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I found the approach of this university deeply theoretical, sometimes is needed, however in some other cases it’s preferable to give to the students a shorter program to study and add more practical assignments in order to get a stronger knowledge.
View moreI would recommend to study in the University of Padua. Full of history, possibilities and exchange of knowledges, various courses and infinite opportunities, for sure it’s one of the best place to study.
bad aspect? stress and sometimes lack of organization
I could rant about the University and, in particular, the politics department all day long. I’ll keep it brief, though. For context, I am an international master’s student studying European and Global Studies which is a course run by the Department of Political Science. This department is massively dysfunctional and could not organise a p***-up in a brewery. While this may sound like something that, as a master’s student living abroad in Italy, could be ignored for the benefits of living in Italy generally, it is completely soul-sucking. No one on my course has enjoyed themselves.
Some examples of the poor quality of education: exams are often taken orally in front of the rest of the course, meaning that answers can often be gleaned from classmates beforehand; marks are 90% of the time given arbitrarily with no feedback. Same quality of answer from two students will often not have same result – either bc favouritism or something more nefarious. I have also never had a well-organised exam i.e. on time or with enough space in the room for the students. late exams have ranged from 30 mins to about 3 hours. Maybe this is normal for Italy or specific to the department, I don’t know, but it is such a waste of time and shows how little they value the student.
The quality of the teaching is also disappointing. It is generally slow and read from the slide. Moreover, I am on an English-language course and I can safely say only about 50% of the professors have had an above B2 level of English. One of them had to read from a prepared script to even teach the lesson. Native speakers such as myself are at a massive advantage too – it often feels during the oral exams that merely speaking at the teachers fluently and quickly is enough to score high grades. I’m not joking, I scored a 30 cum laurea by just speaking quickly.
Finally, the way they ask for theses to be written here makes 0 sense. They ask for a 50,000-word piece, which is a stupidly massive article. The professors are at least open about the fact they will never read these, which is incredibly demoralising and makes your work feel worthless. This is a common theme with much smaller 3,000-word essays too. How on Earth can they expect to mark these if they will never read them? From a small 10-minute presentation on graduation day, apparently. Again, their grading feels so baseless and arbitrary .
There’s loads of other examples I could use too. They need to sort themselves out.
View morethis year I decided to start studying again and enroll in university. I’m doing it while I work: the university gives me the opportunity to graduate by working giving us double the time, so I will attend 6 years and not 3. In this way I can take half of the exams a year compared to my classmates
View moreI chose this faculty by chance because I didn’t switch to motor sciences. The course has few students because it is the regulation, this means that it seems to be like in high school, with a small class where everyone knows each other. Furthermore, for this reason the exams are agreed between the professor and the students and there is a lot of support
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