Alcuni studenti abitano in Francia, oltre confine, dove gli affitti sono più bassi. Funziona, ma cambia il permesso e l'annuncio di domicilio.
Il mercato più teso del paese. Un tasso di sfitto vicino a un terzo di punto percentuale significa che le agenzie possono scegliere, e uno studente internazionale senza dossier svizzero raramente è la scelta. Chi ce la fa qui parte quasi sempre da una coabitazione e trasloca dopo.
Apply to Cité Universitaire the day you are admitted — the list runs 5 to 9 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 Plainpalais. 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 Geneva 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.