Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU)

The best part for me were the international students I met and the classes I took. I mainly went to Denmark because I could use English there, but if you want to learn another language and have more fun, choose a warmer European country!! :)

The university is excellent and I believe that during the two-year MSc. program I enabled myself to become a better, more skilled engineer. However, people contemplating coming to Denmark should consider a very important factor relating to life in Denmark: Your contact will almost always be restricted to other foreigners. It is very hard to get to know Danes. More disturbing than anything else, was the overall attitude of many Danes to foreigners. it sickening to read and hear on a daily basis what Danish people think about people coming from other countries. Most did not want to have anything to do with them. The situation is considerably worse if your appearance is non-Nordic. Arabs, along with any darker skinned persons, are in particular perceived as trouble makers, as parasites, as useless people. The racist and prejudicial terms used by too many Danes to describe their attitude would not be acceptable in most countries! Prejudice, if not sheer hatred, is evident in many spheres. Some clubs will not hesitate to filter out, at the entrance, people who don't look Danish. Even at the university, foreigners who wander by mistake to a party which had not been designated for the "International students", will feel very fast how their presence is unwanted. Many people would not like to rent out rooms to foreigners. In more extreme cases, you will be told to "go home". It is a shocking revelation to many of the longer-term visitors to his country. However, I have never encountered violent (in the physical sense) manifestations of hatred of foreigners.

I couldn't get money in Sweden in a ATM with my Visa card, maybe because it is a debit card, but I didn't have such problem in Denmark. This was a specific problem, in general I have no problems.

DTU had a few parties throughout the semester that were held on campus. These were helpful in allowing us to meet others. However, afterwards, most of my travel and nightlife was done with my own friends, and we had to figure out how to do that ourselves. Copenhagen is not far away from DTU and it is great for nightlife. Travel from Denmark is quite costly, but I was able to go around Sweden, Germany, Czech Republic and Austria in my time there. Best advice: do as much as you can during the summer months, because once winter hits, the weather is too bad to do much.

well the real insiders are only for insiders and will not be distributed on the web. Bumping arround copenhagen you will come accross bars: MOOSE (cheap beer on thursdays and Saturdays), Student house ( allways crowded on wednesdays), Zoo Bar (wildest parties on wednesday and Fiydays) The whole street Istedgade is packed with good bars; Night clubs: Rust, Vega, Stengade 30. Of course you don't want to miss CHRISTIANIA. Copenhagen Jazzfestival, Filmfestival....... I'm tired of typing now. go and explore the city!!!