When you apply for admission to an English-taught programme, you must upload documentation of your entry qualification and of all the activities you refer to in your application. Generally, you must submit your documentation together with your application no later than the application deadline on 15 March at 12 noon (Danish time).
Make sure that your documentation is complete and easily readable
Your documentation must be as precise and accurate as possible, and all copies must be in easy-to-read, high-quality print. Your documentation must be in either Danish, Swedish, Norwegian or English.
You must upload documentation of your entry qualification yourself.
Documentation of an upper secondary qualification
If you apply on the basis of a foreign qualification, we encourage you to have it assessed by the Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science. You can also check whether your foreign upper secondary qualification is considered to be equivalent to a Danish upper secondary qualification using the list of international qualifications for entry to Danish undergraduate programmes.
Foreign diplomas that are not issued in Danish, English, Swedish or Norwegian must be translated into Danish or English by a certified translator and be uploaded with your application for admission along with the original diploma(s). You must also upload documentary evidence of the validity of the translation.
If you are applying for admission to a programme that has specific entry requirements, for instance B-level mathematics, you must document that you satisfy that specific requirement. To document your level of knowledge within a specific subject, you must ask your educational institution to complete verification form for the specific admission requirements required by the programme you are applying for. The verification form must be uploaded with your application.
How to document work experience
Employer statement:
Work experience may be documented through an employer declaration filled in by your employer and stating your job title, employment period, weekly working hours and the employer’s signature.
Contract of employment and payslips:
If you cannot get a statement from your employer, you can use your contract of employment and your payslips to document your work experience.
- If you worked for a fixed number of hours per week, you must upload a copy of your contract of employment and your last payslip.
- If you worked for a varied number of hours per week (e.g. if you had casual work), you must upload your contract of employment as well as all your payslips, however, not covering more than a period of 12 months. At optagelse.dk you must indicate your weekly average number of working hours.
How to document work experience as a self-employed individual
Work experience as a self-employed individual must be documented by copies from the official business records or trade license from the competent authority accompanied by your financial statements or other proof of business income as well as a link to your company's website, if possible.
How to document military service
To prove that you have served in the armed forces, you must upload a signed document from the relevant authority stating your period of service, as well as where you served.
How to document humanitarian work
Humanitarian work should be documented by a description of the tasks you performed as well as the number of hours you worked per week. Furthermore, you must attach a certificate of participation from the humanitarian organisation you worked for.
How to document volunteer work
Volunteer work must be documented by a description made by the organisation you volunteered for. It must describe the tasks you performed as well as the number of hours you worked per week or month.
How to document Danish folk high school ("højskole") attendance
To document Danish folk high school attendance, you must upload a certificate from the folk high school in question indicating the period of your attendance.
How to document a stay abroad
A stay abroad can be documented in different ways. For instance, you can upload a copy of your flight or train tickets and/or stamps or visas in your passport. It is important that you document the period that you spent abroad. The activities you performed abroad may also serve as documentation of your stay abroad.
If you worked or did humanitarian work abroad, you can document those activities in the same way as if they had taken place in your home country.
Please note: "A stay abroad" can never include trips to your home country, even if you were permanently residing in a different country at the time of that trip home. Residence in Denmark may count as a stay abroad, depending on the circumstances of your specific residence.
You can submit documentation of your entry qualification later
If, at the application deadline, you have not yet completed your qualifying exam, your VET education or supplementary courses or other activities that form part of the entry requirement to the study programme, you can submit your documentation of those qualifications at a later time. You must indicate your intention to submit documentation of your completed qualifying exam later in your application on optagelse.dk. Make sure that you do in fact upload your documentation before 5 July at 12 noon (Danish time).
Documentation of other activities for your quota 2 application must be uploaded with your application no later than 15 march at 12 noon (Danish time).
If you are a not a citizen of an EU country, we must receive documentation of your entry qualification no later than 15 March at 12 noon (Danish time).
You can upload PDF documents at optagelse.dk and nemstudie.dk
If you failed a subject at a higher level than the entry requirement specifies
If you failed a subject at a higher level than the specific entry requirement, you do not automatically satisfy the specific entry requirement. Please see the section "If you do not satisfy the entry requirements".
