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The University of Copenhagen admitted 6,873 students this year. Women make up 63% of them. What are they studying? What aren’t they studying? This list breaks it down.
The University of Copenhagen intranet can be tougher to get your head around than even the most complicated scientific theory. Here is a guide for new students who may want some shortcut tips.
While most of the academic staff at UCPH are men, there are more female students. Is this a problem at all, and is one imbalance worse than the other?
There is an urgent need for 22,000 student homes for in Denmark, according to the Danish Construction Association. And 8,400 homes are needed in Copenhagen alone. The Social Liberal Party proposes setting up a general fund to build 20,000 new student homes.
Flower of youth or prime of life? There are large age differences among the batches of students starting in September at UCPH.
The Royal Library has stopped lending out master’s theses in the wake of new regulations on data protection and privacy. They are awaiting a response from the Danish Data Protection Agency – and then probably a huge practical task – before all the theses are available again.
This year it is not only Humanities, but also the subjects of Science at the University of Copenhagen that have been hit by falling applicant numbers. Associate Dean points to the new grade requirements as an explanation. But she believes that the new students are better qualified for UCPH life.
Psychology is yet again at the top of the list with the highest required grade point average of the University of Copenhagen (UCPH). The grade requirements for the top 10 programmes have generally gone up.
Both the humanities and science faculties are to admit significantly fewer students this year compared to 2017. The new minimum 6.0 grade point average requirement is a key part of the explanation. The psychology study programme is the hardest to get into.
For Ditte Borgvold, a student of German, the summer holidays evoke both fear and a sense of futility. She is not the only student who feels the pressure of the months with no classes, and no structure. But she reckons she has a solution to the problem.
