Molecular biology is the study of molecular processes and problems in humans, animals, plants and microbes. Molecular biology is an interdisciplinary education which contains basic subjects from biology, chemistry, mathematics and statistics.

The Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics offers study programmes in molecular biology and molecular medicine. Foreign students can study at Aarhus University as an exchange student or as a degree seeking student. The department has about: 400 undergraduate students, 100 graduate students, 80 PhD students.