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Copenhagen is Dope

Program Information

Copenhagen as your home, Europe as your classroom

Enhance your major, engage and immerse, broaden your horizons, and acquire valuable cross-cultural skills with other motivated, curious, and energetic students from American universities.

Academically Challenging Courses Taught in English

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Provider: DIS - Danish Institute for Study Abroad
Location(s): Copenhagen, Denmark
Year Founded:
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Review By:

Justin M. (Marketing, Providence College) on January 09, 2012

Overall Rating

Personal Information

* Start Date: 2011-08-21
* End Date: 2011-12-17
If you took classes at multiple universities, list those universities here: None.
How much international exposure did you have prior to this program? None

Review Your Program

* Overall educational experience

Academic rigor, intensity, resources, etc.

Workload was minimal but still very interesting and informative. More so than PC itself.

* Host Country Program Administration

On-site administration of your program

Hands on. Educational. Helpful staff all around.

* Housing:

* Food:

You get a 600 dollars stipend which is plenty to live off of.

* Social & Cultural Integration:

How integrated did you feel with the local culture?

Lots of clubbing which was awesome.

* Health Care:

How well were health issues addressed during the program?

* Safety:

Safest city ever.

* Home Institution Advising:

How well did Providence College prepare and support you for your time abroad?

Finances

* Money: How easily were you able to live on a student's budget?

(1 = not very easy/$200+ on food & personal expenses/week, 2.5 = $100/week, 5 = very easily/minimal cost)

Do you have any general money-saving tips for future study abroad participants? Go with at least 5,000

Language

* Did your program have a foreign language component? Yes
Language acquisition improvement?

Never really used it. People spole english

If applicable, to what degree did your living situation aid your language acquisition?

Other Program Information

* Where did you live?

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  • Other
* Who did you live with?

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  • Local Students
* Who did you take classes with?

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  • Americans

A Look Back

* What did you like most about the program?
  • Everything
* What could be improved?
  • Nothing
* If you could do it all over again, would you choose the same program? Yes
* What do you know now that you wish you knew before going on this program? Go to the Happy Pig when you get to Copenhagen.
* What did you gain/learn from your experience abroad? Was it worthwhile? Yes.