Online application

All applicants must apply online via www.optagelse.dk. In order to apply you must use a Danish MitID (digital signature). If you do not have a MitID you can find guidance on how to apply without MitID at www.optagelse.dk.

You will be notified about which documentation you must upload, before you submit your application. It is your own responsibility to make sure that you have uploaded all relevant documents.

Aarhus University and the other higher education institutions in Denmark belong to a joint application system called the Coordinated Enrolment System (KOT). KOT enables you to apply for up to eight different Bachelor’s degree programmes, and ensures that you are admitted to the highest priority possible. In addition KOT makes sure that you can only be admitted to one of the Bachelor’s degree programmes you apply for.

How to fill in your application on www.optagelse.dk.

You can apply from 1 February

The application portal www.optagelse.dk opens at 1 February. 

Please note that all applications must be submitted online through www.optagelse.dk.

Applying with a Danish MitID

A digital application made with the use of MitID is received in time if the application is approved by the applicant on www.optagelse.dk before the application deadline.  Aarhus University does not receive the application before it is approved on www.optagelse.dk.

Applying without a Danish MitID

If you apply without MitID you will for each applied and approved programme receive a link to a signature page. However, in order to meet the application deadline the signature page must be printed, dated, signed and received by Aarhus University no later than 15 March at 12.00 noon in the application year. In other words the date of receipt of the signature page and NOT the date of approval of the application is the date that is considered in terms of having met the application deadline. Signature pages received after 15 March at 12.00 noon will be rejected due to exceeding of the deadline. 

The printed, dated and signed signature page must be sent through our web form.

Checklist

When you apply you must provide the following information:

• name, address and CPR number (Danish civil registration number – if you don’t have one, a temporary will be created for you, when you type your name, surname and birth date on www.optagelse.dk)
• if you would like to begin in summer or winter, if you apply for Medicine (if more students are admitted to summer start than there are available student places, we will move the youngest to winter start)
• if you would like to apply for a standby place
• if you are applying for exemption
• if you previously have been enrolled in a programme of higher education. In that case you must inform us what programmes you have been enrolled in, how many ECTS credit you have passed and state if you still are enrolled in the programme
• if you are submitting documentation after 15 March
• if you have supplemented with new upper secondary school subject levels, Danish language requirements, or an English test and when you expect to finish a possible supplementary course or test.

Along with your application you must upload:

• a certified copy of your secondary degree diploma and grade transcript (please note that we need a copy of the original diploma in the official language and normally a copy of your diploma translated into English by a certified translator if it is not already in English – if you wish to know if you can be exempted from submitting a translation please contact ba.admission@au.dk)
• documentation of relevant supplementary courses
• other educational documents (university level or other)
• documentation of subject levels (number of instruction hours in your upper secondary school and I course descriptions)
• documentation of your citizenship (passport or ID card)
• a copy of your residence permit in Denmark, if applicable
• any additional documentation you wish taken into consideration in the assessment of your application

It is very important that you upload certified copies of your documentation, signed and stamped by the issuing authority.