INSA Lyon

The organisation of courses is very different from my home university I would have liked to know more about this befor leaving.

Take information about the courses you are going to take long before leaving.

Not realy.

Very good Campus-life, teachers and preety nice city.

Ok, if you are in a department that doesn't involve memorizing text please don't go there! Try to take liberal art classes, you'll help yourself a great deal. Professors are bad teachers as far as I know in the Civil engineering department. Complaints have come from Computer science, Mechanical engineering. They are more interested in their research. There are no office hours (ei, French student goes to professor's office to ask an exam question. His comment as she walks in the door: "What are you doing here? I don't have time for you. Get out". Please tell me who says that!!! Plenty of other examples come to mind but they wont fit here. They are condescending towards international students. If you can take spanish, french, sport, sociology don't do any science if your grades have to transfer. You'll regret it all of your life!

Academic life is a competition. No one helps each other unless they are in the same group which they will be for 3 years of their lives. Groups dont interact. Improvements? It's France! You can't tell them what to do. They see it as americanizing them. If they works for them let them be and see how they grow on the international market. My suggestion though would be to give a recycling modern 21st century course to their professors. God they need it! If academia was the only thing I experienced there, I WOULD NEVER SET MY FOOD THERE AGAIN and keep in mind that I passed all of my classes and some with high grades.

Because it will give me more independence and the chance of sharing the apartment with native people. Besides it can help to get integrated in the country lifestyle.