Credit Students
You have the option to be a credit student and take single courses or do projects at SCIENCE if you are currently enrolled as:
- a full degree student at one of the other faculties at the University of Copenhagen or
- a full degree student at another Danish education institution
or - a PhD student at the University of Copenhagen or another Danish education institution who wants to follow MSc courses at SCIENCE.
However, the credits for the course must be transferred to your own study programme. To ensure that the credits for the course can be transferred, you must enclose the application form for pre-approval from your own educational institution. If you are a PhD student, preapproval can be your approved study plan.
Attending a course as a credit student is free of charge.
Content
- Courses
- Projects
- Admission Requirements
- How to apply for admission
- Course/Exam Certificate
- Who to Contact?
Courses
You may apply as a credit student for all courses at SCIENCE, but you are not guaranteed access to any courses.
See the courses offered at SCIENCE
If you need help in choosing courses, please contact a study and career guidance counsellor at SCIENCE Student Services.
When does teaching take place? Timetable groups and block structure
The classes take place in normal working hours together with the ordinary students.
The course description will state which block and timetable group a course is offered in.
All courses at SCIENCE are organised in accordance with our block structure, which divides the academic year into four nine-week blocks. Blocks 1 and 2 take place in the autumn semester and blocks 3 and 4 take place in the spring semester. Courses usually last one block only.
See the current academic calendar here.
Classes are organised in a timetable group or possibly a sub group. If your course is in timetable group A, this means that classes will take place in both sub groups A1 and A2.
The timetable groups and sub groups are organised according to this model:
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
| 08:00-10:00 | B 1 | A 1 | C 1 | A 1 | B 1 |
| 10:00-12:00 | A 2 | B 2 | |||
| Lunch Break | |||||
| 13:00-15:00 | C 1 | B 2 | C 2 | A 2 | D |
| 15:00-17:00 | C 2 | ||||
You are not under any obligation to attend the lectures for a course, but for some courses you need to meet certain requirements in order to be able to take the exam. If there are requirements for taking the exam, it will be specified in the course description.
Publication of courses offered
The courses for the coming academic year are published on 1 May at www.kurser.ku.dk 
Projects
You can do projects as a credit student at SCIENCE. You can do the following projects at SCIENCE:
- Projects outside course scope (7.5 or 15 ECTS credits)
- Project in practice (15 or 30 ECTS credits)
- Bachelor project (15 ECTS credits)
- Thesis (30, 45 or 60 ECTS credits)
- Thesis preparation project (7,5 or 15 ECTS credits)
Which projects and which size/ECTS credits load you may actually do, is determined by your home institution through your pre-approval.
If you want to do a project at SCIENCE, you are responsible for finding a supervisor at SCIENCE. For each department, you can find lists of staff and their fields of research.
See the list of departments at SCIENCE
You can read a description of the project types and who may be supervisors in the shared section of the curriculum appendix 1 - 5. (You will not find information about the projects in the course catalogue).
When you do a project at SCIENCE, you must draw up one of the following contracts:
- Contract for project outside course scope
- Contract for project in practice
- Contract for bachelor project
- Thesis contract
- Thesis preparation project contract
When you finish filling out the contract, send it to your e-mail, print it and get the required signatures. When you are a credit student your contract do not have to be signed by a head of studies (even though it is indicated in the contract).
Admission Requirements (not relevant if you are PhD student)
When applying as a credit student at a faculty at UCPH, you must make sure that you meet the general admission requirements for credit students and the specific admission requirements for the courses you want to register for.
General admission requirements for credit students
If you want to register for courses at bachelor level, you must meet the admission requirements for the degree programme offering the courses. See admission requirements for the individual bachelor’s degree programmes at UCPH. Choose the degree programme offering the course and click on ‘Admission requirements and admission’. Grade requirements do not apply to credit students.
If you want to register for courses at master’s level, the only general requirement is that you have completed a bachelor’s degree programme.
Specific admission requirements for credit students
When you register for a course as a credit student, there may be course-specific admission requirements you must meet in order to register. If such course-specific requirements are specified, you will find them in the course description under 'Formal requirements'.
In addition to the formal requirements, it is important that you check the course description for any academic expectations that may be specified in order for you to actively participate in and complete the course. If such academic expectations are specified, you will find them under ‘Recommended academic qualifications’.
If the course description does not have sections titled 'Formal requirements' or 'Recommended academic qualifications', it means that no particular requirements are specified for the course. You can find course descriptions in the course catalogue.
You can get an exemption from the admission requirements, if you are deemed to have the necessary academic prerequisites to participate in the course you have applied for. You apply for an exemption by sending - alongside your application - a description of how you believe you have the necessary prerequisites and any documentation you might have for this.
Allocation of places on courses
To be enrolled as a credit student, the course(s) you want to register for must have vacant places.
Some courses have a limited number of places, while others offer a better chance of getting a place.
As a credit student, you will be allocated any available place after the allocation of places to the course’s primary target group (for example, students for whom the course is compulsory).
When you apply for a course with vacant places, the places for credit students will be allocated by lot if the number of applicants exceeds the number of vacancies. This means that the time of application has no impact on your chances of getting a place on the course.
Courses with no capacity restrictions
If there are “no restrictions” on the course capacity stated in the course description, this might change. The number of seats may be reduced after we have handled the course registrations from our ordinary students and set the number of students in every class. When this is done, we admit credit students to courses with vacant seats.
You will always get the opportunity to apply for another course if your application is rejected due to no vacant seats.
How to apply for admission
You apply for admission using the following application form:
Application for Admission as a Credit Student
It is only possible to apply for admission once the courses have been published. You can apply for courses for two blocks at a time i.e. block 1+2 and block 3+4. You can register for max. 15 ECTS credits per block.
Application Deadlines
If you are a PhD student, you can apply at any time. There are no application deadlines for you.
| Block of the course | Application period | Latest reply to application |
| Block 5 + 1 + 2 | 1 April - 1 June |
Block 5: 30 June Block 1+2: 15 July |
| Block 3 + 4 + 5 | 1 October - 1 December | 15 January |
If you are not admitted to the course you applied for because of too many applicants, you will be offered to apply for another course. If you choose to apply for another course, your home-institution will need to pre-approve this course too.
Application after the deadline – you can apply for an exemption
If exceptional circumstances prevent you from applying within the deadline, you can apply for an exemption. You can apply for an exemption by writing: ' I am applying for an exemption from the application deadline ' in the comments field of the application form. Here, you must also describe your reasoning. If your exemption is approved, you will receive an answer about admission.
Send your pre-approval of credit transfer and project contract
You must attach your pre-approval – and project contract, if you want to do a project – in the application form when you apply for admission. If you do not have the documents ready, you can send them to studenterservice@science.ku.dk afterwards.
The deadline for submitting your pre-approval and any project contract is:
| Block of the course | Deadline |
| Block 1 + 2 | 15 August |
| Block 3 + 4 | 15 January |
| Block 5 | 1 July |
If necessary, the student counselling office affiliated to your study programme can advise you about this process.
If you are a PhD student from outside of SCIENCE, an approved PhD plan including the course can act as pre-approval. PhD students from SCIENCE who wish to take master level courses at SCIENCE do not need to send either a pre-approval or an approved PhD plan.
Your admission to a course is not final until we have received your pre-approval. The pre-approval must be sent by the first week of the course at the latest. If we do not receive your pre-approval before this deadline, you will not be admitted to the course.
Course and exam certificates
Exam
You are automatically registered for first exams in the courses you are registered for.
How to register for the re-exam
If you want to take the re-exam in a course, you register by sending an email to studenterservice@science.ku.dk. You must send the email during the registration period. You can see the registration period in the study calendar.
How to apply for special exam conditions
If you have been granted special exam conditions at your own faculty/university, you must send a copy of the decision to studenterservice@science.ku.dk no later than 6 weeks before your exam. You will receive the same special exam conditions, if it is practically possible.
If you fall ill for an exam
If you fall ill for your exam, you must document that you are ill on the day of your exam. When you have the documentation in hand, send your notification of illness including the documentation to studenterservice@science.ku.dk.
If you fall ill during your course, you can contact SCIENCE Student Services to get guidance on your options.
Certificate
At KUnet, it is possible to check your exam results and print them.
To have credits transferred, you will need a certified print of your results. You can get this by order it at SCIENCE Student Services, and the certificate will be sent to you within a week.
Who to Contact?
If you have any questions, you are very welcome to contact a study and career guidance counsellor in SCIENCE Student Services.