University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (UNC)

The exchange rate made living expenses greater in the States. I also lived at home in Australia and therefore had less expenses. However, I believe with careful budgeting it could have worked out around the same as in Australia.

Actually, no!

The academic life is excellent. Lots of discussions during classes. It's a great place to meet other international students. The American students are very nice and helpful.

While living on campus was an excellent way to interact with new people and make friends, it could be a little restricting at times sharing a room with a stranger. That said, I would probably do it again because it allowed me to get invloved in many more campus activities.

Not really, it all came to me pretty quick.

I do recommend it, I think it is great in some courses of study, like journalism, but in every case one should check out the school or deparment to go into before chosing.

Most central to all university facilities. Also, living on campus works very stimulating academically.

I chose to go to Chapel Hill because of its great academic standing. I wanted a real challenge and thus made sure I picked courses that really interested me and were high level and reading-intensive. I took two graduate and two undergraduate courses. I'd really given myself that challenge I was looking for and had to work harder than ever before! It was wonderful, though. Both the faculty and the course material were inspiring.

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