"Our goal at Arts is to contribute to local and global cultural, social and economic development which improves people’s lives through the high quality of our research and teaching activities and of our researcher talent development and knowledge exchange programmes."

Mette Thunø, Dean

We strive to send our graduates out into the world with the theoretical, methodological and communicative ballast to set ambitious goals, ask good questions, find sustainable answers, and apply their knowledge productively. Thanks to the language skills and cultural insight they gain at Arts, our graduates have an international perspective, and they are at home in the globalised world of today.

The Faculty of Arts encompasses many distinct fields of inquiry which are joined by interdisciplinary ties and a shared goal: to produce knowledge which allows us to act in the best interest of our society, guided by the values of welfare, sustainability and an active civil society.

The faculty has two campuses: the Aarhus campus in the heart of Aarhus, Denmark’s second-largest city and the regional capital of the Jutland peninsula, and the Emdrup campus outside of Copenhagen, close to the government agencies which Arts advises and serves.

Northern Europe's largest

Largest faculty of its kind in Northern Europe Arts has an annual budget of DKK 1bn, 800 academic staff, 350 PhD students, 12,500 BA and MA students, and 2,500 students following continuing/further education programmes.