INTERNATIONAL IMMERSION: AN EVALUATION BY EXCHANGE STUDENTS FROM PROFESSIONAL MASTER

Abstract

The internationalization of university courses involves the flow of people, information and possibly resources that move in the direction of foreign institutions with which it maintains academic cooperation ties, as in the opposite direction. This process can lead to academic advantages by improving training, education and research in the institution, and needs to be continuously assessed in order to improve its benefits. Therefore, this work presents an evaluation of international immersion initiative of a professional master's degree according the perception of the student. After 15 days of activities in Portugal, 26 students answered a questionnaire related to the effectiveness of the immersion program. In general, the results indicated a contribution extremely important for most activities, pointing to a benefit/cost relation favorable of the activity. The main difficulty pointed out by students for participation in the immersion was related to restrictions and bureaucracy to obtain resources in their work institutions.