Egmont H. Petersens Kollegium

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Egmont H. Petersens Kollegium is a hall of residence in Copenhagen with rooms for 492 students, placed at Fælledparken. Egmont H. Petersen was the founder of the Egmont media group.

Egmont is made up of three buildings, "Old", "Middle" and "New", referring to the order in which they were built. Each building have eight floors (of which two of the ground floors are used by the administration and a ballroom).

Egmont was inaugurated May 16th 1957, after four years of construction work. In the early years, the students was evicted in the summer holiday and the buildings was used as a hotel.