University of Southampton

The accomodation fees were a bit expensive (£ 200/month for a 9 m2 bedroom) but the atmosphere was fantastic. The majority of my hall of residence's students was international : there were students from Spain, England, Italy, Greece, France, Germany, Turkey, India... I met lots of different people, from different cultures, but also from different educational backgrounds. I am a scientist ( I have an aerospace engineering diploma), even if I am doing a further degree in High Technology / Industrial Marketing at HEC (Paris), and it was really interesting for me to talk and meet law students, litterature or drama students. I learnt a lot there, by living alone (I mean without my home friends and family) in a foreign country, in terms of ways of thinking and mentalities which are differents for each culture, but also in terms of socialization by living a whole year with the same people in the same "big house".

I lived with two girls from the U.S. and a british guy...my flatmates were really nice and the house was comfortable, but it was too far from the city center and university..anyway, some of my friends were living in the same area so I had no problems at all.

Take care, the university was supposed to arrange something for me, but I received a mail, in July, saying that I finally had to search for something on my own!

Exchange students coming in winter semester do not have the possibility to live in a hall. The university could do more to help students finding private accomodation.

It was pretty hard to find an accomodation and university of Southampton didn't really help us to find an accomodation.

the halls are expensive but for english standards ok, students are very messy, cleaners should come more often