The University of Aarhus is a university based in Århus, Denmark.

History

It was founded in 1928 as University Teaching in Jutland in classrooms rented from the Technical College and a teaching corps consisting of one professor of philosophy and four Readers of Danish, English, German and French. Until then the University of Copenhagen was the only university in Denmark. Use of the name "The University of Aarhus" began in 1933.

The university is organised in five faculties:

The Faculty of Arts, recently renamed the Faculty of Humanities, has offered courses right from the beginning in 1928.

In 1933 the Faculty of Medicine began its courses in basic medical subjects. When the dental school was included in 1992 the name was changed to the Faculty of Health Sciences.

The Faculty of Economics and Law was established in 1936. The name was changed to the Faculty of Social Sciences when Political Science and Psychology were added.

From 1938 - 1940 Theodor Geiger was professor of sociology at the university -- Denmark's first ever professor of sociology.

The Faculty of Theology was established in 1942. Courses in theology had been offered from 1932, being previously taught at the Faculty of Arts.

The Faculty of Science was established in 1954 by moving Physics and Chemistry from the Faculty of Medicine and Geography from the Faculty of Arts. Mathematics was established as a new subject, followed by Biology and Geology.

In 1997 professor Jens Christian Skou received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his discovery of the sodium-potassium pump.

Enrollment

In 1999 the number of students passed 20,000 students and is still growing. Each year more than 350 international exchange students come to the University of Aarhus to study for one or two semesters.

Courses

It has both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the following subjects:

• Aesthetic Subjects
• Archaeology
• Biology
• Chemistry
• Chinese
• Classical Philology
• Comparative Religion
• Computer Science
• Dentistry
• Economics
• Ethnography
• Geology
• Greek
• History
• History of Ideas
• Indian Philology
• Information Science
• Japanese
• Latin
• Law
• Linguistics
• Management
• Mathematical Economics
• Mathematics
• Media Science
• Medicine
• Modern Languages
• Nanotechnology
• Philosophy
• Physics
• Political Science
• Psychology
• Scandinavian Studies
• Semitic Philology
• Sports Science
• Statistics
• The Study of Religion
• Theology

Partner Universities

• Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
• member of the Coimbra Group

External link

• University of Aarhus