Admission requirements

Admission to the MSc in Social Data Science requires the completion of a qualifying Bachelor’s degree from a recognised/accredited university. The degree must be equivalent in level and content to a Danish Bachelor’s degree.

If you have completed a qualifying Bachelor’s degree or are enrolled in the final semester of a qualifying Bachelor’s degree programme, you are eligible to apply for admission to the MSc in Social Data Science.

You are required to document an adequate level of proficiency in English; see the language requirements

Assessment of academic qualifications

Only the applicant’s Bachelor’s degree will be considered when the applicant’s academic qualifications are assessed. This means that it is not possible to complete supplementary courses in order to meet the specific admission requirements.

The only exception to this are courses which have been completed before the Bachelor’s degree was finished. These courses can either be part of a previous study programme or have been taken as single courses. But no more than 30 ECTS credits from such courses can be taken into account in the assessment.

Improved grades are not considered

Any improved grades are not considered. This is due to the fact that in Denmark it is not possible to improve grades in courses that has already been passed on the Bachelor's degree programme. Thus, if you have been awarded more than one grade in the same course, we will only consider the grade that you were awarded the first time that you passed the course when calculating your grade point average.

All applicants from non-Danish universities must, consequently, upload a complete transcript showing all examination attempts, the date of each examination attempt and the appurtenant exam result. If the applicant is unable to obtain a complete transcript from the home university, a confirmation that the applicant's transcript does not contain improved grades issued by the current home university is required instead.

Random checks of the applicant's basis for admission may also be made to the home university. In the case of admitted students, any fraudulent information in terms of grades may result in the student being deregistered from the degree programme in case of admission without entitlement.

However, any grade awarded on the basis of an appeal against the original grade will be considered. In this case, it must be clearly stated that this is an improved grade as a result of a complaint. Any such grade must be made available to the Faculty no later than the deadline for applications. Otherwise, the grade can only be considered in subsequent application rounds.

Random checks of the validity of international exam results will be carried out.

Please contact the admissions office if you are in doubt about the rules or have questions about your entry qualifications.

Does your Bachelor’s degree meet the academic requirements?

In order to be admitted into the MSc in Social Data Science, applicants must meet the following requirements:

Hold one of the following Bachelor’s degrees from a Danish university, a Bachelor’s degree from a Danish university equivalent to any of the fields below or a Bachelor’s degree from a recognised international university equivalent to any of the fields below:

Agricultural economics	Global business informatics
Anthropology	International business and politics
Business administration and digital management	Mathematics-economics
Business administration and project management	Organisational learning
Business administration and psychology	Political science
Business administration and sociology	Psychology
Digital design and interactive technologies	Public administration
Economics	Public health
Economics and business administration	Social science
Education science	Sociology
European business	Sociology and cultural analysis
European ethnology	Techno-anthropology

Or hold a Bachelor’s degree from a recognised Danish or international university with at least 30 ECTS credits from social sciences courses of which at least one should be a practical methods course. Social sciences courses include, among other things, social statistics courses, ethnography courses and other courses on qualitative or quantitative data collection and analysis; courses on culture, organisation, leadership, innovation, management or related topics which involve empirical data collection, processing or analysis; and Bachelor and other self-defined projects which include social data collection, processing or analysis.
All applicants must hold English language proficiency corresponding to at least the Danish upper secondary school 'English level B. (For information on how to meet the language requirements, please click here).

Degrees that do not qualify for admission:

For your guidance the following Danish degrees do not qualify for admission:

Professionsbachelor i Eksport og teknologi
Professionsbachelor i Finans
Professionsbachelor i Leisure Management
Professionsbachelor i Value Chain Management
Professionsbachelor i Økonomi og informationsteknologi
Professionsbachelor i Offentlig administration
Professionsbachelor i Skat
Professionsbachelor Socialrådgiver

The list is not exhaustive.

Check which master’s programmes at UCPH your bachelor programme is pre-approved for admission to. Please note that the admission tool is only available in Danish.

IMPORTANT

We advise applicants from outside the EU/EEA and Switzerland to submit documentary proof of qualifications on par with the Danish secondary school 'English level B' as soon as possible and preferably when applying.

Among other things, it is a requirement that the admission is non-conditional for the Faculty to able to initiate the application process for a Danish residence permit on behalf of its students.

Please be advised that the rules in relation to the process for obtaining a Danish residence permit are very strict and that the application process is very lengthy and administratively heavy (two months).