Leeuwarden, Stenden, IBMS

Leeuwarden, as I mentioned before, the capital of Friesland. It's a typical student city, has 3 universities: Van Hall Institute, NHL and Stenden - that is where I study right now. Here is a nice video of the city  ,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_kBXUZ0bYY&feature=related

As for the school, it's called Stenden University of Applied Sciences. I am studying at HBO, still getting a Bachalor degree, but in Holland there is a difference between Bachalor and Bachalor. See, they have universities, and colleges/HBO. HBO is a lower level, actually it is lower because it's more practical. If you go abroad, noone will look at it and make a difference, this differs only in Holland. I prefer HBO because I dont have to study my ass off at the exam periods.

Oh ye, exams! My course work this way: a year is devided into 4 moduls/periods. One modul takes about 2 and a half months, and in the end of the period you take your exams. Every modul is built up around one subject. E.g: In the first one we had marketing - then we had marketing lectures, english classes, and some other stuff. 2nd period was management accounting - we had book-keeping, accounting, statistics, and english and other stuff (English is offered the whole year - I mean, it's not offered, it's compalsury :D)

The point is that we always have an exam week at the end of the period, when you dont have classes, just exams (that 3 max 4...) and after or before we have a so-called study-week - a week off. Nice, huh? Just chilling for practically 2 weeks. I'm lovin' it.

So some words about IBMS - international business and management studies.
The course takes 4 years and we are going to become the managers of the future. As for the degree, we will get one in Business Administration. It is real fun, it's said to be the most difficult course of the school but I studied in Hungary before so if you decide, as a Hungarian, to come and study here, you wont have a problem at all.
We have a lot of group works, assignments - we gotta work on cases 5 or 6 of us. It is VERY international and you get to know a lot of cultures.
As a part of the course, we have the chance to go abroad in the 4th year - to study a half year and then do our internship, or the internship whole year while we also have to write our thesis. Pretty cool.
In addition, in the 1st and 2nd year, we all go to excursions, this year to Belgium (Brussels, Antwerpen) and next year, Im not sure where because last year the 2nd-year-students went to Berlin but I believe, this year they went to Prague. Oh, and it is also compulsory! So if you wanna be the part of a dynamic, intercultural environment, IBMS is for you!! ( nice marketing line, huh? :D) http://www.topibms.nl/