Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)

Be aware that most classes (90%) are in Catalan, not in Castellano (Spanish). You can ask the professor to switch, but quite a few refuse, and even if they accept, chances are good that books, lab guides, and exam sheets will still be in Catalan. Good courses are Optimització i Simulació, Termodinàmica, Metrología y Verificación, and Grafs i Decisió. Do not bother to go to Tecnología de Materiales, or Teoria de Màquines.

Some teachers view international students as a source of annoyance (for their preference for Castellano). A little more good will wouldn't do harm there.

no, totally depends on your taste, some teachers dont like erasmusstudents though, some groups there are alot of foreign students, other none...

pump more money into it, better facilities would be nice, i heard it is one of the poorest faculties of the upc, but i heard too that alot of money just disappears here in the south of europe...

Choose courses in spanish at the beggining of the year... next semester youll be better at Catalan and will be able to understand them

Choose courses after 12 in the morning when hangover after a chupitos session is over! Youll hate to miss parties because of courses in the morning!

THESE COURSES PRESENT A BIG KIND OF CHOICE, ALSO STUDENTS HAVE PLENTY OF TIME TO INTERACT WITH OTHER STUDENTS, ACCORDING WITH COSTS AND TUITION FEES THESE COURSES HAVE GREAT DEMAND FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS BECAUSE IT HAS GOOD QUALITY AND KONWLEGDE AROUNDTHE WORLD.

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at least in my case there wasn´t any guiding or assistance in the beginning, so I had to find it out all by myself. They could provide a bit more information to help the exchange students to get started

They could improve the assistance of visitors.

No hesitate to ask for some extra informations to the other students or to the teacher

When you are an erasmus student, you dont have special laws in comparaisons to the local students, so you need to preapare yourself more than the others.