bad. I also beleive that you get what you give in a study abroad program.
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Expenses
Main source of funding:
Other
Other sources of funding:
Other
Work opportunities:
I didn't explore any work options
Personal spending habits
To get the full experience of the country and culture.
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Food, Telephone, Travel, Overall:
was more expensive than at home.
Nightlife:
was the same price as at home.
Housing:
was less expensive than at home.
Accessibility of student needs
Second-hand household items
Personal comments
The phone was very expensive to call home.
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