Universidad de Chile - UCHILE Speciality : Engineering
programme: School of Engineering/Technology

The university has a high level of demand from the students, specially in the physics careers, where some of the classes meant for undergraduates are in other countries part of the masters courses. There are a lot of campus activities, clubs and presentations, however the time demand for the classes is very high and personally I wasn’t ever able to take much advantage of it. I took classes from physics and computer science, and the difference was astounding. The classes in the physics courses were very rigid and the environment with the other students wans’t very welcoming, while in the other hand, the computer science was completely different, much more friendly, people cooperating a lot, and the professors very attentive to the questions and problems the students had.

What I like most about this university is that its rigorous standards force you to truly think: to analyze problems thoroughly, seek out real data, and defend your ideas with solid arguments. This level of rigor prepares you to stand out, not just be one of the crowd, and to propose solutions that actually work.