I did my BS at the University of Illinois and studied abroad for a semester at the Universidad de Bio-Bio in Concepcion, Chile. It was a fantastic experience and I'm glad I visited another country in the Americas before visiting Europe. The people there are amazing and the country is beautiful. You are less likely to find people who are fluent in English than in Europe, and overall it was a very eye-opening experience for me.
The one class I took in computer science was data bases. The rest were culture classes. One thing I found strange about studying computer science in a foreign language, was learning SQL and having to explain to the class what some of the English words mean.... stuff I took for granted. You could avoid that if you want by taking algorithms or something not language dependent.
Side note: Chilean Spanish is very unique and took me a while to get used to... but it was worth it!
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I did my BS at the University of Illinois and studied abroad for a semester at the Universidad de Bio-Bio in Concepcion, Chile. It was a fantastic experience and I'm glad I visited another country in the Americas before visiting Europe. The people there are amazing and the country is beautiful. You are less likely to find people who are fluent in English than in Europe, and overall it was a very eye-opening experience for me. The one class I took in computer science was data bases. The rest were culture classes. One thing I found strange about studying computer science in a foreign language, was learning SQL and having to explain to the class what some of the English words mean.... stuff I took for granted. You could avoid that if you want by taking algorithms or something not language dependent. Side note: Chilean Spanish is very unique and took me a while to get used to... but it was worth it!