Aarhus University

Aarhus University is a public research university whose main campus lies in Aarhus, Denmark. It was founded on 11 September 1928 as University Studies in Jutland, a small teaching venture with 64 students, created largely because the University of Copenhagen was overcrowded after the First World War and because the city of Aarhus had campaigned since 1921 for a university of its own. Today it is the second oldest and second largest university in Denmark, organised since 2020 into five main academic areas: Arts, Natural Sciences, Technical Sciences, Health, and Business and Social Sciences. Its research ranges from the nanoscience of the Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center to brain research at MINDLAB, and it hosts fifteen Centres of Excellence funded by the Danish National Research Foundation. The chemist Jens Christian Skou carried out his Nobel Prize winning work on the sodium potassium ATPase pump there, and the university also runs several museums, including the Steno Museum and the Natural History Museum.