University of Bergen
speciality: Politics

I experienced 5 glorious years at UiB, University of Bergen, in Norway, some of the best of my life. In 2002 I was able to transfer my degree from PUC – Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil, to UiB. In Brasil, as a Social Sciences student, I was eager to research and understand more about the Nordic Welfare States. UiB welcomed my as a guest student and I was able to continue my studies as a regular student in the forecoming years, conquering both my Bachelor and Master Degrees. The campus is outstanding, the programe solid and serious, teachers where top notch and the whole experience transformed my life. I highly recomend UiB and life in Norway to anyone seeking to educate themselves.

Besides being deeply dissatisfied with the programme I enrolled in for personal reasons, the University itself is worthy of criticism.
1) They largely use an outdated video streaming software for their lectures, that doesn’t allow the students to contact the teachers. This software would occasionally not have sound and there would be nothing to fix it as the lecturers would be busy.
2) When they finally converted to zoom, it made the majority miss the streaming platform, as at least it saved the lectures for us to review again.
3) They do not use Canvas, like every other University. Instead, they use the free version, which does not permit access to the canvas app. For a while, they had their own, which was absolutely useless. ut after that they just told us to “Check the webpage daily”.
4) Some of the lecturers are outright rude, dismissing students’ concerned questions and outright rolling their eyes when asked something “stupid” and “obvious”.