Experience in National Technical University of Athens, Greece by Vassilis

Generally, what is National Technical University of Athens like?

A place that despite lack of funding and bad political decisions manages to do active research and produces proffessionals with generalized knowledge.

What are the facilities like?

It depends on the professional orientation.

- The library is quite spacious with great content

- There is are two in campus restaurants, one offering free (or almost free) to students and the other offering a better variety at higher, but still afforable, price

- There is a gym that again can be accessed for free, which includes an indoors basketball field, outdoors tennis club, table tennis and a space with weight lifting and other equipment

- There is possibility of receiving free acommodation at the students residence, which are recently built and in a quite well condition, at least viewed from outside

- There is a lot of space to run or cycle

What are the tutors like?

There is a great proportion of tutors that take great responsibility and do the best they can, given the low funding. There are others who are more into research and other who are more managers, both of those categories are usually average to bad tutors.

Are the lessons easy in National Technical University of Athens?

Nope, not at all, but it still depends on the program

Does the University organise activities? If so, what are they like?

-There are volunteering activities, regarding students well being,

- There are also political parties of students that organize parties, political education and, well, takeovers, or other activities

- There are artistic activities, like danse, theatre, playing music or singing

Do you think there is a good quality of teaching?

Overall I believe that the quality is a little above average, but the students there usually raise that quality, as they have been selected with very hard criteria and most of them are passionate about what they are studying and doing