I studied in Cluj-Napoca which was the European Capital of Teenagers back in 2015. Obviously, the city is great, no doubt, but the prices are too high when talking about renting an apartment (and even buying something from a shop is way more expensive than another city in Romania) and this is making student life very very odd and hard.
Although these high prices, I think the student life is nice in Cluj, at least at UBB. You have a friendly student dorm, nice people, but there are also bad things in these dorms: most of them have 4-5 students in the same room. Luckily with covid, now are only 2-3 students in a room, but when I was a student, 1 year I stood in a room with other 4.
Talking about the university itself, there are nice teachers wich are willing to help, presenting their courses in an understandable way, the classes are nice, clean rooms, but, there is a big minus: your chances are very low evolving into your field of study and this is happening almost in every university from our country, unfortunately. If you are very very very good, then you have chances of getting a job in your field of study, but if you are a “normal” student, your chances are almost low. Teachers tend to work only with those who are very very very good and who have only 10 after each exam, this is not good. The rest of the students are somehow forgotten.

But in general, the life of a student at UBB is nice, you have access to information, the university has a big library where you can study and so on.

If you ask me, I’d never follow a university program, I’d better go to work from 16-17 years. Here, universities, in general, are not teaching you how to live, how to invest your money, how to go out in the world to face the reality.

Kisses Cristina