Admission requirements

The general admission requirement is that you have accomplished an upper secondary (high) school education.

For some countries, the upper secondary (high) school education is not enough, and you need to supplement. You can supplement by either one or two years of higher education or two courses: at least one A level subject and at least one B level subject.

Please check the general admission requirement for your country:
• I am from a Nordic Country (in Danish)
• I have an International Baccalaureate (IB) or another international diploma
• I have a diploma from a EU/EEA country
• I have a diploma from another country (non-EU/EEA and non-Nordic Countries).

The Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education has general information about foreign qualifications for admission to higher education in Denmark.

In addition to your upper secondary (high) school education, your grade point average must be equivalent to the Danish 6.0 – or more.

For exams from outside EU/EEA countries, where it is not possible to calculate the grade point average, we (at the Guidance and Admissions Office) make an individual assessment to determine whether your educational qualifications are comparable to a grade point average of 6.0.

We consider grades from all your educational credentials: upper secondary (high) school diploma, college diploma, bachelor’s degree and any additional (and supplementary) courses.

The Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education has general information about foreign qualifications for admission to higher education in Denmark.

All of our degree programmes have specific requirements, which you need to meet. First, you need to document that you have studied certain specific courses at certain levels equivalent to the Danish course levels: A (advanced level), B (intermediate level) and C (elementary level). You must have achieved these levels in the upper secondary (high) school education or during further studies at college, university or as supplementary courses.

We will assess your language skills too. In order to do so, we would like to see documentation that you speak, write and read your native language at the highest level (corresponding to Danish A).

The specific requirements tend to be Mathematics A or B, Natural Sciences A or B, History B or foreign language A or B. Therefore, you must include information and transcripts of levels obtained in the relevant subjects (for example A/O level, Higher/Subsidiary level or European A1-C2 levels). We also need to know the number of years studied in upper secondary (high) school or college/university – and in some cases the number of taught hours in the subject.

See the checklist of the documentation you need to provide and the specific requirements for all study programmes (in Danish only).

Please note that specific admission requirements may vary from one study programme to another – and may differ from one university to another. The requirements described on this website apply to the University of Copenhagen only. If you consider studies at another institution, we advise you to reach out and get information from them.

All bachelor's degree programmes at the University of Copenhagen are taught in Danish solely. Consequently, you need to have (and document) academic language skills in Danish when applying with an international examination.

You can obtain Danish language qualifications by passing 'Studieprøven i dansk', which is a nationally approved test for foreign language speakers administered by numerous language schools in Denmark.

Please note that the specific admission requirement about Danish A (mother tongue equivalent to native language at the highest level) for all the programmes is not the same as the Danish language qualifications.

If you come from a Nordic country and have an international exam with Danish, Norwegian or Swedish included in your school leaving examination, you don’t need to pass a Danish language test. However, a course in Danish for Scandinavians at e.g. Studieskolen may be helpful.

If you have the International Baccalaureate or European Baccalaureate, please find the information here.