More IT and engineering students offered places at Aarhus University
Aarhus University to admit slightly fewer students overall than last year, but significantly more on IT and engineering programmes. Many applicants have not been offered a place but have the opportunity to apply in the second round.
Last night, 7,441 applicants received the welcome news that they have been offered a place at Aarhus University. That’s two per cent fewer than last year, but on par with 2023.
“Many talented young people can now look froward to starting their university education. They’ve worked hard to get here, so we’re delighted that we can offer them a place at Aarhus University, where they’ll have the opportunity to immerse themselves in a subject they’re passionate about,” says Berit Eika.
The admissions figures reflect shifts in student intake across the university’s subject areas. This year, many more places have been offered to IT and engineering students, while fewer students have been admitted to a number of humanities and social science degree programmes.
IT programmes reach capacity
The Faculty of Natural Sciences has admitted seven per cent more students this year, with the increase mainly driven by three new English-taught IT programmes: Computer Science, Data Science and IT Product Development. The three programmes offered a total of 150 student places, all of which have been filled, leaving several hundred applicants disappointed:
“This illustrates the huge potential we have to attract applicants from both Denmark and abroad to a field where there is enormous demand for highly specialised labour. That’s why it makes little sense that here in Aarhus we’ve been given a lower cap on the number of international students than in other parts of the country. We could easily educate more of the employees that business and industry are crying out for,” explains Berit Eika.
Places still available on engineering programmes
Engineering admissions are also on the rise this year. The programmes in Electrical Power Engineering and Healthcare Technology Engineering are the main contributors to Aarhus University continuing its recent growth and offering 87 more places to engineering students this year than in 2024. And there is potential for more, as many of the university’s Bachelor of Engineering programmes still have places available.
Conversely, fewer student places have been offered on humanities and social science subjects than last year. This is primarily due to sector resizing, which is part of the latest higher education reform, and which means that Aarhus University has to cut almost ten per cent of its student places by 2030. These reductions particularly affect the faculties of Arts and Aarhus BSS, which remain the two largest subject areas in this year’s admissions, while the Faculty of Health is also admitting fewer students.
Sector resizing has also led to higher admission grade restrictions on several of the university’s degree programmes, and more programmes now have admission requirements than in previous years:
“It's entirely expected that grade requirements are rising now that we’re offering fewer student places. This also means that we’ve had to turn away more applicants than usual, but we still have places available, so I sincerely hope that many of the people who weren’t successful this time get in touch with our student advisers and find an alternative programme,” concludes Berit Eika.