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Student life
Describe host city:
Students equally interact with the local and student community
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Activities: Takes place mostly within the university/student environment
Nightlife, Travel: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment
Personal social experience
Personal comments
Student House. It's a cafe at night, wednesday nights is International Students night. It's a great place, with a good atmosphere and room to dance. They play popular music.
Club Cavy. Is a pretty fancy place, filled with beautiful people. A lot of students (Danish/international) go there on thursdays. They play mostly R&B music.
Dakota. It's a club/cafe. Is a great place too with good atmosphere.
Vega. It's a big club that is well known club in Copenhagen.
Rust is a good cafe as well.
There are plenty of nice pubs in the city centre, e.g. Old English Pub, Kennedy's, Shamrock, Mojo bar.
What you should do is visit the amusement park Tivoli when the season starts again. Copenhagen has a lot of parks and museums. There are also nice museums outside of Copenhagen, e.g. a castle in Hellsingor and the modern art musuem in Louisiana.
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Housing
Type of housing: A room exchange
Arranged by: Host university
If returning, I would choose: A room exchange
Why?
If I would go on exchange there again, I would choose to live in the same appartment. The location was great, right between the Business School and the city centre.
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Personal comments
In general housing at this university is very good. Most residences have a phone line and internet. There is however one residence that could use a lot of improvement. This is my residence; we were the only ones who did not have a phone line. The building was very old as well. But the fact that I was among exchange students (around 70, but sharing an appartment with 5 others) and had a good location made up for this all.
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Expenses
Main source of funding:
A private grant
Other sources of funding:
Family
Personal savings
An ERASMUS grant
Work opportunities:
I didn't explore any work options
Personal spending habits
Because I had limited funds, I did not want to spend too much on food groceries.
Housing was more expensivew because my rent was very high. Since most of my friends lived in the same building or around the corner, there was no immediate need to use my mobile phone to call. Because calling here is more expensive (in Denmark I had a prepaid card, while at home I have a montly subscription) I text-messaged a lot. I went out more often in Denmark, leading me to spend more in the Nightlife category.
If you're on exchange you want to see more of the countries and of the surrounding countries.
In general, prices in Denmark are a bit higher than in the Netherlands.
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Housing, Nightlife, Travel, Overall:
was more expensive than at home.
Food:
was the same price as at home.
Telephone:
was less expensive than at home.
Accessibility of student needs
Second-hand household items
Personal comments
You are going to spend a lot of money in the first two weeks; the first week you are following a Danish Crash Course, the second week is general Introduction week. You will be going out a lot then, thus spend more money.
A good cost-saving tip: get a bike, it's cheaper than buying a monthly pass if you get the bicycle early in the semester.
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Academic
Course recommendations
The course Intercultural Management is very nice. It required a lot of interaction with the teacher. Then there is the course International Advertising. This one is very interesting as well; we had a famous teacher (John Philip Jones) A drawback was that the course was not very organized.
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My academic experiences
Interaction with teachers
Interaction with international students
Interaction with local students
Personal comments
They use a different type of exams in a lot of courses. Here they often use, oral exams; I have never had that experience at my home university. It was a bit scary at first sight. However, there is a positive atmosphere at these oral exams.
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My opinion of the university assessment
Exams throughout the course
Essays and/or projects at the end of course
Essays and/or projects throughout the course
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Overall
I wish I had known...
It didn't occur to me that a lot of exchange students were going to be travelling in Scandinavia and rest of Europe. Otherwise I would have saved up more money for travelling.
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In my opinion:
Everybody loved it, you will too!
Important factors in my choice
(1) Unimportant – (4) Very important
Personal recommendation
It's a great univerisity. It is one of the best universities/business schools in Scandinavia.
Everything is very well organized for the exchange students. If there were any problems, the International Office was always ready to help.
The university itself is very beatiful, it has a nice architecture.
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During my experience abroad, I ...
(1) Never – (4) A lot
Became familiar with another culture
Met people from other countries
Experienced a change in life
Advanced my studies & career
Final comments
It can get very cold in the winter, so bring some warm clothes. In the spring and summer however it's very nice, so don't forget to bring spring/summer clothes too!
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Languages
Language of instruction: English
Was learning English a key decision factor?
No, it wasn't.
How much did you improve your English?
My level before: No problems in any areas (including slang)
My level after: No problems in any areas (including slang)
Language difficulties
Administrative / Institutional
Personal comments
The language of instruction at my home university is in English. So is the language instruction at my host university. We followed a Crash Course Danish, the first week we came here so that we could get by in basic everyday situations. In writing, the Danish language is very similar to Dutch. So I did not have much difficulty reading in Danish. The pronounciation however is very different.
In Denmark, most people speak basic English. So there is no real pressure to learn Danish.
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