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Universität St. Gallen (UNIVERSITY OF ST. GALLEN)

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Great place to study
Toma B
Switzerland, Undergraduate
Business Studies, 2019
Overall
A great reputation throughout German speaking Europe and beyond. The University is small enough to offer personalized study experience for anyone. Many interesting courses are offered.
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Pros
Reputation, quality of the student body
Cons
Not very practically oriented
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Peter V
Washington & Lee University, Lexington, VA, United States
Business Studies, Undergraduate, Independent
Academic
Course recommendations
Every "department" (accounting, banking, etc) can only offer two classes per semester, so there is a natural lack thereof. If you already know what you're interested in (accounting or finance, for example), you're pretty much screwed as far as course selection is concerned. Maybe one finance and one accounting course per semester for the undergraduates and then you're left to choose between filler and masters courses. Obviously there's no problem with the masters courses (in fact, they are more representative of what I can get at my home university in the States), it's just that that kind of selection should be mirrored in the undergraduate course catalog. Courses are all block-fashion, meaning you've got one lecture a week, sometimes for four hours straight. Dealing with TAs instead of the professors themselves is a pain in the ass, and the Swiss students show no interest in the international students, with few exceptions.
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My academic experiences
Quality of courses
Variety of courses
Access to resources
Interaction with teachers
Interaction with international students
Interaction with local students
Personal comments
Good God, yes! One exam and that's it??? I know not ALL courses operate this way, but the fact that at least 1/3 of them do is quite disturbing. You have no clue how well you know the stuff until you step foot into the final exam. No assessment in the middle of the semester. **YOU HAVE TO SIGN UP TO TAKE TESTS** What genius came up with this idea? I mean if you're gonna take a class, you are gonna take the test, or is this just an American thing? So yeah, I didn't get that memo, which means that I wasn't ALLOWED to take my tests. Fortunately, I took one of them with the exchange students right at the end of the semester, so I got SOME credit for the semester, but on the whole it was a waste of 3 months of my time and money. Will be a blast explaining that to my home university when they ask what I did for the whole semester since I got only 4 credits. The faculty also seems to be way out of touch with the student body. This, however, can be topped: the administration is on it's own level, somewhere circling Venus, as if not caring about what the faculty OR the students wanted was a cool thing. Example: the university REQUIRES many courses to have 2 semester hours of what amounts to homework. However, both students and professors hate it because nobody knows how to approach/formulate it. It's kind of a general rule that if something is mandatory/forced, it's gonna suck. For the US students out there, remember summer reading? For the most part good books, but if you got them on your summer reading list, they were the most painful waste time, and you read the same sentence about five times on page 532 because you fell asleep every time you got to the end of it. That's why I hate Charles Dickens. But both parties go along as if nothing about the system were broken and so nothing gets changed. How about actually giving the faculty control of their own curriculum instead of policing it? I thought that was the whole point of academics (or at least on the teaching side of it) at the college level. They say this is one of the top European business schools, and one of the top two in the German-speaking areas. This leads to the fact that the university is very poor at marketing itself towards its own students -- the administration doesn't seem to give a rat's ass what the students think, but the students go on as if that kind of stuff is normal. They should do an exchange at a smaller liberal arts university in America, and they'd see what they're missing. In short, you really can't compare University of St. Gallen to any American university, big or small, East coast or West. It is lacking in so many areas, but doesn't seem to acknowledge ...
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Exams at end of course
Exams throughout the course
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anonymous
Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden
Financial Management, Graduate, University Agreement
Expenses
Main source of funding:
Government assistance
Other sources of funding:
Personal savings<br> Government assistance
Work opportunities:
I worked during my study abroad experience
Personal spending habits
Switzerland is slightly more expensive than the costs of living in Sweden. Furthermore the costs increase naturally during a shorter stay abroad than at home due to the eagerness to visit and activate yourself.
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Food, Travel, Overall:
was more expensive than at home.
Telephone, Housing, Nightlife:
was the same price as at home.
Accessibility of student needs
Second-hand text books
Second-hand household items
Computers / Internet
Administrative
Money from home
Personal comments
Try to get hold of second-hand books. Arrange your Swiss bank account directly upon arrival. Buy the Gleis7-travel pass for the public transports. Buy a bike - second hand
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Solid education in Management, Business Administration, Economics
Julian R
Switzerland, Graduate
Management Science, 2019
Overall
Vivid campus with students from Switzerland and from abroad
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Pros
Reputation of management education is good
Cons
none
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Sholpan B
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Vienna, Austria
Banking, Graduate, Erasmus
Overall
I wish I had known...
The academic reports of other students.
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In my opinion:
Everybody loved it, you will too!
Important factors in my choice
(1) Unimportant – (4) Very important
Academic reasons
4
Culture
3
Costs
2
Activities
2
Campus life
2
Party / people
2
Weather / location
2
Personal recommendation
Great opportunity to meet other eager students. Wide range of interesting courses.
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During my experience abroad, I ...
(1) Never – (4) A lot
Became familiar with another culture
3
Traveled
3
Improved language skills
2
Met people from other countries
4
Became more independent
2
Partied a lot
3
Experienced a change in life
4
Advanced my studies & career
4
Final comments
A good mixture of academic experience and fun activities!
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Doris L
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Vienna, Austria
Accountancy, Undergraduate, Erasmus
Overall
I wish I had known...
no, i received enough information through my home university and the guest university
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In my opinion:
Everybody loved it, you will too!
Important factors in my choice
(1) Unimportant – (4) Very important
Academic reasons
4
Culture
2
Costs
2
Activities
2
Campus life
2
Party / people
2
Weather / location
3
Personal recommendation
don't take too much courses. most of them are difficult and studying is not the most important thing during an exchange semester
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During my experience abroad, I ...
(1) Never – (4) A lot
Became familiar with another culture
2
Traveled
3
Improved language skills
3
Met people from other countries
4
Became more independent
4
Partied a lot
4
Experienced a change in life
3
Advanced my studies & career
3
Final comments
although our kitchen was never clean, it was quite fun to live together with so many party people
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