Details

• Canada
• MAMgmt-14
• Graduate
• WS 2025
• Time spent at the partner university: 4 months

1. Preparation

I travelled to Kingston via New York City and took the opportunity to spend 10 days in New York before my exchange semester started. I then flew to Toronto from NYC and took the train from Toronto to Kingston. This connection was easy and affordable and offered a frictionsless experience.

2. Accommodation

For housing, I can recommend Facebook marketplace and I recommend looking early, because the Fall semester is usually when all incoming students are looking for housing. Additionally, be careful with lomg term contracts because finding someone to sublet your apartment too after the fall semester is going to be difficult, as the Canadian students go on their semesters abroad at that time and in the following summer semester few people stay in Kingston. This means that a lot of people put their place up to sublet, while few people are looking for housing.

3. Academic life at host university

The teaching style at Kingston is more interactive and more practically oriented than at WU. I can highly recommend the course Dynamic Strategy Execution. The campus is beautiful and very typical for a North American university. A lot of daily life takes place on campus, and the facilities offer a lot, starting from a gym and free workout classes to restaurants, bars, grocery stores, and cafes.

5. Every day life in the host country

Kingston is a college town and dominated by college life. It is very safe and has a very active student community. There's always something to do and people are always out and about, and personally I did not find many reasons to sit at home and do nothing. There are plenty of sport andf lesiure options for everyone, including a free gym.

6. Testimonial

I genuinely loved my time in Kingston. The location within Canada allowed us to tarvel a lot, both to places like Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec City and Thousand Islands during the exchange, and to NYc and Aruba before and after the exchange. I've met many amazing people in Kingston and I was never bored. From Homecoming to Halloween or jumping into Lake Ontario, I will always highly recommend an exchange in Canada.