Copenhagen Business School (CBS)

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.