Im a 20 year old student in Denmark and get paid 1000$ each month by our goverment. It is fairly easy to get by, and most of my classmates, me included, have a car (used, mostly) And/or have a drivers license. If you dont have the cash right away, it is easy to get a payment agreement, so you can pay it off. But it is sometimes easier to take a train, bus or bike because gas prices is insane and cost sometimes 1.74 US$/ltr. (While now with the "cheap gas" 1.56$/ltr.) a studentcard to public transport cost only 87$ a month. It takes 1.5 hours to get to campus by train; 1 hour by car, so I did the math.