🇩🇰 8 universities · 145,627 students
Denmark has eight universities. They're moving in opposite directions.
Since 2011, IT-Universitetet has grown by half and DTU by more than a third, while Copenhagen and Aarhus have both shrunk. Statistics Denmark counts students, entrants and completions at each one, and has done for twenty years.
Students
145,627
enrolled on 1 October 2025.
Entrants
55,032
starting that year.
Completions
43,830
degrees finished in the year.
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Cut-offs
Adgangskvotienter live in the ministry's admission system, not in this dataset.
This is universities, not all of Danish higher education
Denmark also has professionshøjskoler (university colleges) and erhvervsakademier, which together teach a large share of students. They aren't here, because Statistics Denmark doesn't publish them per institution: the companion table still lists the CVUs that were abolished in 2008, and the short and medium-cycle tables have no institution dimension at all. Eight universities is the whole of what Denmark publishes institution by institution.
Every university
Sorted by size. Change is since 2011.
| University | Students | Entrants | Completions | Since 2011 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Københavns Universitet62.8% women | 36,267 | 12,848 | 10,851 | -8.2% |
| Aarhus Universitet56.9% women | 32,493 | 12,454 | 9,839 | -9.1% |
| Syddansk Universitet53.6% women | 20,129 | 8,112 | 5,702 | +11.2% |
| Aalborg Universitet50.9% women | 17,657 | 6,862 | 5,542 | +23.6% |
| Copenhagen Business School - Handelshøjskolen47.8% women | 15,297 | 5,963 | 5,425 | +1.3% |
| Danmarks Tekniske Universitet33.8% women | 13,671 | 4,853 | 3,782 | +36.6% |
| Roskilde Universitet67.1% women | 7,628 | 3,025 | 1,957 | -2.6% |
| IT-Universitetet i København40.8% women | 2,485 | 915 | 732 | +52.4% |
5 of 8 are larger than they were in 2011.
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Source: Danmarks Statistik (Statistics Denmark), StatBank table INST20, licensed CC BY 4.0.