From what I heard, if You want a really strong drill, join some class where there are Japanese students (none were in my course). Those already know all characters and the number of introduced Hanzi (Chinese characters) is much higher.

The other thing I mentioned, there was quite a variety in learning level of the students. The course level was some kind of average of all students. But a friend told me, during the normal semester time, different levels are offered to suit all kind of learners.

Fridays we Calligraphy classes were scheduled, which reduced the learning speed quite a bit. I wished we had some repetition class at Friday instead. But then this is true for the summer course, don’t know about the semester course. The best thing is to go to their homepage and find a contact address of a current teacher or the director and ask there.

I stayed at the old campus, but I’m not sure what other institutes there are.

I don’t care if the environment is not that good, but I am very interested in learning a lot, so I hope I’m gonna like jiaotong uni^^

How expensive are the appartments around there?

Indeed, there is a wide selection of courses on chinese-tools. If You are taking a Chinese course outside China at the moment, then just ask Your teacher for his/her recommendation. This way everything will be easy.

I’ve been to a course in Jiatong Daxue in Chengdu. There was a good drill in class, but the level of the students was very different and the part of the city this course is located at is not so good. So I can’t recommend my course that much.

Overall I think search the web for courses in Your favorite city and then find out if there are recommendations and positive reviews by other people already for a specific course.