Avis sur Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán (UADY)

I reccomend the UADY; it has its problems but all-in-all Merida is a fun place to live for a semester or year.

I would recommend better administrative organization.

They are very friendly and it is a great place to study if you get involved. THey are quite relaxed though and don't expect them to chase you up about assignments/projects it is up to you to discipline yourself.

It depends which faculty you are in- I was in Economics, and the only foreigner, so i had a total immersion. The majority of foreign students go to Anthropology, where they make up about 20 percent of the faculty, and they have little interaction with Mexican students. I would suggest going to any faculty other than Anthropology if you want immersion. The quality of the courses is not very good; i did about the same amount of work at the UADY as I did in middle school.