Reviews of Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR) | Canada

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Cedric M

Ecole Française d'Électronique et d'Informatique, Paris, France
Engineering, Electronic, Graduate, University Agreement

Expenses

Main source of funding:

Family

Other sources of funding:

none

Work opportunities:

It was not legal for me to work

Personal spending habits

I spend some money on expensive food to remember my home country.

Food, Telephone:

was more expensive than at home.

Overall, Housing, Travel:

was the same price as at home.

Nightlife:

was less expensive than at home.

Accessibility of student needs

Second-hand text books

Second-hand household items

Computers / Internet

Administrative

Money from home

Personal comments

The price of the room was extremely low 200 canadian dollars by month, but we were 4 in the appartment. 80sq meter one 5minutes from the university by foot

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Cedric M

Ecole Française d'Électronique et d'Informatique, Paris, France
Engineering, Electronic, Graduate, University Agreement

Languages

Language of instruction: French

Was learning French a key decision factor?

No, it wasn't.

Language difficulties

Social

Educational

Administrative / Institutional

Overall

Personal comments

Even with the same language it's still difficult to be understand in Quebec for a french because ther is a lot a expression wich are different depending of the country

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Cedric M

Ecole Française d'Électronique et d'Informatique, Paris, France
Engineering, Electronic, Graduate, University Agreement

Overall

I wish I had known...

Had Fun !!

In my opinion:

Everybody loved it, you will too!

Important factors in my choice
(1) Unimportant – (4) Very important

Academic reasons

2

Culture

4

Costs

1

Activities

2

Campus life

3

Party / people

3

Weather / location

3

Personal recommendation

Choose well your courses

During my experience abroad, I ...
(1) Never – (4) A lot

Became familiar with another culture

4

Traveled

3

Improved language skills

3

Met people from other countries

4

Became more independent

3

Partied a lot

3

Experienced a change in life

4

Advanced my studies & career

3

Final comments

be aware that when you need to travel the distances are huge, and a car is needed to go anywhere. By exemple, you need to go to Montreal or Quebec, it's 150km so 2 hours by car. The speed limitation is 100Km/h on Highways.

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