Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN)

I am studying law at this university and it has been one of the biggest mistakes of my life. I am not someone who is academically challenged but being at this university has made me realise just what it means to have an entirely negative university experience. There is not one upside. To the ridiculous lack of housing, to the mean teachers and lecturers, awful schedules, exams that end at 21:15 in the night in the middle of winter, 70-80% fail rates, retaking and retaking and retaking exams, only to fail them, and no one to care, and for you to have to resit them again and again and again, extending your study for just one course. The lack of transparency with students. They do whatever they want and they think they can get away with it because no one ever checks them. Ask any International and European Law student in the university and they will tell you the same thing. A lot of the teachers' level of English is simply not up to scratch, and this leads to some very confusing exam questions with bad grammar. Many of the courses you take seem like filler, with no real correlation to International OR European Law. No breaks, ever. No extra credit. Just 7 weeks and then an exam, for 100%. Research is not focused on until the end of your second year when you're a couple of months away from writing a thesis, and even then they chuck you into the deep end. They do not care, not one bit, and it's appalling. And the worst part is they're either oblivious or have extreme apathy towards student grievances, and frankly I don't know which one is worse. It's so sad to see my path come to this. This was my dream school.