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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.
The Faculty of Humanities has received 16.2 per cent fewer applications than last year. Several major humanities programmes now have the lowest number of applications since 2008. Student Council and the Associate Dean reckon it is due to government reforms and humanities-bashing in the press.
In 2014, Mohannad Aloula fled, on his own, from Syria to Denmark to avoid the forces of Assad. Now he is doing an internship at the Department of Chemistry while studying at the adult education college VUC. In his homeland he studied chemistry, and he hopes to start biochemistry next summer.
27-årige Gildas Hounmanou arbejder med sin ph.d. på Københavns Universitet for at kunne vende tilbage til sit hjemland Benin og bekæmpe de mange udbrud af kolera i hele Afrika.
