University of Tsukuba

The only reason I studied abroad, academically speaking, was to polish up my language. Therefore Japanese language is the only coursed I took. The setup is pretty straight foreward. You take a placement exam and are put into your corresponding level class. If you are uncomfortable with the class you are in you can request to be put up or down a level.

I liked the books we used for the first level class. The final two trimesters though we went to a different book. I can honestly say they were the worst text book ive ever used. Myself and every student in the class agree. They were extremely difficult to follow. The layout required constant flipping back and forth of pages. Uses of different fonts, bolds or italics were not used, making it difficult to distinguish one thing from another

From what I hear technical studies are OK, but anything related to Humanities or Social Sciences tends to have a so-so level. Anything you want to learn you'll have to do it mostly by yourself, specially if your Japanese is not fluent.

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Everything was well organized,

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