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:
- Dentistry: Only open for dentistry students from a university with a specific exchange agreement within the area.
- Dental Hygiene Study: Only open for dental hygiene students from a university with a specific exchange agreement within the area.
- Global Health: Only open to master’s students with a completed relevant bachelor’s degree. Global Health students from a university with a specific exchange agreement within the area are prioritised.
- Health Informatics and Health: Offers very few courses taught in English.
- Human Biology: Only open to master’s students with a completed relevant bachelor’s degree.
- Immunology and Inflammation: Only open to master’s students with a completed relevant bachelor’s degree.
- Medicine: Only open for medical students from a university with a specific exchange agreement within the area.
- Neuroscience: Only open to master’s students with a completed relevant bachelor’s degree.
- Public Health: Only open to master’s students with a completed relevant bachelor’s degree.
- Veterinary Medicine: Only open for veterinary students from a university with a specific exchange agreement within the area.
- Courses offered by the professional master’s programmes: closed for external students
All other fields: Require a solid academic background within health sciences
- Advanced Migration Studies: only open for exchange students at master’s level studying
migration at universities participating in the EuMIGS network. - Anthropology: students must take at least 22.5 ECTS credits within Anthropology.
- Applied Cultural Analysis: not open for exchange 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 exchange students.
- Communication and IT: not open for exchange 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 exchange students.
- Educational Studies: only offers courses taught in Danish.
- Egyptology: not open for exchange students.
- 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 exchange students.
- German Language and Culture: only offers courses taught in German for exchange students.
- Greenlandic and Arctic Studies: not open for exchange students.
- Intercultural Market Studies: not open for exchange students.
- International Business Communication: not open for exchange 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 exchange 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 exchange students.
- Philosophy: requires at least the equivalent to 30 ECTS passed within philosophy.
- Portuguese and Brazilian Studies: only offers courses taught in Portuguese for exchange
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 exchange 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. Students with less than 3 semesters of Law may be able to take individual courses depending on their academic background.
Not open to Nordlys students.
Most science courses are open for international students with the right prerequisites. Most courses have specific requirements and usually require at least some academic background in natural sciences.
The majority of English-taught courses are master’s courses, but some departments do offer bachelor level courses in English as well. 3rd- and 4th-year bachelor students, who meet the requirements are allowed to register for master's courses. The Faculty of Science offers only very few English-taught courses in sports science/physical education.
Erasmus students who have their 1st priority subject at the Faculty of Science are required to take a minimum of 22.5 ECTS credits at the Faculty of Science per semester.
- 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 exchange and 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 exchange 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 exchange students.