Université de Franche-Comté (UFC)

Bar de l'U does an excellent Erasmus night on a Tues, fantastic for meeting other international and french students. In the summer swimming in the river up at the Loue is a must.

if you are into the bar scene go to gibus, kilarnies, and madighans. if youre into dancing theres mambo bar, pophall, and bannik. hit up big ban late for good sandwiches

The hot spots where students frequent are Pub d'etoile, and pretty much any bars found on la Grande Rue et Rue des Granges. BUT for real culture, try out la Cremerie (often live music in the centre ville) or le Marulaz (in the Battant quarter with lots of live music, hippies, reggae, jazz, culture man!) Also the best concerts are found in the "caves" in bars. Take time to stop and look at the flyers. Often they are inexpensive and unknown but the time of your life. Go to the xmas market in Granvelle and try the vin chaud. Also, try to walk up to the Fort de Bregille. it's a long walk, but if ou take bus #27 to Rue des Fontenottes, it's only about 1/2 hour. Go to the Citadelle, too.

Don't ever miss a trip to the citadel.

In Besancon there were enough places to go!Cafes, bar-dancings, discotheques. Besancon was a very pittoresque city, with a river and a lot of beautiful nature.

PUB DE L'ETOILE AND MADIGANS IRISH PUB. BOITE DE SANDWICH GOOD FOR LUNCH TIME SNACKS.