Admissions - Non-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.  

  • 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

  Programmes may have specific entry and documentation requirements. Go to the website of your chosen programme and see the Enrolment tab to make sure you fulfil entry requirements. Find all study programmes here.

  You can visit the website of the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science to find help or to have your qualification evaluated by the Ministry before applying. On the same site you can see which upper secondary certificates satisfy 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 previously have 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 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 to the study programme for which you are applying once before, but not completed it, you may have to apply for readmission or reenrolment. You can find information about readmission and reenrolment 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 NemID if you have a Danish CPR number or you can sign in using an e-mail if you do not. At optagelse.dk, you will find complete instructions on how to fill in the application form, upload attachments and much more.

• 3. Send signature page

  When applying without a Danish CPR number/NemID, 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 optagelse.dk, 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 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 have new messages from VIA on nemStudie. It is your responsibility as an applicant to keep yourself informed on 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 on admission tests.

   

• 5. Sign and return contract

  When the assessment of your application has been completed, you will receive a contract. After having read this carefully, you must return a signed copy of the contract to the Admissions Center.

• 6. Pay tuition fee

  In order to complete your application, you will be required to pay the tuition fee. Find more information on tuition fees in general here or go to the website of your study programme to find individual payment schedules and information.

• 7. Student Visa application

  Once the Admissions center has received your signed contract and payment of tuition fee, the application for a Student Visa from SIRI (The Danish Agency for International Recruitment and Integration) will be initiated by the Admissions Center.

  Once the application has been initiated you will receive a mail with a reference code that you need in order to fill in part 2 of the application form. This form must be filled in no later than 30 days after the initiation of the application.

  If further documentation is needed by SIRI, we advise you to send in all requested documents as soon as possible in order to speed up the process of the Student Visa application which must be ready before study start.

  For detailed information about the application process and requirements, please visit the website of the Danish Immigration service.

• 8. Offical acceptance letter

  The final decision on your application will be sent 28 July through nemStudie.

  In case of available study places, these will be announced at our Available Places page as of 28 July.

• 9. 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.