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The application portal is open: 16 January – 1 March (EU applicants) and 15 November – 15 January (non EU applicants)
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About the programme
How can we think critically about international migration across everyday experience, crisis, and politics? What is the role of borders, humanitarianism, climate change, labour, and postcolonialism in human mobility across the world, past and present? The programme in Advanced Migration Studies engages with these questions, providing a unique opportunity for students to engage with questions about migration through study and practice.
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Admission and application
To apply for admission to this master's degree programme, you must have completed a qualifying bachelor’s degree or a similar Danish or international degree programme which is assessed to be relevant. Apply for admission via the application portal.
Below, you can read more about admission requirements and which documents to upload in the application portal.
Academic admission requirements
Here you'll find the different academic requirements depending on which qualifying degree you hold.
Academic admission requirements
If you hold one of the degrees listed below, you are considered to automatically meet the requirements regarding relevance of academic qualifications:
- A bachelor’s degree from a Faculty of Humanities or a Faculty of Social Sciences with minimum 30 ECTS within migration related topics.
In order to proceed with your application please refer to the application procedure.
The faculty may admit applicants other than those mentioned above if it is assessed that the applicant has a bachelor’s degree equivalent to a degree from a Faculty of Humanities or a Faculty of Social Sciences with minimum 30 ECTS within migration related topics.
In order to proceed with your application please refer to the application procedure.
Language requirements
Applicants to an English-taught master's degree programmes at the Faculty of Humanities are required to document their English language proficiency in accordance with the language requirements for admission. Read more about the language requirements below.
Application deadlines
Study start in September
1 March at 23:59
Application deadline for Danish applicants and applicants from within the EU, EEA and Switzerland.
Open for applications from 16 January. You will receive a reply by 10 June.
15 January at 23:59
Application deadline for applicants from outside the EU, EEA and Switzerland.
Open for applications from 15 November. You will receive a reply by 1 May.
How to apply
Choose your category and read how to apply for admission. You can also find information about deadlines and documentation requirements.
Please note that you must also select according to your citizenship:
- Citizen from Denmark, EU, EEA or Switzerland (EU)
- Citizen from countries outside EU, EEA or Switzerland (NON-EU)
If you are a citizen in Denmark, EU, EEA or Switzerland
If you are a citizen in a country outside EU
Have you been enrolled before?
Already completed master’s level courses?
If you already hold a master’s degree or completed master’s level courses you must be aware of the following rules:
I have completed a master’s degree
If you have already completed a master's degree corresponding to a Danish master’s degree?
Please refer to the rules concerning a second degree
I have completed individual master’s level courses
If you previously completed master’s level courses, you must inform the Faculty of Humanities in your application when applying for admission to the programme.
You must include documentation for your completed courses. The Faculty of Humanities assess if your credits can be transferred after admission to the programme.
How your application is assessed
Admission to the programme is competitive and limited to 45 students.
The applicants who meet the academic requirements will be evaluated and ranked in accordance to the selection criteria below. The specified percentage is to show the weighted relevance of each criteria when the application is evaluated. If the number of qualified applicants exceeds the maximum student intake, students will be selected on the basis of their ranking. The highest ranked of the qualified applicants get an offer to join the programme.
Selection criteria
- Academic relevance of the applicant’s bachelor’s degree, in relation to the MA in Advanced Migration Studies profile, and academic excellence (50%).
- Academic relevance of the information provided in the portfolio, in relation to the MA in Advanced Migration Studies profile (50%).
- The portfolio consists of your CV (1 page), your letter of academic relevance (1 page) and/or practice experience within migration related fields (1 page).
| Admission statistics Advanced Migration Studies 2024 | |
|---|---|
| Admitted | 34 |
| Admission distribution (legal right/other) | 0% / 100% |
| Applicants | 321 |
| Age average | 26 |
| Legal gender distribution (cpr. - m/f) | 21% / 79% |
| Nationality (dk/international) | 21% / 79% |
| Available spots | No |
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Programme structure
The MA in Advanced Migration Studies is organised and administered by Centre for Advanced Migration Studies (AMIS) in association with the Saxo Institute, and is unique in drawing on a very comprehensive research environment of migration scholars affiliated with AMIS, covering a range of academic disciplines.
The first year is structured around coursework, grounding our critical, reflexive and historically situated approach, while providing students the opportunity to explore the areas of migration they are most interested in. The second year involves a mobility window, which can involve an internship, elective courses, or university exchanges, and the thesis. Thesis supervisors can be drawn from across the University of Copenhagen.
The table below illustrates how the subject elements are distributed across the semesters.
Year 1
| Semester 1 | Semester 2 |
|---|---|
| International migration (15 ECTS) | Key Concepts and Analytical Approaches in Migration Studies (15 ECTS) |
| Researching migration - methodological approaches (15 ECTS) | Migration and Societies – Practices and Arenas (15 ECTS) |
Year 2
| Semester 3 | Semester 4 |
|---|---|
Choose 30 ECTS among the following:
| Master's Thesis (30 ECTS) |
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Career opportunities
The Master’s programme in Advanced Migration Studies offers a range of career opportunities. It qualifies for a career in political institutions concerned with immigration and integration policies at the national and supranational levels as well as in local government. Graduates may also work with local, national and international NGOs that advocate for the rights of migrants and refugees, as well as for unions and civil society organiations that work in spaces shaped by migration (e.g. labor markets, housing).
Career opportunities in private companies
Opportunities also exist in private companies working with diversity management and international recruitment, as well as in cultural institutions that critically examine and curate the histories and artistic expressions of migrants. Additionally, the Master’s programme prepares for a career in research and education, advancing critical knowledge on migration, e.g. at universities, policy institutes or research/consulting companies.
Students acquire a range of high-level competences in multi-dimensional analyses of migration and integration across various contexts, including the competence to understand the causes, patterns and effects of international migration, as well as to understand and apply social science and humanities-based methods, especially ethnographic, historical and cultural analysis.
Social, communicative and writing skills
In addition, students develop social, communicative, and writing skills through seminar and tutorial formats, such as presenting, engaging in group discussions, and effectively formulating complex research ideas and findings.
This enables them, for example, to analyze the role of religion in diverse societies, the structural dependence on foreign labour in sectors like care and agriculture, structural discrimination experienced by migrants, the representation of migrants in media, and diversity management within institutions.
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Student life
Students are invited and expected to participate in the life of the Centre for Advanced Migration Studies (AMIS), including research events such as conferences, workshops and talks.
Get to know the student life
Saxo Libraty
There are nine departmental libraries on South Campus. The Saxo Library holds the collections and academic literature for Prehistoric Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Ethnology, Greek & Latin, History, Applied Cultural Analysis and Advanced Migration Studies. See information about libraries and opening hoursThe Royal Library on South Campus
The campus branch of the Royal Library houses an extensive collection of the humanities,
has free wireless internet access, and contains 400 workspaces for students to study.
The royal library
The main branch of the Royal library is a popular and centrally-located harbourfront place
for students to study. It has free wireless internet and numerous workspaces for study, and
also houses art and photo exhibitions. Visit the Royal Library website
Etnologisk Fagråd – In English known under the abbreviation SCEMA. SCEMA stands for: The Student Council of European Ethnology, Master of Applied Cultural Analysis and Advanced Migration Studies. SCEMA helps create an academic environment grounded in a community of science and fellowship, which establishes a room for discussion and fellowship among classes. The student council is a volunteer association that arranges social and academic events and functions as the link between students and the management, administration, and teachers of SAXO.
South Campus at the University of Copenhagen offers a modern classroom structure and several cozy meeting points for students. Students at the faculty use the cafés during their breaks to meet up with fellow students or even
This café offers coffee, hot chocolate, cold beer, light lunches and a variety of confectionery. The café stocks various games and has its own pool table.
Each department at the Faculty of Humanities has a student café, run by student volunteers from the department. The cafés offer a cosy environment where you can meet fellow students, read newspapers, play board games and buy cheap coffee and snacks. Student groups arrange study circles with representations from authors, artists and intellectuals and mutual discussions of relevant academic subjects. Furthermore the student cafés arrange Friday café nights often with different themes. There are often international student cafés during the semester where you'll get the opportunity to meet other international students and their mentors. We definitely recommend you to experience the atmosphere of the student cafés as the social life of many Danish student revolves around these cafés.
Most of the departments at the faculty have a party committee that arranges parties and other social events. Your student identity card gives you access to all student parties at the faculty - also at other departments than the one you are enrolled at. Usually, it is possible to bring a guest under the condition that you have obtained a guest ticket from the organizers of the party. Faculty parties are announced through posters on campus.
There is a wide range of associations and clubs at University of Copenhagen. The associations and clubs can be found on all levels of University of Copenhagen. Please visit Studenterhuset's list of more than 100 different associations and organisations.
To find more local associations on department or programme level, please refer to your department, posters on campus, social media and your fellow students.
The students’ sports association is KSI (University of Copenhagen student sports association). Signing up normally takes place in August, although it is possible to join at later dates if slots are free on the teams. KSI offers a wide range of different disciplines both on South Campus and on other locations around Copenhagen. To find information about programmes, prices and contact, please visit the KSI website.
If you are looking for a place to live, please visit University of Copenhagen general information about finding housing.
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Contact student guidance
Questions about study choice and admission
Our student guidance are ready to assist you with answers to your questions about:
- application procedure and the digital application portal
- admission- and language requirements
- documentation
- study life
- career opportunities
- study choice or doubts
Questions about the digital application-portal?
Do you have questions about digital application? Check our user guide to the application portal.
In case of technical problems, please contact the IT-support by
- Mail: it-service@adm.ku.dk // Tel: +45 35 32 32 32
Location
- Faculty of Humanities, South Campus, Karen Blixens Plads 8, DK-2300 København S.
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