Aarhus University, School of Business and Social Sciences

Aarhus BSS

Seal of Aarhus University
Latin: Universitas Aarhusiensis
Type	Business School
Established	2007 (1928)
Dean	Thomas Pallesen (dean of Aarhus BSS)
Academic staff	737
Students	16,000
Location	Aarhus and Herning, Denmark 56°09′N 10°13′E / 56.150°N 10.217°E / 56.150; 10.217
Affiliations	EUA
Website	bss.au.dk
Location in Denmark

The Aarhus University School of Business and Social Sciences (in short Aarhus BSS) is one of four main academic areas of Aarhus University with a campus in the city of Aarhus, Denmark. The school consists of seven departments: Economics and Business Economics, Management, Political Science, Law, Business Communication, Psychology and Behavioural Sciences and Department of Business Development and Technology (located in the city of Herning).

Aarhus BSS is a merger from 2007 and teaches programmes at Bachelor’s, Master and PhD level along with the MBA (Master of Business Administration), EMBA (Executive MBA) programmes and Summer University and Winter school courses. In 2010 Dale T. Mortensen, a Niels Bohr Visiting Professor at Aarhus University, received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences together with his colleagues Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides.

The history of the Aarhus BSS is both old and new. On 1 January 2007, Aarhus School of Business (ASB or in Danish: Handelshøjskolen) merged with Aarhus University to become part of Aarhus University and in 2011 the Aarhus School of Business and Faculty of Social Sciences at Aarhus University were merged under the name of Aarhus University, School of Business and Social Sciences. Aarhus School of Business was founded in 1939, and the Faculty of Social Sciences, consisting of several departments and faculties established between 1936 and 1969.

Aarhus School of Business's predecessor, The Jutland Business School (Den Jyske Handelshøjskole, DJH), has a somewhat more extensive history. Already in the late 1800s, DJH provided business programmes to young people from Jutland who wished to follow studies within business, economics and trade. Only when Aarhus School of Business was founded in 1939 did it become the academic institution that it was known as today.[1]

Aarhus School of Business has continually grown since its founding. In 1968 Aarhus School of Business moved from the original location downtown Aarhus to the yellow and red brick buildings which since then have provided the setting for the outstanding research and teaching that Aarhus School of Business stood for.

After the 2011 merger the school now has around 16,000 students, 737 academic staff, including 223 PhD students,^[3] making it one of the largest business schools in Europe.