The University of Southern Denmark is a merge of the former Odense University, Southern Denmark School of Business and Engineering and South Jutland University Centre. The University of Southern Denmark is, with its some 15,000 students, the third largest university in Denmark.

The University of Southern Denmark is a modern institution of higher education, pursuing advanced research within the four constituent faculties:

• Faculty of Health Sciences
• Faculty of Science and Engineering
• Faculty of Social Science
• Faculty of Humanities.