Aarhus University is the largest institution of higher education in Denmark, with 44,500 students (5,000 of whom are foreign) and 6,000 academic staff. It is also the second-oldest.
Aarhus has produced a Nobel Prize Laureate in chemistry and another in economics. The classic architecture of its University Park campus has become iconic in Danish architecture. The school focuses on four broad areas: art, science and technology, health and business, and social science.
Aarhus University operates out of campuses in Aarhus, Copenhagen, and Herning. The city of Aarhus is located on the mainland of Europe—what one might call the the “southernmost tip of Scandinavia”—which makes the university an ideal bridge between the Nordic countries and the rest of Europe.
Several major rankings have recognized Aarhus University’s recent rise to prominence. The 2013 National Taiwan University Rankings considered it the #86 best university in the world, while the Leiden Ranking placed it at #77.
The school has produced many successful individuals, such as Bjarne Stroustrup, the designer of the C++ computer program, and Anders Fogh Rasmussen, former Prime Minister of Denmark.
