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Studying “Abroad”? About Being a German Psychology Student in Vienna
It’s become a cliché: if your Numerus Clausus (your grade from the last years of High School) doesn’t fit, you simply cannot get into a German university to study psychology. So, what are your options? Well, either you find something else or you’ll have to go somewhere else. And many of us who prefer the latter option choose Austria. I mean, how could we not? There is this small country right next to ours, in which they speak the same language and where they have no college tuition fees. Plus, they have this wonderful policy that your high school grades do not count. You’ll just have to take a test…
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Université de Bordeaux 2016
Application Process When I started my studies I was already sure that I wanted to do an exchange semester. So, I have started already 1.5 years before my exchange with gathering information about different possibilities. Since I wanted to enhance my French language skills and am interested in France, the decision was made quite quickly. My university had an ERASMUS agreement with the university in Bordeaux and after I handed in all the papers and my explication, I had to wait. But then finally in February 2016 I received an e-mail telling me that I was chosen to go there. Preparation In order to prepare myself, I started reading French…