Die Länggasse ist das Studierendenquartier, dort spielt der Markt. Die Mieten sind für eine Schweizer Hauptstadt vernünftig.
Eine der einfacheren Schweizer Städte für den Einstieg. Kürzere Wartelisten und ein Markt, um den nicht so gekämpft wird wie in Zürich oder Genf.
Apply to the WOHNBÖRSE the day you are admitted — the list runs 2 to 6 months, so it rarely helps for your first semester, but it costs nothing and it helps for your second. Everything else means the private market.
File your residence permit dossier about three months before you arrive; processing runs eight to twelve weeks and nothing downstream starts until it is in. Register at your commune within fourteen days of landing, and sort health insurance within three months. The full timeline.
Campus is at Länggasse. Choose your neighbourhood by commute rather than by postcode — a cheaper room forty minutes away costs you two hours a day for a year.
Most University of Bern applicants get stuck on the same thing: an agency that wants someone resident in Switzerland to co-sign. We do that, for 3 months' rent — after we have read your file, and we do decline some.