Paris Dauphine University

As mentioned in other reviews, this is an extremely overrated university. Stay far, far away if you want to do an English program.

ALL communication is in French: information on administration, enrollment, activities, etc. There is a very limited amount of English-speaking teachers and this will strongly limit your specialization choices. In my first week, I was forced to move to different courses than the ones I chose because they were not taught in English any more. As a result, I am stuck with unwanted courses.

Books are outdated (I have a course where we HAVE to use the 2006 version of a textbook, while four newer versions have come out) or even in French (for English-taught classes).

The teaching style is very similar to elementary or middle school. During some lectures (which are 2x1,5 hours with a 15 min break), it is not allowed to have ANY drinks or food visible. Keeping a closed bottle of water on your table? Not allowed: class will not continue until you remove the bottle.

The classrooms are even more outdated than the books used in class. The “amphis” have no ventilation whatsoever and thus smell like mold and sweat (especially after 3 hours with 100 people in one room). This is crazy to me especially considering the health risks of Covid.

Other disadvantages of Dauphine vs state-of-the-art schools:

• Unstructured classes and schedules: you will have no idea what your planning in 1-2 months will be.
• The English version of the website is bad: there is less information and very often outdated information (i.e. only the French version gets updates)
• Other digital resources are extremely sloppy and feel cobbled together
• Bureaucracy: maybe general to France, but expect to fill in ALL your details at least 5 times, to then get an extremely delayed negative response and request to redo it all

Whatever you do, do not go here. It is a complete waste of time and energy.