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At the Faculty of Humanities they are tired of being pilloried as unemployed academics who do not contribute to society. They say their unemployment numbers are not too high – and maybe they have a point. They have found mistakes in the Ministry's numbers.
The Department of Computer Science at UCPH has jumped to 11th place on the world's best computer science departments list. UCPH is the only European university on the list apart from ETH in Switzerland.
A number of students’ CPR personal registration numbers were posted on the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences intranet by mistake. And the students were not subsequently informed. The faculty has now been reprimanded by the Danish Data Protection Agency.
For Gojko Barjamovic, a master’s degree in Assyriology from UCPH was the path to a job at one of the world's most prestigious universities.
On the new Shanghai ranking of the world's best universities, the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) remains ranked at number 30, the sixth best in Europe.
Eva Maria liked her humanities subjects, but her master’s couldn’t land her a job. Now she is studying to be an electrical engineer and reckons that the Danish government’s downsizing of study programmes is a good idea.
The Cross-Cultural Studies education programme is a success, and its’ subjects are oriented towards a career in business. This can be seen by the fact that the Confederation of Danish Industry and the Confederation of Danish Enterprise have contributed to it. Department head responds to the criticism by a former student.
The hotly contested Danish education reform may be in its final death throes. Was the Study Progress Reform a flop and what will take its place? The University Post summarises four years of Study Progress Reform struggle.
Your alcohol consumption during the start of your study affects your well-being on your study programme. A survey from the Danish Evaluation Institute shows that students who either drink a lot, or who don’t drink at all during the start of their study programme have a greater risk of dropping out.
UCPH is admitting 7,270 new students. The natural sciences are attracting more students, while the humanities subjects are attracting less. See which programmes are the hardest to get into - and read why UCPH wants to abolish the grade bonus.
