The DIS program is located in Copenhagen, Denmark's capital and the largest city in Scandinavia. It has 1.5 million inhabitants, is the seat of Parliament and government and the center of Denmark's economic, scientific and cultural life. DIS is a specialized institution of higher education affiliated with the University of Copenhagen and recognized and supervised by the Danish Ministry of Education. DIS is open to students enrolled at Texas Tech University.
Admission is competitive.
Students must possess a cumulative 3.0 average and some courses will have certain required course prerequisites. Students are enrolled at Texas Tech in Affiliated Studies and the credit comes back as transfer credit, no grade. A normal course load at DIS is 15 credit hours, but 12 is the minimum. DIS combines academic classroom work with field study and study tours. These excursions allow students to experience, in the real world, what they are studying in the classroom.