The Danish Student Survey is an important tool to help the university provide a good environment for learning and study to all students – and it is used in the ongoing work to maintain and improve the study and teaching environment on individual degree programmes. The 2025 Danish Student Survey will ask about your academic and social well-being, teaching outcomes, experiences with stress and loneliness, sexism and much more.

The results of the Danish Student Survey 2025 will also form the basis of AU's own assessment of the teaching environment, which is carried out every 3 years (last time in 2023). The purpose of this assessment is to review the university's psychological, physical and aesthetic teaching environment and to draw up action plans at faculty and degree programme level.

Read the latest action plans from 2023 (in Danish only):

• Arts 
• Aarhus BSS
• Health
• Natural Sciences
• Technical Sciences

The results of the Danish Student Survey are also used by the Ministry of Higher Education and Science in relation to:

• "Uddannelseszoom": a digital tool where applicants and students can compare degree programmes across educational institutions
• The Learning Questionnaire (Læringsbarometer): Selected questions from the Danish Student Survey which uncovers the students' perception of their degree programme learning environment and their own approach to learning. The Learning Questionnarie forms the basis for the distribution of up to 5 percent of the universities' funding. Read more on the Ministry's website.

• Tuesday 21 October 2025: You will receive the questionnaire in your AU inbox.
• Thursday 23 October 2025: You will receive the questionnaire in your e-boks.
• October – November 2025: You will receive a series of reminders in your e-Boks, your AU inbox and by text message.
• Wednesday 26 November 2025: Deadline for replying to the questionnaire.
• The results will be available in spring 2026

The Danish Student Survey is sent to all students at higher educational institutions in Denmark by the Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science.
It was carried out for the first time in 2020 and will be carried every other year (next time in 2025).

Every three years (last time in 2023), data from the survey is used as the basis for AU's own assessment of the teaching environment. The scope of the questionnaire therefore varies from year to year, depending on what AU will use the results for.

• Read more about the survey at the Ministry's website (in Danish)

Since the introduction of the Education Environment Act in 2004, all Danish universities are legally committed to conducting this kind of survey.

From 2007 to 2017, AU carried out its own study environment survey every three years. In autumn 2020, AU's own survey was integrated into the Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science's national survey the Danish Student Survey for the first time. This survey was conducted again in 2021 and will from now on be conducted every two years - the last time in 2023.

• See previous study environment surveys and results of the Danish Student Survey at AU