Aarhus University

Aarhus University
Aarhus Universitet
Seal of Aarhus University
Seal of Aarhus University
Latin: Universitas Arhusiensis[1]
MottoSolidum petit in profundis (Latin)
Motto in English
Seek a firm footing in the depths
TypePublic research university
Established1928
Academic affiliation
Coimbra Group
EUA
Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities
BudgetDKK 7 Billion (EUR 933 Million) (2021)[2]
RectorBrian Bech Nielsen
Administrative staff
8,300 (FTEs)
Students38,000 (2021)[3]
Location
Aarhus
,
Denmark Denmark

56°10′14″N 10°12′04″E / 56.17056°N 10.20111°E / 56.17056; 10.20111
Colours 
AU-Blue[4]
Websiteinternational.au.dk

Aarhus University (Danish: Aarhus Universitet, abbreviated AU) is a public research university with its main campus located in Aarhus, Denmark. It is the second largest and second oldest university in Denmark.[3][5][nb 1] The university is part of the Coimbra Group, the Guild, and Utrecht Network of European universities and is a member of the European University Association.[7]

The university was founded in Aarhus, Denmark, in 1928 and comprises five faculties in Arts, Natural Sciences, Technical Sciences, Health, and Business and Social Sciences and has a total of twenty-seven departments. It is home to over thirty internationally recognised research centres, including fifteen centres of excellence funded by the Danish National Research Foundation.

The university's alumni include Bjarne Stroustrup, the inventor of programming language C++; Queen Margrethe II of Denmark; King Frederik X of Denmark; and Anders Fogh Rasmussen, former prime minister of Denmark and a secretary general of NATO.

Nobel Laureate Jens Christian Skou (Chemistry, 1997)[8] conducted his groundbreaking work on the Na/K-ATPase in Aarhus and remained employed at the university until his retirement. Two other Nobel laureates, namely Trygve Haavelmo (Economics, 1989)[9] and Dale T. Mortensen (Economics, 2010),[10] were affiliated with the university.

  1. ^ "Search". Internet Archive.
  2. ^ Aarhus University. "Budget 2013" (PDF) (in Danish). Retrieved 2012-12-30.
  3. ^ a b "Key statistics for Aarhus University". international.au.dk. Aarhus University. Retrieved 2022-08-16.
  4. ^ "Colours".
  5. ^ Koncern-økonomi (2016-08-23). "Students - facts and figures". about.ku.dk. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
  6. ^ "universitet (Danmark)". Den Store Danske. lex.dk. 8 June 2009. Retrieved 2022-08-16.
  7. ^ "Coimbra group web page". Archived from the original on 2016-06-05.
  8. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1997". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
  9. ^ "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1989". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
  10. ^ "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2010". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2019-02-24.


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