Petite et au bord du lac. Le service logement est réellement utile, ce qui n'est pas vrai partout.
Assez petite pour que le service logement de l'université connaisse réellement les bailleurs du coin. Cela vaut la peine de leur écrire directement avant de payer qui que ce soit pour chercher.
Apply to the FUN residences the day you are admitted — the list runs 2 to 5 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 the city centre. 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 Neuchâtel 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.