Greetings from French Riviera!

I did my exchange in Nice, France, last spring 2018. I studied at IPAG Business School located in the heart of Nice. In the Shanghai Ranking, IPAG is listed as the 3rd best French business school, so I had high expectations when I started my studies there.

My school started on Thursday 25th January 2018. We had small orientation at first (approx. 1-2 hours) where we talked about the semester, exams and participation. In my opinion, the orientation should have been longer and more extensive. We had to find out most of the practical things ourselves, since the orientation was so limited.

In IPAG I studied Strategic Human Resources Management, Small Business Development, International Marketing and French. All of the courses (except French) were built around one big group work. The final evaluation was made according to the mid term exam, final course exam and group work. The scale was 1-20, and you needed at least 10 points to pass the course. I was hoping there would be more traditional lectures and less group works, but in IPAG we had the other way round. 

In my spare time in Nice we travelled along the Southern France: Cannes, Antibes, Monaco, Menton, Valberg… We also travelled to Barcelona in February and to Italy in April. Besides the travelling, my normal day included school, gym, groceries and Netflix – just like in Finland.

My studies in IPAG were quite similar than in TAMK. One of the differences was that it was usual in IPAG that the lectures might be cancelled in last minute. In TAMK we have never had that.

We had our final exams at the end of May 2018, and I flew back to Finland on Thursday 31st May 2018.

If you have your exchange in Nice and you have questions about the education, city or anything, don’t hesitate to contact me! 🙂

Yours Sincerely,

Julia

julia.taivaljarvi@biz.tamk.fi

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