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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.
One University of Copenhagen department can be found in the village of Nødebo by the lake Esrum Sø, where Gribskov forest serves as a backyard. The beautiful surroundings are not your typical campus grounds.
Professor Jonas Peters has been recognised by SCIENCE students as an inspiring teacher of causality and mathematical models.
When the master’s thesis is defended and done. And the 20 years in the classroom are suddenly over. Ahead of you is working life. We talked to five students who are all at this turning point.
One messed-up exam will not be your downfall. This is according to Karen Riskær Jørgensen, who helps pressured law students on to their next exam - and from university on to a job.
