Università di Bologna - UNIBO Speciality : Biological Sciences
programme: Cosmetic Science

Universita of Bologna in Rimini I woulds say is a good public university that does offer a lot of benefits to international students, although I still think that they should find other way to verify the requirements for scholarships since it does involve spending a good amount of money. I would say the city is a little bit lacking in student life and activities on the winter and there are limited incentives or discounts for students to engage in leisure activities or traveling, I see some improvement know in spring, let see how it is in summer. Know for the program (Advanced Cosmetic Science) I feel is one of the hardest masters the uni has in this city, and some classes I feel could really be a seminar and some are not really relevant unless you will dedicate to research, and none of the teachers has any expertise on the field of cosmetics in any way, they all do research and cannot help you with connections with the industry because no one has been part of it. Also, we are one of the few masters that has oral examinations for most classes, which I think is ridiculous for a STEM program. But the teachers are mostly good and do have knowledge in the area, but yeah maybe is because it is relatively knew it still has a long way to go. I still don’t regret coming because it is fairly cheap compared to the same program in other countries and the labs are pretty cool.

The course that i selected is advanced cosmetic sciences and overall its a well suited program with a lot of laboratory activities and courses. There are a certain problems with university administration such as no proper help desk for help with finding accommodation but apart from that overall experience is smooth. Class strength is on the higher side which can cause a problem sometime but then again it depends upon the student’s nature as well.
I’d recommend this program to other people as well.