Bachelor’s degree from Denmark
As a citizen from a country outside the EU, EEA or Switzerland you can apply for admission, if you hold a relevant bachelor’s degree or another relevant degree at the same educational level.
Read about the admission and language requirements
When to apply
- The Application Portal opens: 16 January
- Application deadline: 1 March
We do not accept applications after the application deadline.
How to apply
When you apply for admission, you need to create an application at the Application Portal and upload the relevant documentation. This is the only way you can apply for admission.
Citizens from a country outside the EU, EEA or Switzerland with a Danish Bachelor’s degree or a Danish Professional Bachelor’s degree are not required to pay an application fee.
Citizens from a country outside the EU, EEA or Switzerland must pay tuition fees.
You can submit 3 applications for UCPH
Please note that you may submit a maximum of 3 applications to UCPH study programs with the same study start.
Any extra applications will be annulled by the Admissions office.
Follow your application
Once you have applied for admission, you will find application updates and received messages from the University in the application portal. When you receive a message in the application portal, a notification will be sent to the email account you have registered in your application.
Please note: We recommend that you use your personal email when you create your application as some universities close student accounts once a student has completed their degree.
Tips and tricks for the application portal
- Use Firefox or Goggle Chrome as your browser when creating and submitting you application.
- Check the user guide for the application portal when you fill out your application.
- Read the FAQ where you can find answers to the most common questions concerning the application portal.
- Contact SCIENCE Student Services if you cannot find the answers, you are looking for in the FAQ.
- Contact Service desk if you have technical problems.
If you fulfill the admission requirements and there are places available in the MSc programme, we will offer you admission through the application portal. You will receive only one offer of admission which will be for highest of your priorities where we are able to offer you admission.
If you do not fulfill the admission requirements , we will also let you know through the application portal.
We will be offering admission from March and until 10 June so it is important that you check the application portal regularly during this period.
Accept your offer of conditional admission
If you have received an offer of conditional admission, you need to actively accept the offer within 5 days of receiving the offer of admission. If you do not accept the offer before the deadline, you will lose your place in the MSc programme. Therefore, it is important to check the status of your application regularly on the application portal.
Your admission offer is conditional and will include a list of conditions you must meet prior to full admission, e.g. certified documentation for completed Bachelor’s degree. We will inform you of the deadlines and how to meet the conditions.
Check your email regularly
When you receive a message at the application portal, a notification will be sent to the email account you have registered in your application. Please note that emails from the application portal may end up in your spam filter.
To get your final admission to your MSc programme you need to pay the first part of your tuition fees. When you accept the offer of admission, we will send you an e-mail with a link to our payment portal and instructions on how to make the tuition fee payment.
Deadline for paying the first tuition fees: 15 April
If you fail to pay your tuition fee before the deadline, we will have to cancel your admission.
Collect documentation for your application
As part of your application, you must submit different documentation. See which documents we require for your application:
Get your documentation via data exchange
- If you are a student at a Danish university (UCPH, AU, AAU, SDU, RUC, ITU, DTU or CBS), we recommend that you authorize data exchange. By authorizing the data exchange, you will not have to provide us with a transcript/diploma.
You must upload an official transcript of grades for the qualifying degree you have completed or are currently enrolled in. The transcript must include:
- an official stamp
- a signature from your university
If you have authorized data exchange
If you have authorized data exchange, we will collect your official transcript automatically.
If you have not authorized data exchange
If you have not authorized data exchange, you must upload your official transcript of grades. The transcript must include:
- an official stamp
- a signature from your university
The documentation must be in Danish, Norwegian, Swedish or English.
Deadline to upload your transcript of grades: 1 March
We use your GPA to determine if you may be considered for one of the faculty’s few governmental scholarships. Additionally, some programmes use GPA as a selection criterion.
You must calculate and upload your GPA
To compare many different grading systems, you must calculate your GPA in percentage by using this calculator for your GPA (Excel-file). You will find a guide on how to fill out the GPA calculator in the excel-file.
Once you have calculated your GPA in percentage in the GPA calculator, you must enter the number in your application. Then you must save your GPA calculation document as a PDF-file and upload it to your application.
If you do not calculate and upload your GPA your application may be rejected.
If you have questions regarding the GPA calculation or grade conversion, please see our FAQ.
Deadline to upload your GPA calculation: 1 March
If you have a pre-assessment from the Faculty of SCIENCE you must upload it to your application.
The pre-assessment is optional and only available for students at a Danish university/university college.
Deadline to upload your pre-assessment: 1 March
You must upload documentation if you have completed courses or exams from a previous unfinished MSc programme, . We use the documentation to assess whether you are eligible for a mandatory credit transfer.
The documentation can be:
- A copy or a scan of an official transcript, or
- Diploma for all completed courses/exams at your former MSc Programme
You are also obligated to inform us whether you have completed an MSc Programme. Read more about the master’s degree admission rule.
If you have authorized data exchange
If you have authorized data exchange, we will collect the information automatically.
If you have not authorized data exchange
If you have not authorized data exchange, you must upload documentation, which can be either:
- A copy/scan of official transcript or
- Diploma which includes all completed courses/exams at your former MSc Programme
Both types of documentation must include:
- an official stamp
- a signature from your university
The documentation must be in Danish, Norwegian, Swedish or English.
Deadline to upload your documentation: 1 March
You must document that you fulfill the requirement of English proficiency. Please find information about the language requirement here.
Deadline to upload documentation for English proficiency: 1 March
The deadline will not be extended. Please be aware that if you do not upload this documentation, your application will be rejected.
If you are offered admission, you must document that you have completed your Bachelor's degree no later than 20 September.
If you have authorized data exchange
If you have authorized data exchange, we will collect your official diploma before the deadline.
If you have not authorized data exchange
If you have not authorized data exchange, we require certified documentation for your completed Bachelor’s degree.
We can receive your diploma in the following ways:
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Send us a copy of your bachelor’s diploma by email
Send the copy to msc-admissions@science.ku.dk. It is important that you send the email from the email address that you have registered in the application portal.
2. Get your former university to send us an e-mail
The e-mail must be sent from an official university administration e-mail account.
We must be able to verify/find the e-mail account on the university’s website.
The e-mail must be sent directly to: msc-admissions@science.ku.dk
The e-mail must either include your official diploma OR state that you have completed your bachelor’s degree at their institution which must include:
- Your full name
- Date of birth
- Title of your degree
- Date of completion of your degree
- A link to the sender’s contact information on the university’s website
3. Send your hard copy to us
We require a hard copy of your official diploma. The hard copy must carry an official stamp and signature from your former university on the document.
The hard copy must be sent by regular mail to this address:
Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen
Att: MSc Admissions
Bülowsvej 17
1870 Frederiksberg C
Denmark
4. You can also put the hard copy in our mailbox that is located outside Bülowsvej 17 once you arrive in Denmark.
If the diploma is in a language other than English or a Scandinavian language (Danish, Swedish or Norwegian)
You must include an official English translation. If your educational institution cannot provide you with an official translation, an authorized translator, who stamps and signs the document, must carry out the translation.
Deadline:20 September
Non-required documentation
- We do not evaluate non-required documentation when assessing your application.
Examples of non-required documentation:- Letter of motivation or personal statement
- Statements or evaluations from lecturers, professors, employers, etc.
- Documentation of pre-university activities (for example high school education/upper secondary school), unless you upload it as documentation for English proficiency
Anything missing?
We require that you submit all required documentation when submitting your application. We then assess whether your application is complete by looking through the required documentation. If anything is missing, we will send you a message in the application portal.
Deadline for uploading any missing documents will be 1 week from the time we contact you. Make sure you check your e-mail regularly. Remember to check your spam filter too.
Verification of information
If we determine that you have used falsified or misleading documentation in your application, we are obliged to report it to the police, to reject your application and cancel your admission.
Get help with your application
SCIENCE Student Services is ready to help you with your application. You can for example join our online Q&A's about admission and application process, call us or send us an email.
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