{"id":3277,"date":"2016-07-29T14:16:04","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T12:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/?p=3277\/"},"modified":"2017-01-20T20:31:08","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T20:31:08","slug":"ucph-takes-in-500-fewer-students-than-last-year-despite-a-rise-in-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/ucph-takes-in-500-fewer-students-than-last-year-despite-a-rise-in-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"UCPH takes in 500 fewer students than last year, despite a rise in applications"},"content":{"rendered":"

This summer, UCPH is offering 7440 study places to a total 18,427 applicants, whereas last year there were 7821 spots on offer. This is a decline of 6 percent in the number of study places. The new figures are reported by the University of Copenhagen\u2019s website nyheder.ku.dk<\/em><\/a> (in Danish). <\/p>\n

This means that it is now tougher to get accepted into UCPH. <\/p>\n

The reason is the so-called \u201cdimensioning\u201d strategy<\/a>, referring to Parliament\u2019s decision to accept fewer students into state tertiary programs which do not, according to politicians, hold strong employment opportunities after study.<\/p>\n

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L\u00e6s mere:<\/div>\n

Minister to cut 4,000 study places from Danish universities <\/a> <\/div>\n

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UCPH is cutting back on smaller programs, but that\u2019s not the whole story<\/h2>\n

However, UCPH is also closing 14 humanities programs of its own accord in order to cut back in response to the Faculty of Humanities\u2019 strained budget. Programs are costing more to run than the state is currently willing to pay. For example, the Turkish language program costs DKK 760,000 according to UCPH\u2019s data, while the state\u2019s contribution to the study field is just DKK 415,000. <\/p>\n

The total uptake of the 14 programs amounted to only 142 people in 2015.<\/p>\n

According to the program coordinator at UCPH\u2019s Education Service, Pernille Kindtler, there is, however, an increasing interest in many humanities programs: <\/p>\n

\u201cThe applies to several of the language programs, where both English and Italian, for example, have received more applications,\u201d she says to nyheder.ku.dk<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Jump in Theology applications <\/h2>\n

The largest increase in the number of applicants (21.9 percent) is found in Theology. In 2015, 128 students were accepted into the program. <\/p>\n

Over the past year, The Faculty of Theology has frequently been the subject of heated debate, after a controversy surrounding errors in the theology Ph.D. thesis submitted by the Minister of Environment and Food, Esben Lund Larsen, who was formerly the Minister of Higher Education and Science.<\/p>\n

In 2016, UCPH received over every fourth 1st priority application in Denmark, meaning that the country\u2019s largest university is also the most popular among a number of potential students.<\/p>\n

The university cannot yet comment on whether there has been a corresponding fall in the number of international students. <\/p>\n

chz@adm.ku.dk<\/p>\n

Sign up for the University Post weekly newsletter here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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However, the applicants will have to battle it out for study places, because UCPH is taking in 500 fewer students","use_post_excerpt":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"Byline","is_author":false,"contributors":[{"use_registered_user":false,"user":false,"contributor_name":"Christoffer Zieler","contributor_title":" ","contributor_image":false}]},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<p>This summer, UCPH is offering 7440 study places to a total 18,427 applicants, whereas last year there were 7821 spots on offer. This is a decline of 6 percent in the number of study places. The new figures are reported by <a href=\"nyheder.ku.dk\" target=\"blank\">the University of Copenhagen\u2019s website <em>nyheder.ku.dk<\/em><\/a> (in Danish). <\/p>\n<p>This means that it is now tougher to get accepted into UCPH. <\/p>\n<p>The reason is <a href=\"node\/26556\/\" target=\"blank\">the so-called \u201cdimensioning\u201d strategy<\/a>, referring to Parliament\u2019s decision to accept fewer students into state tertiary programs which do not, according to politicians, hold strong employment opportunities after study.<\/p>\n<div class=\"dme-external-teaser dme-external-teaser-3\">\n<div class=\"image\">\n<div class=\"dme-image dme-image-center dme-image-preset-0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/universitetsavisen.dk\/node\/26556\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/old_files\/sofiecarstennielsencutbackstory.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"title\">\n<div class=\"label\">L\u00e6s mere:<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/universitetsavisen.dk\/node\/26556\">Minister to cut 4,000 study places from Danish universities <\/a> <\/div>\n<div class=\"teaser_text\">\n <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>UCPH is cutting back on smaller programs, but that\u2019s not the whole story<\/h2>\n<p>However, UCPH is also closing 14 humanities programs of its own accord in order to cut back in response to the Faculty of Humanities\u2019 strained budget. Programs are costing more to run than the state is currently willing to pay. For example, the Turkish language program costs DKK 760,000 according to UCPH\u2019s data, while the state\u2019s contribution to the study field is just DKK 415,000. <\/p>\n<p>The total uptake of the 14 programs amounted to only 142 people in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>According to the program coordinator at UCPH\u2019s Education Service, Pernille Kindtler, there is, however, an increasing interest in many humanities programs: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe applies to several of the language programs, where both English and Italian, for example, have received more applications,\u201d she says to <a href=\"nyheder.ku.dk\" target=\"blank\">nyheder.ku.dk<\/a>. <\/p>\n<h2>Jump in Theology applications <\/h2>\n<p>The largest increase in the number of applicants (21.9 percent) is found in Theology. In 2015, 128 students were accepted into the program. <\/p>\n<p>Over the past year, The Faculty of Theology has frequently been the subject of heated debate, after a controversy surrounding errors in the theology Ph.D. thesis submitted by the Minister of Environment and Food, Esben Lund Larsen, who was formerly the Minister of Higher Education and Science.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, UCPH received over every fourth 1st priority application in Denmark, meaning that the country\u2019s largest university is also the most popular among a number of potential students.<\/p>\n<p>The university cannot yet comment on whether there has been a corresponding fall in the number of international students. <\/p>\n<p>chz@adm.ku.dk<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/universitypost.dk\/newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for the University Post weekly newsletter here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"ArticleEnd"},{"acf_fc_layout":"OtherStories","headline":"","hand_picked_posts":false,"references":false,"category":false,"theme":false,"number_of_posts":"4","style":"default"}]},"taxonomyData":{"category":[{"term_id":42,"name":"Education","slug":"education","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":42,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":661,"filter":"raw"}],"post_tag":[],"post_format":[],"expression":[{"term_id":15,"name":"News Article","slug":"news_article","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":15,"taxonomy":"expression","description":"","parent":0,"count":11492,"filter":"raw"}],"translation_priority":[]},"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/021_immatrikulation_2015_paa_ku_den_28_august.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3277"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31146,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277\/revisions\/31146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}