The Dean's Column

LIFE and SCIENCE are well on their way with strengthening the study programmes – a job that has been going on for several years. The merger provides new opportunities to offer attractive cross-disciplinary programmes and to increase flexibility.

 

As a student you will not feel that programmes are changing greatly here and now. But the objective is to improve programmes even more over the coming years at the new SCIENCE-LIFE faculty. At the SCIENCE-LIFE faculty, in addition to offering many and relevant programmes, we will provide greater flexibility internally and more options externally.

 

As to the relevance of the programmes, we are already offering programmes that are cross-disciplinary and which contribute to the society of which we are a part. In future, we will be able to enhance the cross-disciplinary aspect further because we are creating one faculty where the subject areas are brought together and where we will benefit from each other- across biology, geosubjects and in relation to resource management and economics, lifestyle and welfare, IT, applied statistics, etc. The merger will also help strengthen our attachment to basic research.

 

As to greater flexibility, it is our objective to make it even easier for students to “move” across subjects and study programmes. Our bachelors will be able to choose between the large number of strong MSc programmes offered.

 

Finally, we will create a strong platform for strategic educational collaboration, nationally as well as internationally- with the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Copenhagen Business School (CBS) and Metropol, among others. At the same time, we will become a faculty with strong relations to the employers of our graduates.

 

In addition to the above, we will become a faculty with even greater focus on internationalisation - that is, a strong player on the international higher education market. We will work on attracting more qualified students to the faculty through recruitment activities. And we will focus on attracting more young people to the science programmes that we offer.

 

Kind regards

 

Per Holten-Andersen

Dean at LIFE