The University of Copenhagen is the oldest and largest university in Denmark, with a student body of 37,000, including 2,300 international students. Besides eight faculties, university includes approximately one hundred different institutes, departments, laboratories, centres, museums. Together, it offers over 200 programs for study in health sciences, humanities, law, life sciences, pharmaceutical sciences, science, social sciences, and theology. University is a part of International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU), which is a network of the world's leading research universities. It is accepted and ranked as the leading university in Scandinavia, and among the 50 best universities in the world.