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Academic Program

The Copenhagen program is ideal for students in graduate and undergraduate business programs, as well as undergraduate students majoring in economics or international studies with a business focus. The program allows students to study business, economics, and related areas, in English, in a setting rich in international diversity (both in the student body and the faculty).

The CBS offers a traditional business curriculum (accounting, business law, finance, information technology, management, marketing, organization, strategy, and more), economics courses, and limited offerings in American studies, area studies, communication, languages, and political science. In addition to these fields, graduate students may also take courses in computer science, corporate social responsibility, development, human resource management, and innovation.

Participants are integrated into the regular academic program of the CBS, alongside Danish and other international students. This international diversity is of particular importance, too, since the CBS curriculum relies heavily on group work and projects. Thus, participants experience an excellent simulation of the cross-cultural and group dynamics that are operative in today's competitive and increasingly globalized world of business. In addition, this mix of backgrounds makes for a very interesting and enriching social scene, augmented by a series of academic and extracurricular functions hosted by the CBS throughout each term.

Graduate Internships

CBS also offers an internship program for graduate students each fall semester. The program focuses on international entrepreneurship, matching graduate participants with companies that have offices in Copenhagen. The internship program is competitive, and not all applicants are accepted (though acceptance for the internship has no bearing on acceptance into the academic exchange program). Graduate students interested in the internship program should contact Leslie Lundborg (leslie.lundborg@ous.edu) as early as possible, for more information. Internship applicants should discuss applicability of the internship to their home university degree carefully with their academic adviser.

Host University Description: Copenhagen Business School

Established in 1917, the Copenhagen Business School enrolls approximately 15,000 students, one-third of them at the graduate level, making the CBS one of the three largest business schools in northern Europe. Classes are held at several locations throughout the city. The school's state-of-the-art library is well equipped with a wide range of publications and electronic media. Oregon students are integrated into a large international student population at the CBS.

Host University Website:

For general information on the Copenhagen Business School, see http://www.cbs.dk/cbs_international.

Registration and Credits

Students participating in this program will be registered at their home university in Oregon and will receive home campus credits for courses taken at the Copenhagen Business School. Students’ course work will be reviewed and evaluated by appropriate academic departments at their home institutions. Students must keep detailed records of course outlines, reading lists, exam results, and other work completed to facilitate accurate evaluation by their home university academic departments.

Students are advised to consult with their academic advisor about their plans to study in the Denmark program. Students wishing to earn major or minor credits for courses taken at the Copenhagen Business School are strongly advised to be in frequent communication with their advisor to determine what’s possible.

Because of the nature of this program, courses and credits are applied after completion of the program.

Because the CBS uses a fairly straightforward and predictable system of awarding credits, students can determine the number of credits they will earn in advance. In the summer program, each student takes two CBS courses, and in the fall and spring semesters, each student takes four CBS courses. Almost all CBS courses are worth 5-6 term credits in Oregon, with the only exceptions being courses that receive more or less than the standard 7.5 ECTS (European system) credits on the Danish transcript. Therefore, OUS participants generally earn 10-12 term credits in the summer program, and 20-24 term credits in either semester program. However, it is imperative that interested students discuss their plan of study and the applicability of CBS courses toward their home campus degree carefully with an academic adviser in their department before application.

Academic Calendar

Dates for 2008-09 are as follows (dates for 2009-2010 will be similar):

• Summer: June 26 to August 9, 2008
• Fall: August 24 to December 22, 2008
• Spring: January 25 to June 19, 2009

Campus Contacts

Click on the name of your University for contact information.

* Also serves as the program Coordinator/Assistant.

Downloads

• Program Application
• Denmark Program Handbook
• Denmark Slideshow

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