University of Copenhagen

University of Copenhagen ranks 8 in Europe and 46 in the World

With over 37,000 students and more than 7,000 employees, the University of Copenhagen is the largest institution of research and education in Denmark. The purpose of the University – to quote the University Statute – is to ’conduct research and provide further education to the highest academic level. Approximately one hundred different institutes, departments, laboratories, centres, museums, etc., form the nucleus of the University, where professors, lecturers and other academic staff, as well as most of the technical and administrative personnel, carry out their daily work, and where teaching takes place. These activities take place in various environments ranging from the plant world of the Botanical Gardens, through high-technology laboratories and auditoriums, to the historic buildings and lecture rooms of Frue Plads and other locations. On 1 January 2007, the University merged with The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University and The Danish University of Pharmaceutical Sciences. The two universities are now faculties at the University of Copenhagen. In the most recent Academic Ranking of World Universities the University of Copenhagen ranks 8 in Europe and 46 in the World. Every year, international surveys are published in the attempt to determine the ranking of universities around the world. The methodology in the rankings vary, but often include peer reviews, research articles published in important research magazines, number of nobelprizes won etc. The University of Copenhagen is usually ranked as the overall best university in Denmark and Scandinavia.