Highly qualified graduates with relevant competencies

At Aarhus BSS, we take our point of departure in AU's overall quality assurance policy when ensuring that our students become highly qualified graduates with relevant competencies. Specifically, this means that we use input from the graduate survey to develop degree programmes, and focus on providing opportunities for work placements and project placements, as well as for writing a Master’s thesis in collaboration with a company or an organisation. In addition, we focus on how we as a university collaborate with employers and how we can provide continuing and further education for a developing labour market. Read more about this on the subpages in the sub-policy.

AU’s goal is for students to acquire both subject-specific and transferable competencies through their studies and to be able to find attractive positions on the job market quickly. The university will offer career development activities and maintain ongoing contact with employers of graduates.

1. Through their studies, students must acquire knowledge as well as both academic and praxis-oriented competencies that fulfil society’s needs

Founded in disciplinary excellence, AU’s degree programmes must provide students with relevant knowledge, qualifications and competencies to enable graduates to navigate in a dynamic, digitalised job market. Students must have opportunities to participate in career development activities that assist them in clarifying their career ambitions and competencies and smooth the transition from university to employment or entrepreneurship.

2. Students must have an opportunity to connect with the job market in order to bring their subject knowledge into play in relevant professional contexts and develop networks with potential employers.

All students must be exposed to and encouraged to interact with stakeholders in the labour market. Students must be given opportunities to work with praxis-oriented, career-relevant topics, meet potential employers and connect with professional role models in relevant positions.

3. AU’s goal is to ensure the relevance of its degree programmes through ongoing contact with employers of AU’s graduates.

At AU, students must encounter degree programmes that are developed and designed with the involvement of relevant employer perspectives. To ensure this, employers must be involved in the ongoing process of developing the quality of AU’s degree programmes.

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Revised 28.08.2025

Astrid Marie Gad Knudsen