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VIA University College is one of eight new regional organizations of different study sites in Denmark offering bachelor

Bachelor

A bachelor is a man above the age of majority who has never been married . Unlike his female counterpart, the spinster, a bachelor may have had children...

 courses of all kinds in all of Central Denmark Region.

It was established in January 2008. From January 2008 all VIA medium higher education in the Central Region, which previously came under CVU'erne (Center for Higher Education). VIA University College is Denmark's third largest educational institution after Copenhagen University and Aarhus University.

VIA has approximately 2,000 employees and 20,000 students. VIA operates within the pedagogical and social professional, the health professional and the technical-commercial area.

Overall VIA offers over 50 higher education in Danish

Danish language

Danish is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in the country of Denmark. It is also spoken by 50,000 Germans of Danish ethnicity in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, where it holds the status of minority language...

 or sometimes in English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

, with vocational education and participating in various research and development projects.

VIA is headquartered in Aarhus

Aarhus

Aarhus or Århus is the second-largest city in Denmark. The principal port of Denmark, Aarhus is on the east side of the peninsula of Jutland in the geographical center of Denmark...

, but the activities anchored on seven campuses spread over 39 locations throughout the region.

VIA's annual turnover is 1.2 billion DKK.

Campus Horsens

Campus Horsens is one of seven campuses in Region Midtjylland, which is the area VIA University College covers.

The Campus in Horsens holds most of the engineering, the technical and the business programmes of VIA University College, but soon Danish programmes in nursing and in pedagogy will also be present at Campus adding to the professional multiplicity.

The increasing campus population is now around 2,800 students – of whom approx. half are international students coming from more than 40 different countries.

The new student housing placed directly on Campus contributes to the pulse here, as does the Student Bar, social activities and group work after classes.

Above Campus Horsens towers the newly built 8,000 m2 Vitus Bering Innovation Park. The VBI Park also plays an important role in the interaction between the programmes and the companies that employ the students after graduation.

Another facilitator of contact between students and companies is the Career Service Centre, also based on Campus.

Organization

VIA University College is organised in four faculties and two divisions.

• Faculty of Education and Social Studies
• Faculty of Health Sciences
• School of Technology and Business
• Faculty of Performing Arts.

The two divisions are:

• Continuing Education
• Research and Development

Degree Programmes

VIA University College offers both undergraduate and graduate

Graduate school

A graduate school is a school that awards advanced academic degrees with the general requirement that students must have earned a previous undergraduate degree...

 programmes in the following fields, IN ENGLISH:

2-year programmes

• AP Degree in Marketing Management
  
• AP Degree in Design and Business
  

1½-year programmes

• BA Top-Up Degree in Design and Business
  

3-4 year programmes

• Architectural Technology and Construction Management
  
• Character Animation
  
• Civil Engineering
  
• Computer Graphics Artist
  
• Global Business Engineering
  
• Global Nutrition and Health
  
• ICT Engineering
  
• International Sales and Marketing Management
  
• Mechanical Engineering, Horsens
  
• Value Chain Management
  
• Master Degrees
  
• Master in European Construction Engineering
  

VIA Summer School

Every year, VIA offers a variety of summer schools at Campus Horsens. The courses are taught in English.

Partners universities and programmes

VIA University College is engaged in various international research and development projects as the leading institution or as a partner. Projects are initiated under a variety of funding programmes and are often interdisciplinary and cross-sectorial yet always rooted within the educational fields of VIA's Faculties and Schools.


Partners universities:

• California State University East Bay
• Edinburgh Napier University
• Universidad Politécnica de Valencia

Some of the programmes VIA is participating in:

• Erasmus (Life Long Learning Programme)
• Erasmus Mundus
• Leonardo da Vinci
• EU – Australia
• DK – USA/Canada
• Tempus