Editing Odense (section)

===University of Southern Denmark===
[[File:The Faculty of Engineering, University of Southern Denmark.jpg|left|thumb|The Faculty of Engineering at the University of Southern Denmark's Odense Campus]]
The University of Southern Denmark (''Syddansk Universitet'') was established in 1998 as a merger of Odense University, the Southern Denmark Business School (''Handelshøjskole Syd''), the Southern Engineering School (''Ingeniørhøjskole Syd'') and the South Jutland University Centre (''Sydjysk Universitetscenter''). The main campus is in Odense but there are also departments in Copenhagen, Esbjerg, Kolding, Slagelse and Sønderborg. With some 26,000 students (2012), the establishment is Denmark's third largest university.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.denstoredanske.dk/Erhverv,_karriere_og_ledelse/P%C3%A6dagogik_og_uddannelse/Danske_universiteter/Syddansk_Universitet?highlight=syddansk%20universitet|title=Syddansk Universitet|encyclopedia=Den Store Danske|access-date=12 July 2014 |language=da}}</ref> The Faculty of Engineering (''Det Tekniske Fakultet'') combines several institutions: ''Odense Maskinteknikum'' (a mechanical engineering college which was established in 1905 and in 1962 became the Southern Engineering School), the Mads Clausen Institute and the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Institute.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.denstoredanske.dk/Erhverv%2c_karriere_og_ledelse/P%C3%A6dagogik_og_uddannelse/Danske_universiteter/Syddansk_Universitet/Det_Tekniske_Fakultet|title=Det Tekniske Fakultet|encyclopedia=Den Store Danske|access-date=5 July 2014 |language=da}}</ref>

The Odense campus of the University of Southern Denmark is known to host all faculties and study programs at the same place, contrary to, for instance, [[University of Copenhagen]] where the institutes and disciplines have been spread out in the city. This, too, is reflected in the strategy of the university which stresses cross-disciplinary research. In 2024, [[University of Southern Denmark|The University of Southern Denmark]] campus and Nyt OUH – the new buildings for [[Odense University Hospital]] – will be physically connected to promote cooperations between the two institutions. The combined university and hospital will cover 500,000 square meters,<ref>{{Cite web |title=NytOUH/SDU |url=https://www.sdu.dk/da/nytouh-sdu |access-date=2024-09-12 |website=sdu |language=da}}</ref> making it one of the [[List of largest buildings|largest buildings]] in Europe.