A master’s degree that offers the chance to be a student “digital nomad”, living and studying in multiple places around Europe, sounds too good to be true.
I certainly thought it was in March 2023, when I was accepted into a two-year Erasmus Mundus journalism programme that would see me live one year each in Denmark’s second-largest city, Aarhus, and in the Dutch capital of Amsterdam.
I was concerned about whether it was just good advertising, and whether I would feel isolated by moving from country to country.
But like everything in life, it is what you make of it.
The programme I did is a joint master’s in journalism, media and globalisation, with a specialisation in politics and communication.
It is one of 349 unique Erasmus Mundus master’s programmes that have been running since 2004. Students study on a rotational basis at different partner universities, between which the course content, teaching styles and quality of education varies wildly.
Some of the programmes offer m
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