The admission system in Denmark The Danish Coordinated

The admission system in Denmark

The Danish Coordinated Admission • The main purpose of KOT is to coordinate the admission to higher education to make sure, that any applicant can apply for admission to up to 8 programmes, but will receive only one offer for a study place at the highest possible priority. • 2017: • 34 higher educational institutions • More than 880 education programmes: • University bachelor programmes, professional bachelor programmes and academy profession programmes (full time). • More than 90. 0000 applicants have sent 250. 000 applications. Stockholm, 27. 09. 2017 – Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education Page 2

The Danish Coordinated Admission Optagelse. dk 1. All applicants must apply at optagelse. dk 2. The Education institutions retrieves the applications from Optagelse. dk Applicants 6. The applicants receives the answer from the educational institution where they can be offered a study place Education institutions 3. KOT retrieves priority lists from Optagelse. dk 7. The applicants that are rejected to all the applied programmes receives the answer from KOT 4. KOT receives a prioritized list of applicants and the number of study places from the education institutions KOT 5. The education institutions receives the result of the coordination from KOT Stockholm, 27. 09. 2017 – Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education Page 3

Limitation of double degrees The Danish Coordinated Admission • Applicants who have already completed a higher education programme in Denmark can only be admitted to a new higher education programme on a higher level than the one already completed. E. g. an applicant with a completed bachelor can not be admitted to a new bachelor programme • Exemptions: • If your first education is more than 6 years old • If you not able to work in your first field of education due to health issues • If your education is outdated • If you want to apply for a specific programme with particular labour market needs – “The positive list” Stockholm, 27. 09. 2017 – Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education Page 4

Decrease of study places at programmes taught in English The Danish Coordinated Admission • Due to the labour market circumstances and the fact that many foreign students are returning to their home countries after completing a full programme in Denmark the study places at English taught programmes was decreased by 25 percent in 2017. • The decrease only applied for professional bachelor degrees and academy profession programmes. Stockholm, 27. 09. 2017 – Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education Page 5

Future challenges The Danish Coordinated Admission • Implications of a reform of the Danish upper secondary school system. The GPA will potentially be changed if you do a supplementary course needed for higher education. • Digital identification and signature for EU citizens (Ei. D) • Decrease of study places at programmes taught in English at the universities Stockholm, 27. 09. 2017 – Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education Page 6