Student review [#8525] for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
at Democritus University of Thrace

As this is my fourth year in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department, I can say that I have a fairly good experience with our university so far. Starting off, the initial curriculum is pretty solid, even though there are some courses that are not that useful in my opinion. Unfortunately, we do not have a good balance regarding professors and departmental courses (because it is not easy due to the extensive bureaucracy and the location of our Uni, as it is in the northeastern part of Greece) and that results in professors teaching courses that are not very relevant to their field of expertise. So, if you want to dig deeper into a topic, take the initiative yourself, it is the best way! Regarding professors, we have a nice mix of good, ok and not good ones, but that is to be expected in most universities. The best feature here is that because the faculty is relatively small, you can approach professors personally and most of them are open to that and don’t have any problem. Last but not least, student life here is ok, it is a totally subjective judgement though. You don’t have many options here in Xanthi (the whole polytechnic is in Xanthi), but there are some nice ones, most of them are not that expensive, and there are other cities that are close, and bus/train is really cheap.