Here everyone is very accessible and helpful

Large areas of lawn and clearings nesting birds, several small lakes and a river that meanders and allows to come to the ferry from downtown: it is a framework whose dream all student offers St Lucia, the largest campus before the University of Queensland (UQ) in Brisbane, Australia. Add more sports fields in profusion (you can practise golf, athletics, rowing, tennis...) and ideal, sunny and mild climate most of the year. Students also often work outdoors, on lawns or on the tables, all equipped with outlets for computers.

UQ campus, it is also a "different", casual and studious atmosphere at a time. Come in bermuda and t-shirt, called teachers by their first name, it invites them to have a drink... "At any time, may request an explanation or a Board indicates Valérie Personnaz, a young engineer from France for a half - chemist and eventually extend his stay." Here, everyone is very accessible and helpful. "In the evening, students can be found in Brisbane, ten minutes from the campus. A city with size, very pleasant to live in, who knows a few years one of the highest population growth of the country. As the famous beaches where you can find the surfers, they are less than one hour by car this enchanting life is not the only highlight of UQ. Because the University of Queensland also offers a very high level education, in a number of disciplines.

Very international environment

Versatile, she is particularly recognized internationally for its management programmes, medicine, engineering, computer science, letters and human sciences... It is also in advanced medical research (particularly cancer), for the law of the environment, and even literature. And it multiplies the contracts with manufacturers. His "business school" has thus created a structure of research, harvesting some 75 million dollars a year. Is UQ part of the "group of eight" - in other words, the eight universities of Australia, conducting 70 of University research. "Here, I have brillantissimes teachers, among the best of my tuition, and other less good, as everywhere." "Well he must choose," notes Joanna Marchand, a graduate of Sciences po, just complete a master's degree in "international business" at UQ. Courses take place usually in small groups - less than 100 students - more often. They are taught by teachers from around the world, including the United States, India and throughout Asia. "It is a very international environment," notes Valerie Personnaz. Especially for master or post-graduate programs. "Because these conditions of study attract a growing number of foreign students: there are about 7,000 on roughly 38,000 registered in total. And, among them, more and more French. UQ also offers two receipts in February and July.

Spirit of competition is not, step of classification. This does not, on the contrary, the students to work hard. Of course, studies pay and rather expensive - count between 10,000 and 12,000 euros per year for tuition. But most of the students have a small job at hand, in relation to their curriculum, and to assist in completing their purposes of months. In contrast, the cost of living is low and map student gives right for many reductions.