Admissions - EU applicants

Step-by-step guide

• 1. Prepare your application 

  Before starting your application, it is a good idea to have relevant documentation ready in pdf format, e.g., but not limited to:

  • Upper Secondary School Certificate and transcript of records
  • If you have not yet completed your Upper Secondary School at the time of application, you will be able to forward the final Diploma within a later specified deadline.
  • Documentation of English proficiency
    Find the requirements here
  • ID/passport

  Find an overview of international school leaving examinations that you can use as a guideline here. However, it is important that you check the specific entry requirements for the programme you are applying for and make sure that you enclose all required documentation. Find all study programmes here and see the enrolment tab of your chosen programme.

  You can visit the website of the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science to find help or to have your qualifications evaluated by the Ministry before applying. On the same site, it appears which upper secondary certificates meet the general entry requirements for Danish Professional Bachelor's and Academy Profession degree programmes and find information about entry qualifications from a number of countries as well as EB, IB Diploma, etc.

  Special criteria

  If you do not fulfil the admission requirements, but have other professional qualifications that can be equated to the missing entry requirement/requirements, you can apply for admission with special permission.

  If you wish to apply for a standby place or wish to know more, please see here.

  If you have previously completed some parts or a full higher educational programme in Denmark or in another country, you have to apply for credit transfer.

  If you hold a master’s degree when applying or  you are going to complete one before study start, the master’s degree rule applies to you, read more here.

  If you have already been admitted once before to the study programme for which you are applying, but not completed it, you may have to apply for readmission or re-enrolment. You can find information about readmission and re-enrolment here.

• 2. Apply online

  Go to the official Danish admissions portal optagelse.dk to apply. You will be able to apply for up to eight programmes. If you are applying through an agent or wish to do so, please read more here.

  You can sign in using MitID if you have a Danish CPR number or log in using an email address if you do not have one. At optagelse.dk, you will find complete instructions on how to fill in the application form, upload attachments and much more.

• 3. Send a signature page

  When applying without a Danish CPR number/MitID, VIA needs your signature to get access to and start processing you application. This means that you have to sign, print and send in a signature page for each of the programmes you are applying for.
  
  The signature page is a PDF document generated by the official Danish admissions portal optagelse.dk with a unique application ID, which VIA uses to identify your application. We must have received the signature page(s) before 15 March 12:00 noon. It is not possible to upload signature pages to the admission portal, but you can print the page, sign it, scan it and e-mail it to: apply@via.dk. Send one e-mail per signature page/programme. In the subject field of the e-mail, please indicate which programme the e-mail concerns.

   

• 4. Assessment of application

  When the application deadline is reached, all applications will be assessed.

  Once you have applied through the Danish admissions portal, you will be able to follow the progress of your application on nemStudie.dk, as well as receive and send messages from/to VIA about your application.

  You will receive a notification via email if you get new messages from VIA on nemStudie. It is your responsibility as an applicant to keep yourself informed about your application through nemStudie. Notifications may end up in your spam filter, so make sure to check it.

  Some study programmes have admission tests. See each programme webpage for more information about admission tests.

• 5. Offical acceptance letter

  The final decision on your application will be sent on 28 July through nemStudie. However, if 28 July is a Saturday or Sunday, you will get your acceptance/rejection letter Friday.

  In case of available study places, these will be announced at our Available Places page as of 28 July, or on the Friday before, if 28 July is on a Saturday or a Sunday.

• 6. Confirm/decline your offered study place

  If you have been offered a study place through nemStudie.dk, it is very important that you confirm the offered study place within the stated deadline.

  If you do not confirm the offered study place within the stated deadline, the study place will be forfeited.