Record number of applicants for LIFE’s MSc programmes - 13.04.2011

Never before have so many Danish and European students applied for admission to LIFE’s MSc programmes as this year. This is clear already now, just a few days after the expiry of the deadline for applications for LIFE’s MSc programmes that start on 1 September 2011.

 

845 students, or 36% more than last year’s record number of 621 applicants, have applied for LIFE’s MSc programmes this year.

Associate Dean of Education, Grete Bertelsen is very pleased:

” ”I am delighted to see that so many young people wish to study at LIFE. We are very pleased to see that our MSc programmes are attractive. This strengthens the study environment and further enhances the quality of our programmes”.

 

”I think that there are many factors that contribute to the record number of applicants this year. Our international communication strategy which Communication and Study and Students’ Affairs launched a few year ago seem to succeed in recruiting international students. More and more or our students and staff are aware of their role as ambassadors for LIFE when they go abroad or go back home. It appears that an increasing number of the students who have been here at LIFE as exchange students are now applying for admission to a full MSc programme at LIFE. And finally we can see that our many online activities have created much traffic and generated many inquiries”, says Grete Bertelsen and she continues:

 

” In relation to Nordic students, it looks as if the extensive communication activities in the fields of food and health at LIFE are now bearing fruit. Examples of this are the (Danish) websites www.FOODofLIFE.dk and www.idegryden.dk. The number of applicants for the food science and nutrition programmes have thus more than doubled this year compared to recent years. I am very pleased to note that the efforts to make our research and education more visible yield these positive results.”

 

In addition to the food and nutrition programmes, in particular programmes related to animals and the landscape architecture and forestry programmes have experienced an increase in the number of applications.

 

The applicant numbers for all programmes may, however, improve even further when applicants from outside EU/EØS are included. This is not the case yet.