Language Requirements

If English is your second language, you must provide documentary proof of English language skills.

Accepted tests and scores

Accepted tests and scores are the following:

  • TOEFL IBT paper-based test: minimum total score of 560 (there is no requirement of a specific score in the four disciplines)
  • TOEFL IBT internet-based test: minimum total score of 83 (there is no requirement of a specific score in the four disciplines)
  • IELTS (academic) test: minimum overall band score of 6.5 (there is no requirement of a specific score in the four disciplines)
  • A passed Cambridge English Certificate: minimum level C1, e.g. the CPE
  • International Baccalaureate (IB) which includes one of the following courses in which the minimum pass grade of 3 has been obtained:
    • English B, standard level (SL)
    • English A1, A2 eller B, higher level (HL)
    • English A1 eller A2 standard level (SL)
    • English A Literature or English A Language and Literature, higher Level (HL)
    • English A Literature eller English A Language and Literature, standard Level (SL)

It is a requirement that the TOEFL and IELTS certificates are no more than 2 years old at the beginning of the degree studies, whereas there is no period of limitation for the Cambridge and IB tests.

NOTE: The Faculty of Social Sciences does NOT accept personal recommendations and attestations of English proficiency from former universities, professors etc. as documentary proof of adequate English proficiency.

Exemptions

You are solely exempted from submitting a language test if you:

  • submit documentary proof that you have completed high school in Denmark
  • submit documentary proof that you have completed high school in either Sweden, Norway, Finland or Iceland and your diploma includes courses which equals Danish B-level; or
  • submit documentary proof that you have completed high school in either Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, United Kingdom or the US; or
  • submit documentary proof that, for two or more years, you have studied and passed English-taught academic disciplines as a full-time student at university level in either Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, USA or the United Kingdom.
  • Submit documentary proof that your will or have completed your bachelor at a Danish University

If you have completed high school in either Sweden, Norway, Finland or Iceland, you must upload copy of your high school diploma and indicate on the copy which courses that exempt you from the English language requirement.

If you have completed high school in either Denmark, Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, United Kingdom or the US, you must submit a copy of your high school diploma.

If you either are completing or have completed your bachelor degree in Denmark or have studied and passed English-taught academic disciplines as a full-time student at university level in either Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, USA or the United Kingdom for two or more years, you must upload copies of transcript and diploma (if available).

NOTE: The documentation must be uploaded under the section concerning language requirements.

How to submit your score report

You must upload your official score report to your application yourself. We do not accept score reports received directly from test providers.

No test or result?

If you have yet to sit a language test or you have not received the test score yet, please follow below steps:

No test

If you have not passed an accepted English language test at the time of submitting your application and are offered admission, you must make sure to sit a language test no later than 1 September/February in order to ensure that you are able to submit documentary proof to the Faculty no later than 20 September/February that you meet the English language requirement. If you do not submit documentary proof that you meet the English language requirement on 20 September/February at the latest, your enrolment will be terminated.

No result

If you have already attended an accepted English language test at the time of submitting your application, but have yet to receive the results of your test at the time of submitting your application, you can submit the result when you receive it by e-mailing a copy of the score report to admissions@samf.ku.dk.

NOTE: If you are an applicant from outside the EU/EEA and Switzerland and are admitted to one of our MSc degree programmes and you have yet to attend and pass an accepted English language test, we advise you to do so and send the result to admissions@samf.ku.dk at the first opportunity in order for your admission to become non-conditional as soon as possible.

Only once the Danish Agency for International Recruitment and Integration has received all necessary information relating to your application for a Danish residence permit, it will decide in the case. And this, among other things, requires that your admission to the MSc degree programme in question is non-conditional. There are very strict rules in relation to the process for obtaining a Danish residence permit and the application process is very lengthy and administratively heavy (two months).