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4.21 / 5 based on 499 reviews
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maresteban
CES Luis Vives CEU, Madrid, Sweden
Business Studies, Graduate, Erasmus
Student life
Describe host city:
Students equally interact with the local and student community
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Activities: Takes place mostly within the university/student environment
Nightlife, Travel: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment
Personal social experience
Personal comments
There are three pubs only for the university students. These places have some good and bad aspects. they are nice because you can meet all the students there and you know almost everybody. On the other hand if you only go to these pubs you don´t involve in the town live and you will not meet people from outside the University.
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maresteban
CES Luis Vives CEU, Madrid, Sweden
Business Studies, Graduate, Erasmus
Housing
Type of housing: A room exchange
Arranged by: Host university
If returning, I would choose: A room exchange
Why?
Because I really enjoy my stay there. And I think is the best way because the contact you have with other students, not only with the international srudents but also with the students from the country (swedish in my case). Is with this close relationship that you get with the day a day contact when you can really see the differences between the cultures and the countries and that is really interesting.
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Personal comments
The accommodation where I was, was a room in a corridor with another 12 rooms, half of the students were swedish and the other half international. We share the kitchen and the living room. I like this system where you have contact with other students and I don´t care share the kitchen and the living, I like to live with othe people.
On the other hand I found that the price was really expensive but this is due the fact that Sweden is a more expensive country than Spain.
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maresteban
CES Luis Vives CEU, Madrid, Sweden
Business Studies, Graduate, Erasmus
Languages
Language of instruction: English
Was learning English a key decision factor?
No, it wasn't.
How much did you improve your English?
My level before: At ease in most situations
My level after: No problems in any areas (including slang)
Language difficulties
Administrative / Institutional
Personal comments
At the begining it was hard because I never used it before (just in class), and I have some problems with the acents. But latter it become easier the convertations with other sudents were fluent and i don´t have problems to understand the courses neither to writte the exams.
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maresteban
CES Luis Vives CEU, Madrid, Sweden
Business Studies, Graduate, Erasmus
Expenses
Main source of funding:
Family
Other sources of funding:
Personal savings
Government assistance
An ERASMUS grant
Work opportunities:
I didn't explore any work options
Personal spending habits
I spend more just because everything is more expensive than in Spain. With the phone it was not like that because I just used it in speciall ocations and if I dind´t spend more in the nightlive was because I had to renounce to some expenses.
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Food, Housing, Travel, Overall:
was more expensive than at home.
Nightlife:
was the same price as at home.
Telephone:
was less expensive than at home.
Accessibility of student needs
Second-hand household items
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maresteban
CES Luis Vives CEU, Madrid, Sweden
Business Studies, Graduate, Erasmus
Academic
Course recommendations
In Vaxjo University they have an advantage that is that you can choose the subjects you want. That means that you can choose one subject from one couse and other from othe course and so on you make your own program. On the other hand the courses that are allready selected by the University are very good as well.
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My academic experiences
Interaction with teachers
Interaction with international students
Interaction with local students
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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maresteban
CES Luis Vives CEU, Madrid, Sweden
Business Studies, Graduate, Erasmus
Overall
I wish I had known...
Maybe that Vaxjo is the first city in rain within Sweden.
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In my opinion:
Everybody loved it, you will too!
Important factors in my choice
(1) Unimportant – (4) Very important
Personal recommendation
For the people that will go to study to this University I will say that it is really nice and that the quality of the courses is pretty good. But it is hard also so you must work a lot and you should renounce to some other thing sometimes.
And for the university I will tell them that they help a lot the students but they have to bear in mind that the international students don´t have all the facilities so sometimes they should help them a little bit more, specially with the administrative 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
This is an unique opportunity to travell specially around the country you are and learn about their culture. And of course also to the rest of countries around it.
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