Aarhus University
Location: Aarhus, Denmark
Website: www.au.dk/exchange
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 AU support website.
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 course catalogue, 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 (7.5 UVic units): 30 ECTS per term at AU
*Exchange students must register in at least 25 ECTS per term to meet Danish immigration requirements.
Course Evaluations at UVic:
- Before departure, UVic students will be able to submit exchange courses to UVic for evaluation. The results will indicate how many UVic units each exchange course is worth, as well as the course equivalency.
- Students must use the evaluation results to ensure their exchange courses credits add up to the equivalent UVic units. The total number of units for each exchange term should be 4.5 UVic units for part-time exchange or 7.5 UVic units for full-time exchange.
- This course evaluation process will be made available and explained in detail during the pre-departure session in early October for Spring exchange terms and in late March for Fall exchange terms. Evaluations take 2-6 weeks to complete and will be emailed to students.
- Course evaluations results are tentative until the end of the exchange term, when a second, final evaluation is conducted by OREM using the students’ exchange transcript, and the results are applied to their UVic record.
Exchange credit history
- Click here to check out the exchange credit history of courses that have been previously evaluated by UVic for this host university.
- Students are not limited to this list when selecting courses for their upcoming exchange and should consult the host university’s course catalogue for a full list of offerings.
- Important note: this document is a guide only and previously evaluated courses are not guaranteed to be evaluated in the same way in the future.
- After being accepted into the ICS Exchange Program, students will have the chance to submit exchange courses to UVic for evaluation. The results will provide updated unit and credit equivalency information.
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 exchange student housing resource website
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 Prepare for your arrival 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 online Green Guide resource specifically for incoming students to AU. This guide details actionable tips for arriving, settling in and traveling around.
- AU also has a campus-wide Green guide compiling suggestions for how the university community can contribute to the climate-friendly solutions being implemented around the campus.
- Organisation and Networks: 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.