Housing is provided by student type residences on campus, student flats nearby, student apartments, and local host families. For all programs, CSA allows students to ‘book” their own housing online, and we provide housing web-links with your confirmation documents. On several programs, CSA can arrange your housing and include the cost with your total balance. Overall, we want to give you as much flexibility and control over your housing as possible. Housing is a very important part of the study-abroad experience, and we want all students to be satisfied with their housing. Again, CSA can include your housing for many programs, so please let us know. Another option for some programs is to have CSA reserve your housing in advance….but you pay for it when you check-in (depends on program). Housing options vary per program.
CSA will provide you with housing website links with your confirmation documents….includes student residences, student apartments (flats), hostels, hotels, and housing agencies. We encourage you to book your own housing online. It is easy to do for most programs. Please let us know if you have any problems with booking housing online. Also, since arrival check-in times can vary, you may need a hotel for the first 1 – 2 nights.
In regards to staying with a Host Family in Europe, please understand that it is primarily a “boarding arrangement” whereby you are renting a room from a widow or divorced lady. The host lady will expect you to spend most of your time with your school friends. This is true of most study-abroad programs in Europe. It is very rare that a complete European family (mother, father, children) will open their home to host a foreign student. That is why most students prefer to stay on campus or nearby in student type residences, for they are usually closer, more convenient, often less expensive, and you make more friends and have a much better social life. The idea of staying with a European family will greatly enhance your experience abroad is very over-rated and simply not true. The reality is often much more sobering as the student guest realizes that their European host is really only interested in “renting out” the room – commercial reasons primarily – which is to be expected.
France Student Housing
www.estudines.com
www.locaflat.com
Spain Student Housing
www.resa.es
Hostels (Worldwide)
www.hostel.com
www.hostelworld.com
Apartment Living Worldwide
www.citadines.com
www.apartmentservice.com
NOTE: Additional (specific) housing website links included with confirmation documents.
