Education courses include classroom education for special students, cultural encounters and cultural influences, and, global environment and survival issues. Communications courses include news production, multimedia productions, Internet and web design, mass communications, and journalistic ethics. All students will take either Swedish language, Culture and Society, or Swedish Language, Culture and Mass Media. J nk ping University has about 6,000 students in new facilities with the latest technology. Student services include email and web access, on-line library facilities, discounts for travel and a wide range of student activities.
Accommodations are apartment style with single rooms and shared cooking facilities.
International and Swedish students live in an apartment complex about three miles from the University with bus service every ten minutes. J nk ping is a community of about 120,000 located on a lake with many waterfront activities in the summer. Swedish winters are cold with snow but all apartments and buildings have central heating. J nk ping is about three hours by train from Stockholm from which one can do a day trip or longer across the Baltic to Helsinki, Finland. J nk ping is only about two hours by train from Copenhagen, Denmark's capital.