Aarhus University

Aarhus University

Aarhus Universitet
Seal of Aarhus University
Latin: Universitas Aarhusiensis
Motto	Solidum petit in profundis (Latin)
Motto in English	We seek solid ground in the depths
Type	Public university
Established	1928
Budget	DKK 6.347 Billion ($1.124 Billion) (2013)
Rector	Brian Bech Nielsen
Administrative staff	11,550
Students	44,500
Undergraduates	17,504
Postgraduates	16,395
Location	Aarhus, Denmark
Affiliations	EUA
Website	www.au.dk

Aarhus University (Danish: Aarhus Universitet, abbreviated AU) is a prestigious public university located in Aarhus, Denmark. Founded in 1928, it is Denmark's second oldest university and the largest, with a total of 44,500 enrolled students as of 1 January 2013, after a merger with Aarhus School of Engineering. In most prestigious ranking lists of the world's best universities, Aarhus University is placed in the top 100. The university belongs to the Coimbra Group of European universities. The business school within Aarhus University, called Aarhus BSS, holds the EFMD (European Foundation for Management Development) Equis accreditation, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and the Association of MBAs (AMBA). This makes the business school of Aarhus University one of the few in the world to have the so-called Triple Crown accreditations.

Denmark's first professor of sociology was a member of the faculty of Aarhus University (Theodor Geiger, from 1938–1952), and in 1997 Professor Jens Christian Skou received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the sodium-potassium pump. In 2010, Dale T. Mortensen, a Niels Bohr Visiting Professor at Aarhus University, received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences together with his colleagues Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides.