University College Cork (UCC)

People from UCC are awesome. they will help you as mush as you need. Very very kind people.

Ireland is expensive and so the housing to was expensive, but the house was fine.

It is ok, very near to university, saves time

My comments refer to the second house I moved in. I spent the first 3 months in another place which was worse than the second one, in terms of costs, location and room. My second accomodatio was far better. It was just 3 minutes walk from University, the landlord was polite and helpful, my housemates - 2 Irish and one German PHD students - were the nicest girls I could have ever shared the house with. My room was quite roomy, it had a mansard roof and a wooden floor (there was no carpet). Forniture was all new, and the room walls had been just painted before my arrival. as far as the rent is concerned, the price was quite competitive (325 Euro per month, plus electricity and gas bills).

I was lucky to find some nice housemates and we rented a quite big perfectly equipped house, located in Sunday's Well and with a wonderful view to the River Lee. The distance to UCC was - in the eyes of our Irish fellows - quite big: 15 min walk to the Main Quadrangle.

The housing system of UCC is the same with that of German universities in that there are a lot of hostels that are located very close to the university's main building, however, I would not call that an on campus system given the fact that they are not located at the same place. These hostels, unlike in Germany, are run by different institutions. But most of them are controled by UCC accommodation office, for more information go to this link: http://www.ucc.ie/en/CurrentStudents/StudentServices/AccommodationServices/.