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University of Copenhagen to cut student admissions by 450 places starting next year

UCPH is to reduce new student numbers already from 2025 following the Danish master's degree reform.

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Full list: This is what you can expect to earn as a University of Copenhagen graduate

What can you expect to earn after studying at the University of Copenhagen? Here is an overview over starting salaries for new graduates, and for graduates after ten years on the labour market.

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Education

Ranked: These University of Copenhagen programmes will lead to the highest salaries

See which programmes at the University of Copenhagen lead to the highest salaries (10 years after finishing university).

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Education

Student organisation: Applicant numbers reveal damage by politicians

Applicant numbers reveal opposition to the government's education policy reforms. This is in spite of a slight increase in admissions to, for example, the University of Copenhagen (UCPH), according to the National Union of Students in Denmark. Chairperson wants to bring attention to the long-term consequences.

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Education

New study: Students need more teaching in artificial intelligence

If students are not being taught artificial intelligence, they are not being prepared for the labour market of the real world . This is according to a researcher who encourages the University of Copenhagen to make the new technology a bigger part of students' daily lives.

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Professor with a pump gun

Professor of freshwater biology at UCPH Kirsten Seestern Christoffersen shoulders a rifle when she takes students out on field trips in Greenland and on Svalbard in northern Norway. But the weapon is no protection against climate change.

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University of Copenhagen to slash admissions numbers by 789 places annually

A political majority has decided that Danish universities should cut admissions by one tenth from 2025. Under the agreement, the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) is to reduce its bachelor intake by 11.7 per cent.

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The exchange programme where a survival course is mandatory

Students at the university on Svalbard get a week-long safety course which includes shooting with rifles: They share territory with polar bears. We met up with two UCPH students close to the North Pole who say their experiences are 'supreme' and 'absurdly beautiful'.

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Education researcher: »Learning and critical thinking presuppose uncertainty«

Assistant Professor Marie Larsen Ryberg has observed courses where students were completely overwhelmed. But she found that this was precisely where the students learned the most. Here she offers up her advice on how teaching can open up a space for uncertainty.

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Alternative marketing: Nanoscience boosted applicant numbers via TikTok ads

»If you're going to reach out to young people, you have to be in their place. And this is on platforms like TikTok,« says professor of chemistry Thomas Just Sørensen.

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