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4.03 / 5 based on 96 reviews
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Diego F
Student life
Describe host city:
Students equally interact with the local and student community
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Travel, Activities, Nightlife: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment
Personal social experience
Personal comments
Amatøren, Garage, a place downtown I don't remember the name of... but it was very nice! But most of the student nightlife occurs in the student village, since it's quite expensive to go out. You just have to get used to it, and once you are, it's not bad at all!
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Diego F
Housing
Type of housing: Apartment/House
Arranged by: Host university
If returning, I would choose: Apartment/House
Why?
You have no real landlord, and don't think that living downtown is much better..
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Personal comments
The accomodation was simply great. everything you need is in the student village, from supermarket to nature, pubs, and during the coldest months it may not be worth the effort to pay loads of money to go downtown and get your bottom freezed...
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Diego F
Overall
I wish I had known...
That is not completely impossible to get a nice job, if you talk to the right people... (I worked at McDonald's and in an Italian restaurant)
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In my opinion:
I loved it but I'm not sure everybody would.
Important factors in my choice
(1) Unimportant – (4) Very important
Personal recommendation
Learn the language, be open-minded, choose your courses carefully (you can drop them afterwards but you can't start new ones!)
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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
Living there with not too much money will teach you how to survive in non-ordinary conditions. You'll experience that you can have a lot of fun even if you don't move a lot from home, and that you can eat decent food spending less than you thought. Travelling may be very expensive (especially because if you buy a bike - it can be very cheap, like 50€ - you won't be able to use it from november to april...), but if you wanna travel across Norway and Scandinavia, use some bus companies like www.lavprisekspressen.no or www.swebus.com, you'll be shocked at seeing how cheap they can be. The websites are in Norwegian/Swedish only, so remember what I said about the local language...!
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Diego F
Academic
Course recommendations
Choose the courses according to the assessment method, there's a broad choice: if you choose the home exam option, it may take two weeks to pass an exam instead of 6 months... but of course it depends on the subject. Take Norwegian language courses and give your best; it may seem unnecessary, but if you wanna spend a whole semester or year together with non-locals only... ya know what I mean?
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My academic experiences
Interaction with teachers
Interaction with international students
Interaction with local students
Personal comments
Learn Norwegian, it may seem difficult but it's not, especially if you attend classes and live together with the people. If you don't, you'll certainly regret it, believe me!
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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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Diego F
Languages
Language of instruction: Norwegian
Was learning Norwegian a key decision factor?
Yes, I wanted to improve my Norwegian
How much did you improve your Norwegian?
My level before: Basic phrases
My level after: At ease in most situations
Language difficulties
Administrative / Institutional
Personal comments
I must say that most of the international students take courses in English only. I took courses in 3 languages, namely English, Norwegian and German. This means that you can choose among a much wider range of courses. Ask someone about the teachers, if you speak the language ask someone about the teachers, cuz there may be written "taught in Norwegian" on the website but then you find a teacher speaking an impossibile dialect from southern Sweden, which the local understand, but it may sound obscure to you...
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Diego F
Expenses
Main source of funding:
Personal savings
Other sources of funding:
An ERASMUS grant
Work opportunities:
I worked during my study abroad experience
Personal spending habits
Food is the most important issue. Almost everything is imported, so it's very expensive, and what is not imported (potatoes and little more) is produced at the very high Norwegian wages, so it costs quite much all the same. Housing was less expensive than in my city, because there's a lot of space for students in Oslo. Nightlife was the same as at home (so pretty high!) but you have to consider that getting to the place is very expensive, since public transport costs a lot (about 60€/month for a monthly prepaid ticket, 90€ for non-students; single fare: about 2,60€).
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Travel, Overall, Food:
was more expensive than at home.
Nightlife:
was the same price as at home.
Telephone, Housing:
was less expensive than at home.
Accessibility of student needs
Second-hand household items
Personal comments
Go to the immigrants' market, open every day in Grønland (near the bus terminal), it's VERY cheap!
Books and photocopies are VERY expensive, try to loan them in the library and copy only what you really need.
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