Course requirements and restrictions
Not all courses are open to international visiting students, and within certain fields, few or no courses are offered in English at bachelor's level.
See programmes with restrictions or academic requirements here:
All study fields at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences require a solid academic background within health sciences.
It is only possible to take master’s courses if you have completed a relevant bachelor’s degree.
The following study programmes only accept students from universities, with which they have a programme specific agreement:
- Dentistry
- Dental Hygiene Study
- Medicine
- Veterinary Medicine
Courses offered by the professional master’s programmes are closed for external students.
- Advanced Migration Studies: only open for international visiting students at master’s level studying migration at universities participating in the EuMIGS network.
- Applied Cultural Analysis: not open for guest students.
- Audiologopedics: only offers courses taught in Danish.
- Classical Greek: usually only offers courses taught in Danish, requires A-level in Greek and
Latin. - Cognition and Communication: not open for guest students.
- Communication and IT: not open for guest students.
- Comparative Literature: occasionally offers courses taught in English.
- Danish Studies: usually only offers courses taught in Danish, requires A-level in Danish.
- East European Studies: not open for guest students.
- Educational Studies: only offers courses taught in Danish.
- Film and Media studies: requires the equivalent of 30 ECTS passed within film and media
studies. - French Language and Culture: only offers courses taught in French for guest students.
- Gender Studies: not open for guest students.
- German Language and Culture: only offers courses taught in German for guest students.
- Greenlandic and Arctic Studies: not open for guest students.
- Intercultural Market Studies: not open for guest students.
- International Business Communication: not open for guest students.
- IT and Cognition: only offers the course Cognitive Science 1 (only autumn semester).
- Italian Language and Culture: only offers courses taught in Italian for guest students.
- Latin Studies: usually only offers courses taught in Danish, requires A-level in Latin.
- Linguistics: only offers courses taught in Danish.
- Middle Eastern Language and Society: Only offers courses in Danish.
- Modern Culture: only open for Master’s students and 4Cities students.
- Musicology: only offers courses taught in Danish.
- Native American Languages and Culture: not open for guest students.
- Philosophy: requires at least the equivalent to 30 ECTS passed within philosophy.
- Portuguese and Brazilian Studies: only offers courses taught in Portuguese for guest
students. - Psychology of Language: only offers courses taught in Danish.
- Rhetoric: only offers courses taught in Danish.
- Spanish Language and Culture: only offers courses taught in Spanish for guest students.
- Theatre and Performance studies: only offers courses taught in Danish.
To take a full course load at the Faculty of Law, students must have completed at least 3 semesters of study in Law at their home university.
All departments: Check the course database for the academic requirements of the specific course.
Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports: Only a few courses offered within Sport Science in English.
Options and restrictions for bachelor students
The Faculty of Science offers a limited amount of bachelor level courses taught in English. However, bachelor students who have completed 2 years of full-time university level coursework (corresponding to 120 ECTS) are allowed to register for Master level courses, if they meet the recommended academic qualifications of the course.
Research Projects (not open to EU Fee Paying guest students)
If you plan to do your thesis or a research project, you must adhere to the rules of either a Individual Study or MSc Research Project. The rules can be found here. Please take note that there are certain rules concerning e.g., duration/start and end date, supervisor, number of ECTS, etc.
- Anthropology: Not open to guest students.
- Economics: Requires an academic background corresponding to at least 30 ECTS within microeconomics, macroeconomics, and econometrics at introductory and intermediate levels.
- Global Development: Not open for guest students.
- Political Science: Requires an academic background in all Political Science subfields (political theory, international relations, comparative politics, public policy, and political science methodology) at introductory and intermediate level.
- Psychology: Requires at least the equivalent of 30 ECTS credits in psychology. To be accepted at Master’s level, you must have passed the equivalent of 90 ECTS credits in psychology.
- Security Risk Management: Not open for guest students.
- Sociology: Not open to guest students.
- Social Data Science: Not open to guest students.
- African Studies: open for master students or students who have passed more than 120 ECTS credits.
- Interreligious Islamic Studies: Only taught in Danish
- Religious Roots of Europe: not open for guest students.