[2] The school provides vocational training and educational programmes within the health sciences.

The school offers 3 basic educational programmes within social and health sciences mainly related to municipal job occupations in social health and care facilities and hospitals.

[4] The Basic Porter programme qualifies participants to work in hospitals assisting doctors and nurses transporting patients and equipment around.

[5] In the summer of 2015, SOSU Aarhus took residence in a brand new campus in Skejby, next to Det Nye Universitetshospital (DNU) currently under construction.

In the summer of 2016, SOSU Aarhus and Social- og Sundhedsskolen in Silkeborg merged into one system under the name SOSU Østjylland, which covers seven municipalities (Skanderborg, Silkeborg, Favrskov, Aarhus, Syddjurs, Samsø og Odder).