[wcip Wrote:Angel,Mar 29 2004, 08:44 PM]But do they speak English in Holland? Isn't it like Germany, France and Italy where you're taught English very late in school, and thus very few people have proper (or any) command of it?Oooh men how much misunderstanding!!!! :D We speak dutch!!!
Okay form a dutch guy then.
Especially in spoken english, we the dutch, tend to believe we are the most fluent speakers, of all countries (where english is not the official language of course). It is because a lot of foreigners in our country (english speakers, germans, french, just speak there own language and we just try to speak that as well, if we however visit other countries ourselves we always try to speak the language of that country) I guess this is because we are such a small country (we also don't have a dutch version of diablo2), I think the same will apply for countries like denmark, norway and sweden.
I don't know if it's true but you will at least not have a lot of troubles here, especially not with younger people.
Further you (the topic starter I mean, not [wcip]angel). say you do something with computer science. And you want to do a Ph.D over here in Holland or do you want to graduate here?
The normal undergraduate education is, since a few years, also divided in Bachelors en Masters degrees like it is in the US. I personally liked more the way it was before....but probably I'm not objective and a bit conservative in these things :rolleyes: Anyway, because it is now more or less the same it might be easy for you to do you graduation research over here.
Anyway, universities you want to look for are Delft, Twente, Eindhoven, which are all "technical" universities were they don't teach things like law and economics, but more things like physics, chemistry, electronics, computers science, mathematics. Check for homepages like TUdelft.nl or utwente.nl or tue.nl. (googling is also fine of course.)
Then there are the "normal" (traditinonal) universities like Utrecht, Amsterdam (2), Groningen, Leiden. (these are the bigger once which I think will have a computer science faculty or groups. (there are a few more U's)
The level of the universities is in general high here. Especially in research but also in education. I'm sure you can contact somebody at a University here (the webpages are also in english so it's easy to find the right people). Or if you have a professor over there for sure he will know some dutch colleagues whom he can recommend.