The universities have been directed to offer 75-ECTS Master’s degree programmes. As a consequence, the faculty will, from 2028 at the latest, offer four new specialised Master’s degree programmes (Science Communication, Nature and Landscape Management, Applied Data Analytics and Applied Computer Science). In addition, we will offer work-integrated Master’s degree programme options on all of our 120-ECTS Master’s degree programmes from 2026. We anticipate offering two models: one with four years of half-time study and a ‘1+2’ scheme with one year of full-time study and two years of half-time study. 

 

Just as it is possible to participate in industry collaboration projects on all programmes, all students should also have the opportunity to participate in innovation or entrepreneurship courses. Such courses can be either subject-specific or interdisciplinary, and will be developed in collaboration between the degree programmes and Science Bridge.

 

Several of the faculty's IT programmes currently have an unemployment rate close to zero, and there is a general trend of falling unemployment for all of the faculty's programmes. The high demand for our graduates – combined with shrinking youth cohorts in the coming years – will lead to an increasing need to attract international labour to the region's businesses. To this end, we will work for the establishment of more international student enrollment – particularly within areas where graduates are in high demand. We must focus on integrating international students into the academic community, and we will continue to collaborate with businesses to retain international students in Denmark after graduation. Up to eight in ten of our international students are currently employed in Denmark one year after graduation.

 

We will develop the teaching methods used in our programmes by incorporating advances from the latest research in natural sciences education. We will do this through projects organised by the new national centre for science education, USE (University Science Education), among other initiatives. In addition, we will continue to integrate digital skills and methods into teaching, and students will increasingly be taught disciplinary digital skills, data management and responsible use of AI.

 

Over the past decade, both primary and secondary schools have undergone radical reforms. One consequence of this has been a decline in interest in our subjects. The faculty will continue and intensify its efforts to foster interest in the natural sciences among pupils at primary and secondary schools, upper secondary schools and among young people taking a gap year. 

 

Going forward, NAT’s graduate school will offer seven single-subject PhD programmes affiliated with the seven departments. In order to enhance the interdisciplinarity of our PhD programmes, we will establish a joint initiative, modelled on the interdisciplinary research and teaching environment at iNANO, which will offer PhD students from all fields at NAT access to interdisciplinary educational and research activities, including interdisciplinary summer schools and entrepreneurship activities.