The total intake of new students at AU Herning has been calculated, and this year AU Herning is seeing the largest increase of students on the BDE programme and the English-language BSc in Economics and Business Administration. This year’s intake of new full-time students roughly corresponds to last year’s intake.

There is a natural and healthy competitive relationship between the larger and minor cities in Central and Western Jutland, but the cities need to work together in contributing to the common cause of raising the level of the education in the area. It is a prerequisite for securing the positive development of our region.

Sofie Carsten Nielsen, the Danish Minister for Higher Education and Science, will give the opening speech at a conference at Aarhus University’s department in Herning on how AU Herning can contribute to strengthening Central and Western Jutland.

Professor (LLD) Edward Canuel, an American diplomat and professor at the U.S. Military Academy (West Point) in New York, has been appointed honorary professor at Aarhus University. His focus: comparative law and socio-economic legal studies, with special emphasis on the Arctic. Edward’s inaugural lecture will take place on 24 October.