The University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt is founded in 1994. The main campus is in Wiener Neustadt and two smaller campuses are located in Wieselburg and Tulln. The business school offers a course called Business Consultancy International, a bachelor degree program, which is exclusively taught in English. Another program taught in English is the Aerospace Engineering Master program.

We were very well received by international responsibilities, teachers and students. There are many different cultures in each class, Finnish, Korean, Mexican, Russian, French, German meet every day. We live in the same residence, thus we share a lot of things together.

This Saturday, March 14 took place the open house of the school. The exchange student were cooking specialties from their country. We prepared some dishes : quiche, pain perdu, camembert toasts, crêpes, oliv cake and ham cake. 

From my point of view, FH system is similar to that of ESDES. Concerning courses, we see many concept already seen in class in France. However, they courses are quite longer, from 1h30 for microeconomics, to 3h30 for marketing with 20 mins break. It is quite difficult with the language because we are not used to having courses in English in France. Also, teachers can be stricts and others more lax but we can always leave the room when we want. In France, if we leave the room we ask permission to the professor to avoid disturbing the class. Here, no one asks if anyone wants out, he does. Concerning absence, I think it is similar with ESDES. We may be missing to 2 times maximum for each course, otherwise we can not pass the final exam. In addition, we are not all the time with exchangers because we have class with regular students, it is interesting to know other people who live here all the year.

I realized that it was very nice to leave with other foreign people because we learn many things about their culture and their country like specific cuisine, traditional event or the language. But we learn also about us. We participate in a course called Intercultural Business Skills, with others exchangers and where we learn how foreigners see us though our own culture. For example, for them, French is seen as a man with a mustache, baguette in one hand and smelly. But we are also the best for cosmetic, perfume, high fashion and we have delicious cuisine.

In addition, during five month, we live in a nice dorms near the university. There are three buildings, we live in building with third floors and the exchangers live on the first floor. Regular students live in the others. We are two by apartment with private room, kitchen, and bathroom. Each floor have one common kitchen when we want to joins us all together. 

Restaurants, cinema, bar, shop, swimming pool, bowling are 10 minutes walk to the dorms, the city center of Wiener Neustatd is 15 minutes by bus and Vienna, 30 minutes by train. With our student card, we do not pay the bus and we have a reduction to take the train.