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by psykotic 5193 days ago
> Yes, but for 1 DTU there are plenty of other Universities aiming only at big numbers of students.

Plenty? There aren't more than a handful of Danish universities in total. The only one that isn't at a high international level is Roskilde, and its student population is the smallest in the country by a wide margin. The two largest by number of students, Aarhus University (where I went) and Copenhagen University, are well into the world's top 50 on international rankings, and climbing. DTU is lower in overall rank but near the top in engineering. Aalborg is still under-ranked internationally, as you can tell by the fact that it's jumped a hundred spots on average each year in the QS rankings for the last several years, but everyone in Denmark knows it's a great school for engineering, rivaling and possibly surpassing DTU in education if not yet in research. SDU is in a solid third place after AU and KU as a well-rounded university; its departments are smaller in size, but many are packed with strong faculty.