Biotechnology

Overview

One of the Best Engineering Courses in the World

If you take an engineering education at Aalborg University , you will attend one of the best engineering education in the world! In 2018, our engineering programs were named the fourth best in the world by 178 experts surveyed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). At the same time, AAU was named the best engineering university in Europe for the second time in six months.

Academic Content 

When studying Biotechnology you will be working across the fields of biology, chemistry and engineering and you have the opportunity to learn more about topics such as environmentally damaging toxins and new, green technologies.

You will be working a lot in the laboratory and the courses and coursework will take up half of your study time while the other half will be spent on project work in groups.

You have the possibility to choose a specialisation in Medical Biotechnology in this study programme. When choosing the specialisation you will e.g. learn about the nature of different diseases as well as work with the development of new techniques and drugs for diagnostics and treatment in the health sector.

Waste water treatment and biorefinery production plants for recovery of valuable nutrients and biofuel production rely on biotechnology with regard to design and control of microbial and enzymatic processes. Inevitably, biotechnology is the key to a green and sustainable development of the World and our future lives. Important theoretical and experimental areas of the Masters programme include microbial and cell cultures, bioactive molecules, experimental molecular biology and gene technology, genomics and bioinformatics.