Welcome: Yuan Way Chow from Kuala Lumpur spends an exchange semester at University of Graz

Yuan Way Chow is a master's student from Kuala Lumpur and is spending his exchange semester at the University of Graz. Photo: Uni Graz/Schweiger

His home university is almost 12,000 kilometres away. Yuan Way Chow is from Malaysia and currently completing his exchange semester at the department of Linguistics.

The master's student of sociolinguistics chose the University of Graz on the recommendation of his supervisor. And he has no regrets about the decision. Even his late arrival went smoothly: “When I arrived in Graz after office hours, my buddy brought me my key to the train station so that I didn't have to sleep under a bridge." Overall, the people are very hospitable.

"The students are very courteous and switch to English when I'm around,” Yuan Way Chow is pleased to report. He is also enthusiastic about the fact that the university is well managed with plentiful resources. And as a further plus point, he notes: “The University of Graz has an open campus and is much more integrated into the city than my home university, the University of Malaya in Kula Lumpur.”

Andreas Schweiger

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