Jacob Christensen

Copenhagen University released the application numbers for the academic year 2007-2008 earlier today.

The overall number of applications are up slightly from 9662 to 9818 (1st priority), 1st priority applications at the Faculty of Social Sciences are down slightly from 1742 to 1732 while 1st priority applications for the programme in political science are down from 388 to 346.

I don’t know how many places, Copenhagen U offer in PolSci (250??) but I don’t think the drop would be a cause for concern for the Department of Political Science.

Still, it will be interesting to see the final numbers for all universities which will be published on 28 July.

In comparison: Application numbers are up for Law, Economics, Psychology and Anthropology while Sociology seems to be facing a crisis in attracting students.

New York Times tells us that whatever the merits of Harry Potter, the decline in reading among older children has continued. Btw, did you know that ten-year-olds play golf these days?

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