Credit Studies

To be admitted as a credit student, you must be a student at the University of Copenhagen or another Danish university and have a pre- approval from the programme you are enrolled in.

If you have a pre-approval, you will be admitted to the course if there are seats available. We do not require further documentation of your qualifications. It is therefore very important that you check whether you have the prerequisites for attending the course. You can do this by reading the course descriptions very carefully.

Please note that there are other admission requirements if you wish to take courses at Department of Political Science.

See the admission requirements under "Department of Political Science"

The Application is open 3 times a year:

• Spring semester - Study start 1 February:
• Application opens 1 November.  Deadline 1 December.
  
  
• Summer Schools:
• Application opens 1 April. Deadline 1 May. 
  
  
• Autumn semester - study start 1 September:
• Application opens 1 May. Deadline 1 June.

You apply for admission as a credit student by completing one of the two forms below.

You must use the first form if you are an active student on UCPH and have a login to KUnet. You must use the second form if you are enrolled at another Danish University.

Application for admission as a credit student from University of Copenhagen

Application for admission as a credit student from another Danish university

(The forms are only active when the application round opens)

You must complete and submit one form per faculty at UCPH you apply to, so if you only want to apply for courses at Faculty of Social Sciences, you only need to complete and submit one form.

Pre-approval:

If you are unable to obtain pre-approval before the application deadline:

UCPH students: You do not need to send us the pre-approval. We will check with your home faculty whether they have pre-approved the course.

 Student from another Danish university: You must forward the pre-approval to us via this form:

Forwarding of pre-approval - Credit transfer student (from another Danish University)

The final deadline for submission is 15. August for courses in the autumn semester, 15. January for courses in the spring semester and 15. June. for summer courses

Applications are not processed until after the application deadline. We try to process all applications as quickly as possible, but it can take six weeks from the application deadline until you receive a reply to your application.

All seats are allocated by lottery.

When you register for courses, you will automatically be registered for the exam. As a credit student, you participate on the same terms as a full-time student.

You are entitled to three examination attempts in the course:

The ordinary exam (1. exam attempt)

The associated re-examination (2. exam attempt)

The first ordinary exam after the above re-examination (3. examination attempt)

4th examination attempt:

Do you want a 4. exam attempts, you must apply for an exemption to this.

Read the exam rules carefully

Please note that the exam rules at Faculty of Social Sciences may be different from those on your home degree programme. It is therefore important that you read all the exam rules. You can read about our rules on the study information pages on KUnet.

You can find all information on exam dates right here:

Exam plans – Faculty of Social Sciences - University of Copenhagen (ku.dk)

The Faculty of Social Sciences offers a wide variety of courses for credit students.

In our course database you can see whether the course is open to credit students. Look under “Education” or “Sign up”

You can also read more under the specific Departments below.

At Department of Anthropology, credit students can apply for admission to all elective courses. Department of Anthropology do not offer admission to compulsory courses to credit students.

See our courses in our course database - kurser.ku.dk

Most courses at Department of Psychology are only offered in Danish. See which courses are offered in English in our course database -kurser.ku.dk

As a credit student at Department of Sociology, you can apply for admission to all elective courses. You can also apply for compulsory courses on the 3 and 4. Semester. Sociology also offers credit students admission to summer schools.

See our courses in our course database - kurser.ku.dk

To become a credit student at the Department of Political Science, it is a requirement that you have an academic background within the core areas of political science (see below), at an introductory and intermediate level, equivalent of at least 30 ECTS credits:

• International relations
• Comparative politics
• Public Administration and Politics
• Political Theory
• Social Science Methodology

In addition, it is a requirement that you have passed courses within International relations in order to take elective courses within this field and similarly within the subdisciplines of: Public administration and politics, Political theory, Comparative politics and Social science methodology in order to take elective courses within these areas.

Credit students can apply for admission to all courses offered by Department of Political Science except these courses below:

• Courses that are part of a Core subject Track
• Compulsory courses on the master's degree programme in Security and Risk Management:
  Security Risk Management, Security Studies, Political Risk Analysis, Knowledge, Production and Evaluation, Organisation and Risk
• The course, Social Science: Profession and Practice on the master's degree programme in Social Science

You must attach your transcript of records as documentation of ECTS credits gained on your current study programme. If you have not gained any ECTS, please upload documentation of your enrolment.

If you are applying for courses with specific admission requirements, please attach documentation for fulfilling the requirements as listed below:

Mathematics at B-level in order to enroll in Microeconomics, Macroeconomics and Methodology 1. You need to have passed Methodology 1 before you can enroll in Methodology 2.

See our courses in our course database - kurser.ku.dk

At Department of Economics you can choose between all our BSc and MSc courses – including summer schools.

You must read the course descriptions carefully and decide whether you have the prerequisites for attending the course. Our courses generally require good skills in mathematics, micro and macro.

See our courses in our course database - kurser.ku.dk

Global Development does not offer courses for credit students.

See our courses in our course database - kurser.ku.dk

At Security Risk Management, you can apply for admission as a credit student in most elective courses. However, some elective courses are not open to credit students.

You must be enrolled on a Master's degree programme to take courses in Security Risk Management

Please note that the admission requirements for courses at Security Risk Management is the same as Department of Political Science.

See our courses in our course database - kurser.ku.dk

Social Data Science does not offer courses for credit students.

If you have any questions regarding application procedures, etc. you can write to us by email to meritstuderende@samf.ku.dk

If you have any counselling questions, you can contact Student Guidance by email or phone: 35 32 46 00