With a Work-Integrated Master’s degree programme from the Faculty of Natural Sciences, your company gains a bachelor-level employee who works part-time with you while completing a part-time Master’s degree over four years.
This means you get a committed colleague who already has a solid academic foundation – and who continuously brings new research-based knowledge and theory into practice in your organisation. At the same time, the employee has the opportunity to grow professionally in close alignment with your company’s tasks and needs.
A Work-Integrated Master provides the same academic title and competencies as a traditional two-year full-time Master’s degree – just distributed over four years, allowing work life and student life to go hand in hand.
In short: You get a qualified employee who develops through the tasks both in the company and at the university.
To employ a student in a Work-Integrated Master’s degree programme, you must be able to offer:
A relevant part-time position averaging 25 hours per week
A role with responsibility and opportunities for development, on equal terms with other employees
A salary that matches the role’s responsibilities and tasks
Working hours are planned flexibly and with respect for the student’s academic commitments. This means that fewer working hours may be needed during exam periods – which can be balanced by more hours in other periods.
In addition, the student must meet the admission requirements for the Master’s programme – just like any other applicant.
If you wish to hire a Work-Integrated Master student, you can post a job advertisement on Aarhus University’s job portal, or you can employ a student you already know—for example from an internship in your company.
If you would like to use our job portal, you can:
Create a job advertisement describing a position relevant to the academic field you are recruiting within
Publish the advertisement on Aarhus University’s job portal – where students actively search for Work-Integrated Master positions
We are happy to provide guidance on your job posting to ensure it reaches the right audience and aligns with the academic requirements of the programme.
The Work-Integrated Master’s programme is a flexible way to complete a Master’s degree while working part-time in a company.
There are two models:
