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The new semester has brought many new faces to the University of Copenhagen. We met a couple of them. Jonas who is still looking for a place to live, Trine who got into the law programme right after her upper secondary school, and Michela from Italy who is researching vaccines for farm animals

The start of the semester marks the beginning of a housing hunt for many students, but unfortunately also for housing fraudsters who trick people for thousands of krones. Deputy Chief Superintendent Claus Birkelyng provides some tips on how you can avoid falling victim to housing scams

Free time: Choose between various sporting activities, from mountain climbing and akroyoga to swing dance – and meet other students from different studies

Rector’s comment: Ralf Hemmingsen welcomes the students in an age, where things are not what they once were – and which therefore urgently needs your contribution

REFUGEE ASSISTANCE – Medicine student Mathilde Baumann works as a volunteer coordinator of tutors to asylum seeker children and immigrant children, while on maternity leave

Anorexic philosophy student shares her personal stigma. Looking back at her bachelor she says: People like us need a platform to speak from

In just three years, average rent has increased by 19 percent in Copenhagen. ”A large increase,” according to one consumer economist, with prices rarely under DKK 4,000 a month

Copenhagen law student Jonas Thomsen Sekyere was stabbed to death in a Vesterbro night club nearly four years ago. Now his killer has been sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment in Somalia

It has become harder for students to find a place to live in Copenhagen. According to a Danish Construction Association analysis, the city now has a 9,500 student housing shortfall, up by 1,000 over last year

So you've arrived in a new, strange, and foreign land. Need a hand finding your bearings, exploring the city, and making new friends? The University Post is here to help