Emdrup Campus

Stine Harrekilde, Steven Møller, Anna Magdalene May and Anders Laustdal. They’re all 3rd-semester students of Education Science, as well as being mentors for the first-year students.

Where can you get a cheap lunch and coffee on campus or nearby?
The meals in the campus canteen are actually good and cheap because you can weigh your food. Lots of people bring instant coffee with them and just boil a kettle in one of the many kitchenettes on campus.

Where can you find events on campus?
We could actually do with a joint noticeboard on campus. But check out BlackBoard and the Facebook group for your year group.

Where can you get cheap booze?
In our Friday bar, called “Bar Bund”. It’s open every Friday, it’s run by students, and it’s cheap. It’s also a great place to do a bit of reading between lectures or play games. Check out the bar's site on Facebook.

Where are the best places for in-depth study and swotting for exams?
The silent reading room in the library in building D is a good place to sit and read. There is also seating on the three floors of building D surrounding the lecture theatre, and this is often a quiet place to sit when nothing is going on in the lecture theatre.

Don’t miss out on:
The first party of the semester for all students on campus – including Master’s degree students. It’s a really big event with a live concert, and it’s a good way to mingle with the other students.

Your life as a student is not complete without:
You need to be enthusiastic, and it’s great to have a group so you can discuss the texts presented in the teaching – and talk about student life in general. It’s nice to have people to talk to if you’re feeing a bit below par – people whose lecture notes you can borrow if you can’t make it to a lecture, for instance. It’s a good idea to get a copy of the Sociological Encyclopedia of Life.

When student life gets tough, you can find help here:
The Student Counselling Office on the ground floor of building D is a great place to go if you have any practical questions. But otherwise it’s a good idea to have a busy social life – for instance at Bar Bund, where you will definitely find someone who can help you.

One final piece of good advice:
Stay on campus after teaching instead of going home. We think that’s a good tip for all students. The campus can be pretty devoid of life sometimes, but there’s plenty of opportunity to create our own activities: football competitions, conferences and other events, for instance. So stay on campus and help to bring the place alive.

Emdrup Campus: From Nazi school to school of education

The campus is in Emdrup in the north-western part of Copenhagen, and is home to the Department of Education (which used to be called Denmark’s School of Education) as well as a number of research centres which joined the AU family back in 2007. But the history of these buildings goes back much further than that. In the 19th century Emdrupborg was a manor house, but it later became what was known as a “free and popular college of education for future teachers”.

Campus Herning

Wojciech Tomasz Zmijski from Poland is a sixth-semester BSc(B) student of International Business. And Ileana Cocos from Moldavia is a fourth-semester MSc student of Marketing and Business Innovation.

Where can you get a cheap lunch and coffee on campus or nearby?
Wojciech: I recommend that you get something downtown and bring it with you. The best place to eat is a small restaurant called Karma, which has good food and offers a student discount.

Ileana: You can get lunch and coffee in the canteen. But it’s also worth finding out which days have evening teaching. When I was studying for my exams and was on campus 24/7 last year, I found out that you could get cheap coffee and cake on Wednesday evenings when there were evening classes. But otherwise I brew my own coffee and bring it with me.

Where can you find events on campus?
Wojciech: Check Facebook. The Birk Campus group, for instance. This is where you can find events at Studenter Huset and all round campus.

Ileana: Keep an eye on the noticeboards on the corridors, and remember to check out groups such as SAA, Birk Campus and Studenter Huset on Facebook.

Where can you get cheap booze?
Wojciech: Studenter Huset is the nearest if you live in a hall of residence on campus. There’s a good atmosphere, but also very good prices.

Ileana: Studenter Huset has special offers on Tuesdays and Thursdays. There’s also a Friday bar every week at about mid-day, offering a variety of events.

Where are the best places for in-depth study and swotting for exams?
Wojciech: The library is the best place for people who need silence, but I prefer to study in one of the vacant classrooms.

Ileana: In the evenings the university is the quietest place you can find, and you have all the books to yourself.

Don’t miss out on:
Wojciech and Ileana: You should definitely keep an eye on the events organised by the SAA (the Student Activity Association). Nor do you want to miss the Tour de Chambre, which is the first party on campus. It’s like a welcome for all new students.

Your life as a student is not complete without:
Wojciech: Taking part in at least one Friday bar.  

Ileana: At least one all-nighter at the university studying for your exams. This year the students even brought sleeping bags with them and spent up to two or three nights in a row at the university, preparing for projects and exams.

When student life gets tough, you can find help here:
Wojciech: You can always talk to the teachers. Our campus is smaller than the Aarhus campus, but that makes it a very cosy kind of place.

Ileana: There are buddies, counsellors and tutors. Many of them are students themselves, so they know exactly what you’re going through. I also think the teachers are good to talk to.

One final piece of good advice:
Wojciech: Herning is the best place to study. You won’t regret it. See you there!

Ileana: Get a good social life. Everyone else probably feels just as lonely as you do, and it’s much easier to be a student when you’ve got some friends.

Campus Herning: The newest department at AU

In 2006 the HIH School of Business and Engineering merged with AU, and in April 2013 this became a new AU department under the main academic area called Business and Social Sciences.

The department is based in Birk a couple of kilometres outside Herning.

The building was constructed in 1995 and was designed by the Danish architect Henning Larsen. It’s not far from Ingvar Cronhammer’s enormous sculpture called “Elia”

Campus Aarhus

Trine Toft Henriksen, who is about to start her 5th semester studying Scandinavian Languages and Literature, and Rasmus Klose Jensen, who has just finished his 8th semester studying Medicine. They both live in halls of residence in the University Park.

Where can you get a cheap lunch and coffee on campus or nearby?
The Mathematics Canteen does a good lunch. The State and University Library is also a good option.

Where can you find events on campus?
Facebook. Your own study group and the Friday bar groups. You can also keep up to date with what’s going on in “Efor”. But just keep your ears open: the grapevine is pretty effective, and aoa.dk is a good place to find out what’s going on in town.

Where can you get cheap booze?
Go on a pub crawl to various Friday bars. It’s fun to see what the other bars are getting up to. The bar at the Department of Theology is good, and the bar at the Department of Medicine is great fun – people often end up jumping up and down on the tables.

Where are the best places for in-depth study and swotting for exams?
The reading room at the State and University Library. It’s really quiet – just like a library should be. There are good reading rooms in the Nobel Park, too – some of them are really high up with a great view of the city, and they’re really quiet too.

Don’t miss out on:
The AU Boat Race and Denmark’s Biggest Friday Bar and Sports Day. You can’t miss them. There are huge crowds of people, and the atmosphere at the Boat Race is fantastic because most people have no more teaching by then. The Uni Bar is also a fun place to hang out. You can play games here – there’s a pretty good selection.

Your life as a student is not complete without:
Trying out plenty of different Friday bars. You shouldn’t just stick with your own bar – they vary a lot in terms of atmosphere and level of ambition.

When student life gets tough, you can find help here:
The student vicar is good - he helped a friend of mine, and I went to a presentation he gave at one point. He seemed like a pretty cool dude. You can also talk to a psychologist, and there are courses for people who suffer from exam phobia. It helped us to talk to our fellow students – everyone agrees that being a student can be pretty stressful. And it’s a good idea to find some study partners.

One final piece of good advice:
A good social life helps a lot, so make sure you take part in plenty of activities. And talk to people from other courses – it’s a good idea to get some perspective on your own course.

Aarhus Campus: World-famous yellow bricks

Aarhus University was founded in 1928, when it was known as “University Teaching in Jutland”. It was based in various premises, including a building on Nørre Allé. In 1933 the first university building was opened – this is now building 1340, the home of the Department of Psychology. The distinctive yellow-brick campus buildings surrounding the University Park were designed by C.F. Møller.

On 31 October 1941 halls of residence 4 and 5 and part of the main building in the University Park were bombed by the RAF. The resistance movement in Jutland had asked the RAF to do this because the buildings were being used by the Gestapo as their headquarters in Jutland.

In 2007 Aarhus Campus was expanded following the merger with the Aarhus School of Business on Fuglesangs Allé. Aarhus Campus also includes buildings in the Nobel Park, Trøjborg, Katrinebjerg, Dalgas Avenue and Moesgård.

Read more: au.dk/uhu/velkommen (In Danish)