University of Essex

I loved my experience and would recommend going to Essex!

There are a lot of International students about, so preferred spoken language was English. I was asked to attend a test at the beginning of the year, just for the assesment and afterwards given a choice of courses I could attens such as Academic Writing Skills, Vocabulary, Listening skills etc. If I wouldn't have been quite secure in my language ability, I'm sure I would've gone to some of those and would've found them helpful.

The experience is satisfactory. The community of international student is very large and, particularly, for postgraduate studies students are almost all international, while English people are more present in the undergraduate studies. As being a postgraduate student, I have less contacts with English students and this makes the communication also easier because you deal less with native speakers, slangs and dialects.

On campus entertainment is great, there are a number of pubs inside campus, the SU pub, and Mondo, Level 2, plus another small chillout pub up some stairs... plus Mondo and Level 2 become some sort of clubs after 9:00, until 2:00 am, and there is a larger venue like a club which is the Underground, great as well, plus in Colchester there are a number of clubs and pubs and places to go, too much party going on there.

Towers r cheap, in both sense, but u get to meet a lot of other students.

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