University of Geneva - UNIGE Speciality : Psychology
programme: Psychology

My adventure at UNIGE has begun in 2019, with a surprising beginning of academic career in chemistry. Having discovered I wasn’t set for this field, the University allowed me, as it does to all students, to switch paths smoothly to begin a Bachelor’s degree in psychology. Since then, I have completed it and begun a Master’s degree. University of Geneva is a great public university that is usually accommodating, but lacks engagement in student needs and remains quite superficial. The buildings are great, though some are getting a bit old, but there is no campus to properly speaking, which makes up for a quite deceiving student experience. The study plan in my field is comprehensive, but it’s too much academically oriented, even though the majority of students plan to work in the field. Finally, it would have been great to have a major-minor system, in order to be able to broaden our horizons to other fields.

The university of Geneva is in the center of Geneva, not far from local attractions, the Leman Lake and the mountains. I like the facts that it’s international, a lot of students come from all around the world, especially to study economics (bilingual program – French/English) and international relations, to work at the UN, WHO, WTO, etc.
Switzerland being a calm country, there is not a crazy amount of parties held by the University. If you’re part of international students groups (Erasmus), there is a good chance that you will have somewhere to go out everyday.
The quality of the education is very high, and the teachers come from everywhere around the world. The UNIGE is very inexpensive as well : 500 Swiss francs/semester, so a total of 1000chf per year.

A little extra this year : 2 Nobel Prizes out of 3 at Geneva University! This should impact the global ranking of the university in the Shanghai ranking.