Lund University (reviews)

There aren’t many vibrant club activities here, and many of the professors in my Asian Studies department don’t actively engage with you; you practically don’t know each other after class. If you’re really looking for intensive academic training and personal connections, I don’t think this school is for you. There aren’t many vibrant club activities here, and many of the professors in my Asian Studies department don’t actively engage with you; you practically don’t know each other after class. If you’re really looking for intensive academic training and personal connections, I don’t think this school is for you. Furthermore, the potential job opportunities it offers make some positions seem practically meaningless.

Sometimes challeging and hard work, sometimes it was easy with studies and lectures. I think it was the best experience in my life. Meeting a new people from over the whole world. Professors were also nice and friendly.

I liked the structure of the program. Also, the department is very medium-sized, and the staff has very strong professional relationships with one another. You feel like you’re part of a community.
Initially, I found the Swedish education system challenging to get used to. Unlike my previous experiences, we have fewer classes and are expected to do much reading independently. Additionally, we take one class at a time. However, by the end of the semester, I began to enjoy this approach.

The university is beautiful, there is no doubt about that. Although it is one of the most multicultural campuses in the world, the course I took was not inclusive for foreign students. The course was advertised as a course designed specifically for foreigners, with classes in English. In practice, many of the classes on the syllabus were actually in Swedish, and the ones that were in English gave exercises or texts in Swedish. I even had a disagreement with one of the professors who, although he was teaching a class that was supposed to be entirely in English, brought slides in Swedish and spoke exclusively in Swedish. When I asked during the break if the class shouldn’t be in English, he ridiculed me in front of the class and said that if I was uncomfortable, I should have said so beforehand. The universitys advisors were very understanding, but in the end, I had to give up many of the assigned subjects and replace them with subjects that had nothing to do with my field, just because they were, in fact, taught in English.