Mission statement

Aalborg University will contribute to the pool of knowledge of the global society as well as the prosperity, welfare, and cultural development of the Danish society. This will be achieved through research, research-based education, and the exchange of knowledge with our surrounding society – and always up to the highest international standard. Aalborg University perceives itself as an internationally oriented network university based in Aalborg and with campuses in Copenhagen and Esbjerg.

Aalborg University has a special mission within:

PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING

Aalborg University will secure close interaction between theory and practice, thus bridging the gap between the university and the surrounding society. We will achieve this through further developing and implementing the problem-based project model.

INTERDISCPLINARITY

Aalborg University will generate new knowledge and understanding through interaction across professional and academic fields as well as across the fields of basic and applied research. INNOVATION

The university will function as a knowledge-generating and culture-bearing institution that contributes to technological, economic, social, and cultural innovation in our surrounding society through entrepreneurship and the communication and exchange of knowledge.

For a complete list of programmes taught in English, please visit: https://www.studyguide.aau.dk/

Doctoral Schools and PhD courses are available at:

Humanities: https://www.phd.hum.aau.dk/

Engineering and Science: https://www.phd.teknat.aau.dk/

Medicine: https://www.phd.medicine.aau.dk/

Social Sciences: https://www.en.fak.samf.aau.dk/phd/

IT and Design: https://www.phd.tech.aau.dk/