University of Copenhagen

Record-high intake at the University of Copenhagen

This year, the University of Copenhagen admits a record-high number of new students when just under 8,000 students begin their studies at the University after the summer holidays.

Guide to studies and admission

Studies

A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the Botanical Garden

Experience the garden in a new and enchanting way 4-16 August when its lake, paths and hiding places are transformed into the scene of Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream'.

Tristan Otto: The king of dinosaurs is in town

66 million years old, 4 metres high, 12 metres long and with almost all its terrifying teeth intact: Meet it at the Natural History Museum and get up close with one of the world's most complete Tyrannosaurus rex fossils.

The Chiquihuite Cave.

Stone tools move back the arrival of humans in America thousands of years

Findings of stone tools move back the first immigration of humans to America at least 15,000 years.

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6th best university in Europe

290 start-ups are established every year

DKK 5 is what Denmark gets back for each krone invested in the University

7,831 were on 28 July 2020 offered a place on an undergraduate programme at the University

37,500 students are enrolled

5,000 graduate every year

DKK 28 billion is the University’s annual contribution to the Danish economy

70% is how much the University has reduced its CO2 emissions since 2006