Study in Bordeaux

Budget roughly €980/month sharing an apartment (colocation), or around €1320/month for your own studio. Both figures include rent, food, transport, and daily expenses. Studio rents run in the mid-hundreds per month, with shared rooms notably cheaper; CAF housing aid of €100–300 is available for eligible students.

Bordeaux is home to several leading institutions including Université de Bordeaux (55,000 students). Top grandes écoles include KEDGE Business School, Sciences Po Bordeaux, Bordeaux INP. The strongest fields are Business, Law, Sciences, Medicine, Oenology. EU students pay €178/year and non-EU students pay €2895/year at public universities.

Bordeaux has good public transport. A discounted student pass (TBM abonnement étudiant) is available — check TBM (Transports Bordeaux Métropole) for the current rate. The city is bike-friendly with V3 bike-share (extensive cycling lanes) bike-share. Airport access is available via Bordeaux-Mérignac international; TGV to Paris 2 hrs.

Yes. Students in Bordeaux on a French student visa can work 964 hrs/year (~18.5 hrs/wk). The local student job market is medium-strong — aerospace, wine, digital sector. Internship opportunities are also good — dassault aviation, airbus nearby, growing startups.

Uniquely so — it’s the world wine capital, with La Cité du Vin and the INSEEC/KEDGE wine-business and oenology programmes, plus vineyard estates a short train ride away in Saint-Émilion and the Médoc.

The ’30 Direct shuttle bus and the tram A extension both link Bordeaux-Mérignac to the centre in around 30 minutes. The TGV also reaches Paris in about 2 hours, making Bordeaux well-connected for weekend trips.

La Victoire and Saint-Michel are the student nightlife core near the health faculties; Chartrons is arty and central; the Talence–Pessac campus southwest concentrates halls and cheaper rents on the tram B line.

Yes — KEDGE Business School, Sciences Po Bordeaux and INP Bordeaux run English-taught programmes, and Université de Bordeaux offers international tracks in sciences and law.

It centres on the riverfront quays and the Miroir d’eau, the bars around Place de la Victoire, and easy escapes to the Arcachon beaches and Saint-Émilion vineyards. The whole historic core is UNESCO-listed and walkable.

Usually yes. Without a French guarantor, use Visale, the free state-backed guarantor for under-30s; the online certificate takes about a week and is widely accepted by Bordeaux agencies.