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samcheetah said:
well ME after reading your numerous posts stating that u guyz get paid for studying, im starting to like Denmark.
does this also apply to people from other parts of the world. if im not wrong i believe that u are doing you are an undergraduate student. do master students also get paid for studying? and what language is used in institutions there?
Both bachelor and master students are paid €600 per month.
But I don't think foregniers get paid to study here.
I know Denmark has an agreement with other Nordic countries about study exchange.
This means that for example Norwegians and Swedes can apply for an education in Denmark at the same terms as a Dane.
It can be hard to get into a Medical study in for example Norway, but in Denmark it is quite easy to get in at a medical study, so there is a very high percentage of Norwegian, Swedish and Icelandic medical students in Denmark.
This is starting to get a problem in Denmark, because students from the other Nordic countries take a lot of places from the Danish students in the medical studies and when they have finished their studies they move bac to their country. They are starting to worry that we will not have enough doctors in Denmark in the future because of this. It is alredy a problem and hospitals have started to hire foregin doctors to compensate.
The language used in the institutions is normally Danish, but books are mostly English, but a few institutions teach in English.
Danish is very similar to Swedish and Norwegian, so students from those countries can understand Danish. In Iceland they learn Danish in school, so they can also understand it.
If you come from other countries like Pakistan, I'm not sure it's very easy to come to study in Denmark.
I don't know how many foregneirs they accept and you will also have the language barrier allthough everyone in Denmark speaks english and most also speaks German.
It's probably easier to go to USA to study.
But when you look at the salaries, you should also consider the living costs and taxes at the same time.
The countries with the highest salaries are usally the same countries who have the highest living expenses.
Taxes in Denmark are among the highest in the world to cover for over high social expesnes.
The Economist made something called the BigMac index, which compares the price of a McDonalds BigMac burger around the world. This might sound funny, but they have found out that the price of a BigMac is one of the best indications of the living costs in a country.
You can read about the BigMac index here:
https://www.economist.com/markets/Bigmac/Index.cfm
You can't just compare salaries from one country to anoter without considering the living costs in the differeent countries at the same time.
The livng expenses in poor countries are often much lower than in rich countries with high salaries.
For example I'm sure it's cheaper to live in Italy than in Denmark, not that Italy is a poor country.