Luxembourg School of Business

What a week actually looks like is a property of a programme, not of an institution, so ask about the programme. Establish whether teaching runs full-time, part-time, in evenings or in concentrated blocks; whether attendance is expected in person, remotely or in some mixture; how assessment is spread across a term; how much of the work is done in teams; and whether students progress together as a group. People enrolled at the same place can describe entirely different weeks, which is why an impression of the place tells you very little about your own.

Around that sits everything else: student organisations, sport, events, representation, and whatever is arranged for people who have just arrived. Ask who runs those, how someone joins, whether anything carries a charge, and which languages are used informally as well as formally. If you are hoping to build a circle quickly rather than gradually, that takes deliberate effort in any new place, and our guide to building community abroad sets out habits that tend to help. What the institution itself lays on is a question for student services.

Arrange accommodation on the same timetable as the application, not after it. The opening questions are simple: does the institution provide or allocate housing at all, does it point students towards particular providers, is there an application with its own timing, and what does someone do who has not settled anything by the time teaching starts? Ask the office responsible, and ask what it advises for the nights immediately after arrival if a longer arrangement is not yet in place.

Where the answer is the private market, the things that matter are contractual rather than visual. Establish what the rent includes and what is billed separately, the length of the agreement and whether it can end early, the deposit and what returns it, notice on either side, and who is named if you share with others. Money between flatmates causes more trouble than the rent itself, and settling it in advance is easier than unpicking it later, which is the ground covered by our guide to handling money with flatmates.

Check the journey as well as the room. Ask how you would travel between an address and the places you are expected to be, at the hours you would actually make that journey rather than at a quiet time of day. If you are arranging this from another country, ask what can be viewed, signed and paid for remotely, what has to wait until you arrive, and what the institution would treat as a warning sign in a listing.

An application from another country is a set of separate questions wearing a single name. What the formalities of entry and of residence involve for someone in your position. Which registrations are expected locally once you arrive. What health cover a student is expected to hold, and where it comes from. Whether any paid work during study is available to you. Who examines the qualifications you already hold, and what that examination consists of. Which language a programme is delivered in, and which language its administration uses. None of those is answered here, and none of them should be.

Each belongs to the institution's international student office or to an official authority, so start with the office, ask it which authority owns the parts it does not, and go to that authority's own guidance. Ask about your own case rather than the general one, ask how long each step usually takes, and keep a record of what you were told and by whom. Where working alongside study comes up, treat it as a question for the authority and the institution rather than an assumption, since our pages on student work cover only the general side of it.

You will not find requirements, dates or selection information here. They are the institution's to publish, they differ between programmes and intakes, and they change, so a copy kept anywhere else is a snapshot that stops being true silently. Read the institution's own admissions pages for the intake you are applying to, in full rather than in summary, and note the office behind them.

Reduce the rest to plain questions and put them to that office: where does an application go, what does the cycle look like, what documents are expected and in what form, does anything need certifying or translating, how is a decision communicated, and who to contact when something is unclear. Keep your own copies and your own dates. U4S is not affiliated with the institution, is not endorsed by it and does not write on its behalf, and what is checked before a page like this appears is described in our sources and methodology.

There is no fee figure on this page. Amounts are set and revised by the institution, they can differ by programme and by level, and a figure reproduced here would be a snapshot dressed up as a fact. The cost of getting that wrong falls on the reader rather than on the page, which is reason enough to leave the number where it belongs.

While reading official pages, hold some cautions in mind without assuming that any applies here. A published amount may turn out to cover a semester rather than a full year, so check what span it refers to before you multiply it by anything. Level of study may also change the rate, which means a figure attached to one stage will not necessarily hold for the stage you would join at. Ask the institution which of its pages is authoritative, and ask it to confirm which amount applies to you.

Then set what you learn against what living there would cost, which is a separate matter the institution does not set and cannot confirm for you. Our guide to fees against living costs explains why the two are worth budgeting apart. Take the amount itself from the institution's own fee pages for the relevant year of entry, and confirm it with the office that publishes them before committing to anything.