By Hans Plauborg
hhp@adm.au.dk
The number of international students at Aarhus University just keeps on growing and growing. And the increase applies to exchange students, full degree students and PhD scholars alike. The proportion of exchange students and full degree students has risen from 6 per cent in 2005 to more than 13 per cent today; while the proportion of international PhD scholars is now nearly 20 per cent compared with only 9 per cent in 2005. The science subjects and agricultural sciences in particular are proving attractive for international PhD scholars. The Faculty of Agricultural Sciences now has just as many international PhD scholars as Danish PhD scholars.
The number of exchange students studying business and social sciences is increasing particularly fast. "This is an international trend – students of business and social sciences tend to be more mobile than other students," says Mette Brandenborg, head of section at Aarhus University’s International Cent
You might be surprised to learn that the second most popular subject among exchange students at Aarhus University is law. The study of law is normally tied to the national legal and court systems of individual countries, so students of law are not known for being particularly mobile.
"There are quite a lot of exchange students studying law in Aarhus because the School of Law runs a variety of popular courses in international law. This has encouraged a number of students from Australia and elsewhere to come to Århus to study law," says Mette Brandenborg.
