A University colleges in Denmark (Danish: professionshøjskoler, lit.
'professional high school';the English term is also used) is a type of higher education institution mostly offering medium higher education (MVU) and diploma courses, i.e., the professionsbachelor profession bachelor degree.
Danish university colleges offer courses that can lead up to a bachelor's degree.
University colleges also offer short higher education (KVU) degrees such as academy profession degree programmes (Danish: erhvervsakademiuddannelse) offered as business academies.
[citation needed] Since 2008, there have been three mergers, reducing the number of university colleges to six