Subject: Universities

How much does a campus room cost/month?

Of course it depends on university.
When I was (2 years ago) it was between 300 and 700 euros/month, depending of what you want.
300 euros for 10 m2 rooms, with facilities and kitchen shared between 15 people
700 euros for 30 m2 studio, facilities and kitchen were not shared.

That's a lot of money for just a student who goes there just to study, not to work, so per year you need between 5-6,000 euro just for accomodation + 3,000 euro food, you need clothes, add there +2,000 euro, books, maybe library taxes, and some extra funds for something unpredictable, that's a lot of money.
How much money did you recive throw scholarship? did it cover all those expenditure above?
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you need clothes, add there +2,000 euro

You can find some clothes even in Paris for example for 10 times less !!!

+ 3,000 euro food

You can eat for 20 € per week --> 20*50 €= 1000 €. (with my family : 4 pers. i spend less than 40 € per week for food !!)

You don't need 3000 euro for food, unless you eat at the restaurant all the time. You can do very well with 120-150 euros/month for food if you know or are willing to learn how to cook. Stef said a smaller sum, but as a student you buy food mostly for 1 person which usually ends up in spending more. If you find someone to share food with (I was lucky, because I was with another 2 students I knew from the fifth grade), It is possible to reduce it to about 100 euros/month for food.

For clothes, again, I would say that is way to much, unless you go there naked or buy only overpriced "latest collection" clothes.

For books, I can say I was lucky because I studied computer science and you can find most (if not all) documentation for free(and yes, legally :) ).

As for the total expenses, my case was a bit special, because I went there as an exchange student. Because of this i did not have to pay the tuition fee, but I also was not allowed to access the "foreign student scholarship" (btw, this was the worst scenario, from a financial point of view).
As an exchange student I received 3000 euros as scholarship. The rent was 4000 something euros. In total I think I spent from my pockets another 3-4000 euros. Never did the math.

If you enroll as normal student you could access the scholarship, which was 5500 euros back then. This would roughly cover the tuition fee (around 1800 euros) and the accomodation. Then you would need to get the rest 2-3000 euros for food, clothes, emergencies and partying.
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I have a friend who went to England to study, and I heard that numbers from him, I was surprise to hear too how much money he spent for food and other things, but from what you say from your experience, it worths to study abroad, from the financial view.


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If you are coming to England to study, and want to save money on food, I have 3 words for you:

Beans on toast

The costs for living are comparable higher in Central Europe. But you can still live with under 200 € per month for food in every country there. If you cut down expenses for going out to drink or eat (Let the girl pay her own tab ;-) joking there). I managed to do that in Germany and abroad during my studies, cooking more often, not drinking much at clubs, not buying the typical expensive groceries every day is the key.

I'm studying at the University of Applied sciences in Wildau, near Berlin, Germany. As Langhe said, it's not about the 'status' of your university. It's about feeling confident with it. My grades were high enough to start studying in f.ex. Leuven or Humboldt, but these universities are too big - impersonal - to me. The head of department of my current university asked me at the end of my Erasmus here if I was interested in following a Master's course. And so am I doing atm :-)

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Leuven or Humboldt, but these universities are too big

I consider that a good thing. I want to study 'anonymous'.

Because otherwise, even the professors would know your nickname: 'Wasted Ruben' ;-)

hahahaha

Yes, that is my concern.

Now i'm interested in finding a prestigious university for a graduate degree in law, any suggestions?

Yes, change your subject :p

Why? Law is pretty good...if you're good :p
money in the corporations is huuuuuge and if you want to go for the prestige, you can always become a judge or prosecutor...

anyway, finishing applied linguistics at University of Warsaw, it's nice :p especially that we've got a new building this year:

if you focus on patents and become a pattent attorney ... pick a right business (eg life sciences) and you can work anywhere and ask insane paychecks and they'll still gladly pay you :)