Aarhus University
Location: Aarhus, Denmark
Website:
Language of instruction: English and Danish (knowledge of Danish is not required to study at AU)
Terms: Fall semester (September - January) // Spring semester (February - June)
Highlights
- Aarhus University is the second largest university in Denmark with 40,000 students
- A green campus, often voted one of the most beautiful university campuses in the world
- Safe, secure, and bike-friendly. Biking is the preferred method of transportation for students!
- The people of Aarhus are closely connected to their university, as the campus is located in the centre of town
- Aarhus is a young and vibrant university city known as Denmark's gastronomic capital and with one of Denmark’s best music and entertainment scenes
- Housing is much easier to find in Aarhus than in a major city like Copenhagen
- Copenhagen is only three hours away by train
Accessibility
- In Denmark, services to students with disabilities is provided by a national special educational support program (SPS), as part of the Danish healthcare system. Unfortunately, exchange students are not covered by this program. This means that any service that costs money is not available for exchange students. Students needing those services will be required to pay for and/or arrange those services themselves.
- Students who have been approved for academic accommodations for e.g. extended exam time can, however, apply to their AU Study Board to have those same accommodations apply at AU. They are advised to contact their AU academic coordinator, who will be able to assist them with all issues related to their studies at AU.
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For more information, visit the .
Area of study
- Aesthetics and Culture
- Anthropology
- Arab and Islamic Studies
- Archaeology
- Art History
- Biology
- Brazilian Studies
- Business and Economics
- Chemistry and Medicinal Chemistry
- Chinese Studies
- Classical Languages
- Comparative Literature
- Computer Science, IT Product Development and Bioinformatics
- Eastern European Studies
- Education
- Engineering
- English
- European Studies
- French Studies
- German Studies
- History
- Information and Media Studies
- International Studies
- Japanese Studies
- Journalism and Media
- Latin America Studies
- Law
- Linguistics
- Mathematics, Statistics and Data Science
- Media Studies
- Molecular Biology
- Music
- Philosophy
- Physics and Astronomy
- Political Science
- Psychology
- Scandinavian Languages and Literature
- South Asian Studies
- Spanish Studies
- Sports Science
Course catalogue
- Please see , which can be filtered for courses open to exchange students and taught in English. Be sure to add your year of study as the final filter!
Credits
Credits at AU:
- Full-time option: 30 ECTS per term at AU*, which is roughly equal to 7.5 UVic units
*Exchange students must register in at least 25 ECTS per term to meet Danish immigration requirements.
Course Evaluations at UVic:
- Once accepted, UVic exchange students will be able to submit AU courses to UVic for evaluation. The results will indicate how many UVic units each AU course is worth, as well as the course equivalency.
- Students must use the evaluation results to ensure their AU courses credits add up to the equivalent UVic units.
- This evaluation process opens in late September for Spring exchange terms and in late March for Fall exchange terms. Evaluations take 4-6 weeks for results to be made available.
- Course evaluations results are tentative until the end of the exchange term, when a final evaluation is conducted by UVic Records using your AU transcript, and the results are applied to your UVic transcript.
Exchange credit history
- See the exchange credit history listing of courses that have been previously evaluated from the University of Aarhus. Note that this is a guide only, and not a guarantee that your courses would be evaluated in the same way.
Housing
- On-campus housing: Unavailable
- Off-campus housing: Available
- Various options for off-campus housing are available and more information can be found on their
Medical Insurance, Immigration & Arrival
- As a non-EU/EEA citizen, you must apply for a residence permit for studies from the Danish Agency for International Recruitment and Integration (SIRI) before you arrive in Denmark. You will receive information from AU on how to apply after admission to AU.
- Find more information on living in Denmark at AU's page.
SDGs-in-Action
Add a United Nations CIFAL qualification to your international experience (and your CV!) by taking the SDGs-In-Action challenge. Below are resources and some of the many ways to get involved at Aarhus University.
- Green Guide: Aarhus University (AU) has an . This guide details actionable tips for arriving, settling in and traveling around.
- AU also has a compiling suggestions for how the university community can contribute to the climate-friendly solutions being implemented around the campus.
- : get connected! Aarhus University has compiled a list of organisations and collaborators that are involved in sustainability efforts. Some of the great resources here include the Nordic Sustainable Campus Network, the AU Garden, or the AU Climate Strategy working Group.