🏠 Housing
What kind of place was it?
Coliving / Shared House
How much was the rent per month?
325
Where was it located?
20 min by bus from city center/uni
How can someone find this place?
university form
Would you recommend it?
The university contacts all exchange students via a form after the uni application is done, and then, they offer an housing room to each exchange student in one of their buildings in Turku dedicated to exchange students of Turku University. Very good experience, I shared an appartement (kitchen and bathroom) with a greek student... great experience to discover new culture and keep contact after the exchange!
🍻 Social Life
What are some top bars, clubs, or events you recommend?
Friendship Programm, managed by the uni: they have a group of Finnish volunteers and a group of exchange students and they make them in peer. It is great to make a new Finnish friend and share events together! Turku is a student city who lives according to the national student events (quite impressive and interesting!!!)
🎓 Uni life at Turku School of Economics
Which classes do you recommend… or not?
- Cross Cultural Business Communication (génial pour découvrir les différences culturelles entre pays, par exemple un dîner d'affaire en Chine se fait autour d'une table ronde alors qu'en France, la table est rectangulaire...) - Geopolitics and Geoeconomy in Northern Europe (à chaque cours, un ambassadeur ou députée européen venait en physique sur le campus pour nous faire cours, c'est génial pour rencontrer des professionnels dans le domaine de la diplomatie!) - Doing Business in Wider Europe (super interesting!)
Do you have some tips?
the campus is huge, well designed, the Finnish teacher are sincerely kind, the Finnish system is a dream (you can do your final exam on the campus the day and the hour you want, even on Sunday at 10pm.......) I would definitely choose this university again to discover the daily life in Finland, the finish system, to have interesting courses and discover such professionals
✈️ Travel
Best trips to do?
I TRAVELLED IN 8 COUNTRIES DURING THIS SEMESTER!!! Turku is incredibly well located to travel!!! as I had long weekend (friday and monday off), I used to travel by myself (Poland, London, Estonia, Aland Island, Sweden) or with the university (Lapland trip, Norway Lofoten Islands trip)... the uni organizes a lot of different trips for the exchange students!!!
🌆 Turku vibe
What do you absolutely need to know to live your best life in Turku?
transport is easy to use (subscription for 5 months is 270euros) nice city both in winter and in summer !!! but take care, in finland, there is no curtains at the windows... which is great when the sun sleeps at 4pm in winter but may be difficult when the sun goes to sleep at 3am in summer.......😅
💡 Other Tips
kindness of Finish people, great to discover the famous finish educational system, millions opportunities to travel (direct flight from Turku airport or trips via boat to Stockholm...), I definitely adored this experience where I met Santa Claus in Rovaniemi and Northern Lights thanks to the uni trips!!!
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