There are approximately 200 faculty members, 70 PhD students, and more than 2,500 students.[4] Among all admitted Bachelor and Master students at the IT University of Copenhagen in 2020, 38 percent were female.[5]
History
The IT University of Copenhagen was established in 1999, which makes it Denmark's youngest university. At that time, it was—in Danish—called "IT-højskolen". When a new Danish university law [6] was passed in 2003, the college officially became a university and changed its name accordingly.[7][8]
The IT University is governed by a board consisting of 9 members: 5 members recruited from outside of the university form the majority of the board, 1 member is appointed by the scientific staff, 1 member is appointed by the administrative staff, and 2 members are appointed by the university students.[13] The Vice Chancellor[14] is appointed by the university board. The Vice Chancellor in turn appoints deans and deans appoint heads of departments. There is no faculty senate and faculty is not involved in the appointment of Vice Chancellor, deans, or department heads.[15]
The university has three departments:
Business IT
Computer Science
Digital Design
Degree programs
The university originally only accepted students with a Bachelor's degree to its offered Master programs, but started its first Bachelor of Science program in Software Development in August 2007.[16] As of 2018, the IT University offers four Bachelor programs (two of which are internationally oriented and taught in English), five Master study programs (two of which are internationally oriented and are taught in English), professional Master's study programs, a Diploma program, and approximately 100 courses each semester.
The stated objective of the university's research is to strengthen Denmark's ability to create value with IT.[17] The research aims to provide new insight that could be the foundation for new types of interaction, new breakthroughs in digital culture, better resource optimization, technological innovation and much more. An important part of the research conducted at the university is the PhD program that enrolls PhD students from all over the world.
The university's research practice is organized through a handful of research centres:[18]