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3.93 / 5 based on 214 reviews
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Joanna L
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Course recommendations
The Scandinavian Studies program is a great way to take courses in English and to meet other international students. If you want to meet Finnish students and see how the Finnish university system really works, try to take classes in the larger university as well.
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Personal comments
Sometimes, the professors went a little overboard with the papers, but the subjects were fair for the most part, and the papers doable.
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Autumn
Academic
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It is somewhat difficult to arrange to take courses in English outside of the International program courses, but keep trying if you really want to take them.
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There are very few tests or exams for the international-student courses. There is usually a 2-5 page paper for each course, but they are nothing big. Very little work--I loved it!
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Main source of funding:
Family
Other sources of funding:
none
Work opportunities:
I didn't explore any work options
Personal spending habits
Finland is expensive, relative to America. I spent more on travel simply because I never travel at home, and it is very easy to get around in Europe.
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Telephone, Food, Overall, Travel:
was more expensive than at home.
Nightlife, Housing:
was the same price as at home.
Accessibility of student needs
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Personal comments
Each student in the ISEP program was given a 2200mk stipend every month for food. That is much more than enough, so most students saved the money and used it to buy other
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Florent C
Housing
Type of housing: A room exchange
Arranged by: Host university
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Why?
Personal comments
Try to get a housing next to university, there are saunas. And there are mainly exchange students : the best way to do parties and to make friends.
You can also get a really fast internet conexion for 25€ a year. This is great to stay in contact with your relatives.
They also provide you all the necessary to cook.
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Katja K
Academic
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to try more in getting students really interested in what is taught. The courses itself are interesting, but the teaching style made your interest and excitement vanish; field excursions were really great!!!
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frontal teaching is not always encouraging after several courses, monotone talking style
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alexh
Academic
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There are a lot of courses at low/middle level, but a lack of advanced ones.
If you've already studied 3 or 4 years, you could have difficulties to find convenient courses.
Otherwise, everything is ok.
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No. It's great because you can take the exam as much as you want and keep the best result !
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