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He got on a plane for the first time in his life to go to an industrial district 90 km west of Copenhagen. Here, in the first year of a new Master's degree programme, Lokesh Venkatesan is specializing in bio-waste.
UCPH is to reduce new student numbers already from 2025 following the Danish master's degree reform.
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.
See which programmes at the University of Copenhagen lead to the highest salaries (10 years after finishing university).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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'.
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.
