Student review [#14214] for Architecture
at Eindhoven University of Technology - TU/e

It is hard to find a top-rated university that offers the Build environment studies in English that would NOT be in an English speaking country such as GB, US, Australia, and Canada. Those countries have very expensive tuition fees both for internationals and EU citizens. Luckily, TUe offers the architecture bachelor completely in English and the tuition fees are not too high (for eu students). Additionally, the university is highly ranked both in general and field specifically. However, during my studies here I met a lot of troubles when I had to fight for things. For example, my Adobe license was taken in the middle of my degree because “I have a private computer“ and they suddenly stopped supporting those. I also had to fight for my accommodation and only after I exposed them for not following the waiting list was I given one. The teaching style is rather impersonal with lecture halls being full of students and professors not engaging questions and not making sure the taught material is absorbed properly. There are live streams and recordings of the lectures to watch at home but often they don’t work and the person ends up missing a lecture completely.
As for my degree, there are a lot of studios where we need to work on our projects but also in the visualizations and models. Those things require skills with adobe apps and modeling programs as well as materials for model making. However, there is no education about the usage of the programs. (Figure-it-out-yourself style) same goes for models, but there there is a need of buying the materials which also costs money and nobody is reimbursing that.
In my degree the university does give any room for exchange nor do they include an internship in the program. The possibility of Erasmus would be during masters.
The campus is nice, all the buildings are on campus.

As the bottom line, the uni okay for the money, however, there are a lot of things that o would complain about .