Exemption

If you have not completed a qualifying exam, you need to argue how you meet the general admission requirement by other passed study activities. You must enclose relevant documentation, for instance:

• Diploma for alternative completed degree or certificate of competence
• Transcript of records and course descriptions for passed higher education courses

Please note: We do not consider work experience.

If you do not meet one or more specific admission requirements, you need to argue how you meet the requirement(s) by corresponding qualifications. You must enclose relevant documentation, for instance:

• Transcript of records and course descriptions from higher education courses

Please notice: The university does not have the legal basis to grant exemptions for the English test for non-EU applicants. 

If you think your grade point average (GPA) has been affected by special circumstances, you need to describe the special circumstances and how they have affected your GPA. A special circumstance is unpredictable conditions which you have not been able to adjust to or take into consideration. For instance:

• Accident
• Sudden illness – physical or psychologically
• Sudden flare-up/aggravation of former known illness
• A disability, which has been diagnosed during or after the qualifying exam
• Death in the immediate family (children, spouse/cohabiting, siblings, parents, in rare cases grandparents)

You must enclose relevant documentation, for instance:

• Grades from your upper secondary school for each year
• Doctor’s note, which includes a time indication of the period, the professional assessment of how the situation has affected you
• Medical record for long-lasting illness
• Police report
• Death certificate/doctor’s note/documentation for long-lasting/terminal illness in the immediate family
• Specialist statement concerning test of dyslexia

If you think your grades in Danish, English, or Mathematics have been affected by special circumstances, you need to describe the special circumstances and how they have affected your grade(s). A special circumstance is unpredictable conditions which you have not been able to adjust to or take into consideration. For instance:

• Accident
• Sudden illness – physical or psychologically
• Sudden flare-up/aggravation of former known illness
• A disability, which has been diagnosed after the qualifying exam
• Death in the immediate family (children, spouse/cohabiting, siblings, parents, in rare cases grandparents)

You must enclose relevant documentation, for instance:

• Grades from your upper secondary school for each year
• Doctor’s note, which includes a time indication of the period, the professional assessment of how the situation has affected you
• Medical record for long-lasting illness
• Police report
• Death certificate/doctor’s note/documentation for long-lasting/terminal illness in the immediate family
• Specialist statement concerning test of dyslexia

If you have passed a deadline, you must explain how special circumstances have prevented you from meeting the deadline. You must enclose relevant documentation, for instance:

• Doctor’s note with a time indication of the period, which prevented you from meeting the deadline

If you have previously been enrolled in the study programme you apply for, but your enrolment has been terminated by ITU, you must describe why the enrolment was terminated and argue how your situation has changed for you to be able to study again and complete the study programme this time. You must enclose relevant documentation, for instance:

• Doctor’s note with a time indication of the period and the doctor’s assessment of how the situation affected your abilities to study back then and in which extend you are affected by it now
• Transcript of records if you have passed courses at another study programme after the termination of enrolment at ITU

The Master’s Rule allows applicants who have completed a Danish or a foreign master's programme to be admitted to a new higher educational programme only in case of vacant study places. Normally, we have no vacant study places at the IT University of Copenhagen.

In special cases if you are no longer able to work within the field of the completed programme, the university can exempt you from the rule. Please note, you have to apply by 15 March at 12.00 noon CET.