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Do not choose FU BEST

Program
European Studies Program at Freie Universität Berlin
By Max Goodman on 05/09/2019
Ratings
Overall
2
Academics: 2
Support: 3
Fun: 4
Housing: 3
Safety: 5
Review

I like Berlin as a city but the FU BEST program made it very difficult to have a meaningful experience. I feel robbed of an incredible opportunity because the program is run so poorly. The (mostly) poorly taught courses require about 30-50 pages of reading per a week EACH, the campus isolates you from any German students, and all of the housing is very far from anywhere you would want to be. While I still enjoyed my time here overall, it was in spite of all the obstacles that the program created. Thank god there were cool people to hang out with or this program would have been a complete waste. I had been looking forward to my semester abroad for years, and I am very upset I chose to have this once in a lifetime experience with such a bad program.

Would you recommend this program?
No, I would not
Year Completed
2019
Private Note to Provider (optional)
I really hope this program actually listen to the criticisms of the students. Nearly everyone I have talked to has had a similarly disappointing experience with this program. As one of the first people from my home university to come to FU BEST, I will make sure my study abroad advisor knows never to recommend this program to anyone else until the program makes significant changes.