Who can be a guest student?

Guest Students from another Danish University

If you are already enrolled in a professional bachelor programme or a bachelor- or master programme at another Danish university, you apply for enrolment on the same terms as Danish students. It is a prerequisite for admission that you have a pre-approval for credit transfer to your study programme from the Board of Studies at your home university.  

Applications:

  • Apply from the 15th of November (spring semester)
  • Apply from the 15th of May (autumn semester)

Application deadline:

  • 20th January (spring semester)
  • 20th August (autumn semester)

When will you get an answer to your application? 

  • Week 51 (spring semester) - If you apply no later than 10 December
  • Week 1 (spring semester) - If you apply after 10 December

  • Week 26 (autumn semester)

We process the applications as we receive them, and we admit students until the term starts. There are a limited number of study places in all courses and the available places are allocated on a 'first come - first served' basis. Apply at least 1 week before the term starts. The semester begins in week 5 (spring semester) and in week 35 (autumn semester).


Apply as a guest student




Programme specific requirements

Requirements for MSc courses

In order to apply to be a guest student for a course on MSc level you need:

  • to have completed a bachelor degree
  • a pre-approval from your university

Specific requirements for BSc in Global Business Informatics

  • Danish at A level, no required mark but the subject must be passed
  • Mathematics corresponding to the Danish B-level with an average mark of at least 6 on the Danish 7-point marking scale of the marks included in the subject on your certificate (there is no grade requirement if you have passed Mathematics corresponding the Danish A-level).
  • English corresponding to the Danish B-level with an average mark of at least 6 on the Danish 7-point marking scale of the marks included in the subject on your certificate (there is no grade requirement if you have passed English corresponding the Danish A-level).

Specific requirements for BSc in Digital Design and Interactive Technologies

  • Danish at A level, no required mark but the subject must be passed
  • Mathematics at B-level with an average mark of at least 6 on the 7-point marking scale for those marks included in the subject on your certificate 
  • English at B-level with an average mark of at least 6 on the 7-point marking scale for those marks included in the subject on your certificate

Specific requirements for BSc in Software Development

  • Danish at A level, no required mark but the subject must be passed
  • Mathematics at A-level with an average mark of at least 6 on the 7-point marking scale for those marks included in the subject on your certificate
  • English at B-level with an average mark of at least 6 on the 7-point marking scale for those marks included in the subject on your certificate There is no grade requirement if the subject is passed on an A-level.

Specific requirements for BSc in Data Science

  • Mathematics corresponding to the Danish A-level with an average mark of at least 6.0 on the Danish 7-point marking scale of the marks included in the subject on your certificate.
  • English corresponding to the Danish B-level with an average mark of at least 6.0 on the Danish 7-point marking scale of the marks included in the subject on your certificate (there is no grade requirement if you have passed English corresponding to the Danish A-level).

Do you have questions about exemption from the admission requirements? Click on 'read more' button below and find information about exemption.

Exemption from admission requirements

Mathematics A
If you do not fulfil the specific admission requirement in mathemetics A, you can apply for an exemption. The requirement for an exemption is that you have already passed mathematical courses at university level with high grades.
To apply, please upload relevant documentation for the passed courses in you application at 'optagelsesportalen', and name it 'Application for exemption - Math A'. 
 
Danish A 
Foreign applicants must have passed 'Studieprøven i Dansk' to be granted an exemption for the Danish A requirement (Passed - no specific grade required). 
To apply, please upload relevant documentation for the passed course in you application at 'ansøgningsportalen', and name it 'Application for exemption - Danish A'. 

'Studieprøven i Dansk' is not a requirement if: 

  • The course(s) you are applying for is taught in English 
  • You have completed an upper secondary school education from one of the Nordic countries and passed Danish, Svedish or Norwegian 
  • You have completed an upper secondary school education from Faroe Islands and passed Faroese A
  • You have completed an International Baccalaureate (IB) and passed either "Danish A1, Standard Level", "Danish A Literature, Standard Level' or "Danish B Higher Level". Please note, "Danish B, Standard Level" does not meet the Danish A requirement 
  • You have graduated from a short or a medium-term higher education in Danish 
  • For Global Business Informatics only: if you have passed the final exam in Danish in the primary school or you have achieved the graduation certificate from Danes World Wide

Please be aware that the exemption from the Danish A requirement is only given to course(s) offered to guest students. You must apply for an exemption, if you apply to a full-time BSc Programme and do not meet the Danish A requirement.  

English B
The following English tests meet the English requirement:

  • TOEFL paper-based test result of at least 600
  • TOEFL iBT test result of at least 100 
  • TOEFL iBT Special Home Edition test result of at least 100
  • IELTS (academic) test result of at least 7.0 
  • Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE) passed
  • Cambridge Certificate of Advanced English (CAE) with min. 167

Test results older than two years old on the 1st of January (year of admission) are not considered. ITU's TOEFL code is 9015. The IELTS does not have university codes. 

 

Courses for guest students

Here is a list of courses available for guest students.


Course nameLevelTime and placeApplyLanguage
The course is a hands-on introduction to the tools that are necessary to design and develop physical artefacts.
MSc
Forår 2025Summer 2025Infoen

Understanding creative work as processes that take place within organizational and cultural settings under different kind of leadership and management, the course focuses on the simultaneously constraining and enabling ways these structures influence creativity and innovation. 

MSc
Forår 2025Summer 2025Infoda
In this course, the students learn how to evaluate, design and prototype products based on latest artificial intelligence technologies.
MSc
Forår 2025Summer 2025Infoen

This course examines organizations in light of contemporary challenges with digitalization. It explores organizational perspectives on digitalization and cover theories that can help us better understand, and critically reflect upon, such profound challenges, while also offering hands-on approaches to managing them. Furthermore, it investigates questions of the changing nature of work, and themes such as leadership, management, and organizing in order to make students both knowledgeable about, and skilled in the practice of, and engaging with, digital transformation.

MSc
Forår 2025Summer 2025Infoen

This course provides an introduction to Information Security Risk Management. The course enables students to lead risk assessments, and reflect on the applicability of different techniques for risk assessment and management.

BSc
Forår 2025Summer 2025Infoen
The course is a hands-on introduction to the tools that are necessary to design and develop physical artefacts.
MSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen-
The course covers fundamental techniques for developing data management and data analytics applications.
MSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen
The course covers fundamental techniques for developing data management and data analytics applications.
BSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen
The main outcome of the course is that students are equipped with an understanding of the most important concepts, themes and positions in philosophy of science, and how they relate to digital design and interactive technologies. Furthermore, the students should learn to reflect critically about how digital design and technology relate to the world at large.
BSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen-

The goal of the course is two-fold. On the one side you will learn how to clean, manipulate, process and visualize data in Python with a specific focus on unstrucured data that is typically produced online. On the other side, you will learn how to formulate hypothesys based on this data that can be used in the context of the evaluation or the re-design of a digital product.

BSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen
Kursets mest centrale resultat er at de studerende bliver udstyret med en grundig forståelse af kvalitative forskningstilgange og -metoder og evnen til at anvende kvalitative undersøgelsesmetoder til undersøgelser samt formidling af resultaterne.
BSc
Efterår 202520252Infoda
På dette kursus arbejder de studerende i grupper med at udvikle prototyper på koncepter for digitale løsninger i samarbejde med private eller offentlige virksomheder baseret på relevante teorier, metoder, værktøjer og teknikker, som introduceres på kurset eller ligger i forlængelse af tidligere kurser.
BSc
Efterår 202520252Infoda
This course gives an introduction to technical communication. It focuses on designing different forms of communication correctly, effectively, and convincingly. There will be a theoretical introduction to the importance and principles of technical communication together with several individual and group based practical exercises.
BSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen-
The course is an introduction to software engineering and software development for data science. The goal of the course is to allow students to join professional software engineering teams that include data scientist and data analysts.
BSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen-

This is a course in mathematics covering linear algebra and analysis (calculus) of functions of several variables. These are perhaps the two areas of mathematics that have found most uses in practical applications. In particular, the course equips the student with mathematical tools necessary for analysis of big data.

BSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen-
This course gives a fundamental introduction to machine learning (ML) with an emphasis on statistical aspects. In the course, we focus on both the theoretical foundation for ML and the application of ML methods.
BSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen-
Networks are all around us: We are ourselves, as individuals, the units of a network of social relationships of different kinds; the Internet and the highway system can be modelled as networks embedded in space; networks can be also entities defined in an abstract space, such as networks of acquaintances or collaborations  between individuals. This course aims at providing the computational tools to study these networks and form the basis of network scientists. The final objective is to have the students to solve practical network problems, to be able to perform a network analysis, and to fully appreciate the difficulties of a network problem in real-world data. The course will have a special focus on social networks.
BSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen-

This hands-on course teaches you how the design, implementation, and implications, of systems software influence your task as an application programmer. You will get an in-depth understanding of how hardware and the operating system work; in the process, you will learn how computers actually work, and what actually happens when you run an application. This enables you to fully exploit underlying hardware and systems software to write high-quality software.

BSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen-
This is an introductory course on information security and privacy for data science. The course focuses on aspects of principles and techniques of protecting the security and privacy of data that is collected for data analysis.
BSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen-
Contemporary organizations critically rely on enterprise systems to support their business processes. In this course, students learn to analyze work systems in organizations and to identify ways for improving them. Students acquire these skills by analyzing a real-world work system and by gaining hands-on experience suggesting requirements for a sociotechnical system that supports the work system.
BSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen-
Students learn about the concept of computational thinking and get a hands-on introduction to programming using the Python programming language.
BSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen-
The course will enable the students to analyse a supply chain and identify solutions where information technology can optimise the collaboration between actors in the supply chain network.
BSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen-
In this course, students will learn to analyse and reflect upon the role of IT and culture in global collaborations.
BSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen-
The overall aim of the course is to enable students to conduct an organizational analysis. The course introduces students to particular forms of organizational analysis as well as a broad spectrum of organization theories. More specifically, the aim is to enable students to draw on organizational theory in the analysis of what we nominally characterize as events; the purposeful organization of concerted action towards specific goals, and to situate this approach in a broader landscape of organizational theories. 
BSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen-

Discrete Mathematics covers different topics in mathematics, which support many disciplines in software development. The goal of this course is to give the students the ability to apply formal reasoning. The first part of the course is dedicated to learning how to construct logical proofs, proofs on set theory and proofs by induction, while the second half of the course builds upon the first part to cover number-theoretical concepts, graphs, combinatorics, discrete probabilities, and models of computation. The student will obtain the fundamental skill of computational thinking and will be better equipped to tackle technical subjects throughout the curriculum. The course is an introduction to discrete mathematics as a foundation to work within the fields of computer science, information technologies, and software development. The course develops the necessary terminology and conceptual tools needed for later courses.

This includes:

  • formal reasoning, proofs, logic, set theory, sequences and sums
  • number theory, combinatorics and (discrete) probability theory
  • induction, recursion and counting
  • relations and functions
  • basic graph theory, language theory
  • theory and models of computation, such as finite state machines, regular expressions and grammars
The course aims at providing a basic understanding of the mathematical foundations of computer science.
BSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen-
This course teaches the theoretical and practical foundations for distributed computing.
BSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen
The Analysis, Design, and Software Architecture course (BDSA) is part of the Bachelor in Software Development (BSWU). In this course, students will discover software engineering from a theoretical and practical perspective. Students will learn about the history of software engineering, software processes, and will be exposed to concepts, principles, techniques, tools, and technologies related to object-oriented analysis, design, and programming. The course comprises of two lecture blocks and three exercise blocks. Weekly exercises will be given to students to gain hands on practice of the concepts taught in class.
BSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen

This course will introduce students to techniques for solving complex programming tasks arising in modern IT systems. The focus in the course is on algorithm design and analysis.

MSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen-

This course addresses advanced programming techniques, with a special attention on functional programming and its applications. The course is a perfect balance of theory and practice, with focus on the Scala programming language.

MSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen-

The course is designed to enable the student to engage with future developments in software engineering by providing a forum for the critical discussion of processes, methods, tools, and architectures. By combining theoretical insights from state-of-the-art research and hands-on experience with advanced tools and techniques, students gain a comprehensive understanding of software engineering.

MSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen-

This course is an advanced course on algorithms which builds on top of an introductory course on algorithms and data structures. The course focuses on advanced techniques for identifying and solving computationally hard problems and on how to adapt such techniques to real-world scenarios.

MSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen-

This course is about that part of programming that focuses on parallelism and concurrency. It covers concurrency concepts that are universal to any programming language. The Java programming language is the main language used for practically addressing such aspects; and Erlang is also used for a topic in the course.


MSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen-
Creating aesthetic user experiences requires designers to pay attention to all the subjective, sensorial and emotional qualities that can make a design delightful, pleasant and interesting to users. This course offers a theoretical and methodological foundation for thinking about aesthetics in your design projects. The course is structured around practical design projects addressing challenges from external partners in the cultural sector and/or the creative industries.
MSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen
The goal of the course is to address current and future potentials of blockchain-based technologies for a range of (inter-)organizational purposes in a digital economy.



MSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen-

The course will teach students to analyse complexity within an empirical case that explores a current topic within the fields of science, technology, and innovation.


MSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen-
The course zooms in on the ongoing digital transformation of the Danish public sector and provides analytical and methodological tools for understanding and working with digitalization processes across governmental institutions and the private organisations that underpin their transformation.
MSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen
Students learn to analyse and critically engage with games and related theoretical topics.
MSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen-
This course teaches fundamental techniques for using C++ efficiently to implement 2D and 3D games.
MSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen-
The course conveys the necessary tools for analysing games and player cultures from a comprehensive variety of angles, ranging from classic play theories and semiotics to transmedia and gender studies. It engages with games and play from a historical perspective, establishing a common ground for communication about games and player cultures among students from different backgrounds.
MSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen-
This course teaches the design and development of video games from prototyping to effective teamwork across disciplinary boundaries. It also covers the most important technical and theoretical foundations of game development.
MSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen-
This course teaches how to explore technologies for their potential in regards to play.
MSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen-
The course introduces basic theoretical and practical approaches to programming and game engine functionality using the C# language. It is intended for students with little or no prior experience with programming. The course teaches how to build games-related software using a game engine (Unity engine). The teaching emphasizes small programming exercises.
MSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen-
This course teaches the foundation of constructing user interfaces for computer systems. This problem is likely harder than you might think: computer programs very often perform complex tasks, yet users demand and need simple interfaces. Producing such interfaces requires an understanding of both the user—e.g., what are they trying to accomplish? what do they know already?—and the technology—e.g., how can we  implement a in a given UI framework the interactions that we want to present the user with, how do we interact with a backend API? In this course, students will develop both their design knowledge, but also their technical skills.
MSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen-
In this course, you will learn how to implement some widely-used algorithms as fast and scalable programs on modern hardware, and how to evaluate your implementation using appropriate test cases and performance experiments.
MSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen-
This is a hands-on course that teaches the basic principles of computer security. You will get in-depth experience with cyberattacks, and how to prevent them. The course projects enable you to personalize the course to match your unique background.
MSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen-
This course addresses the technical issues that emerge during the big data life cycle including collection, management, processing, and analytics. We discuss modern approaches to organising and reasoning about large, fast growing and diverse data-sets. We cover the principles of big data analysis, and illustrate a hands-on approach to big data modelling and management.
MSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen-

This course gives an introduction to the field of data mining. The course is relatively practically oriented, focusing on applicable algorithms. Practical exercises will involve both use of a freely available data mining package and individual implementation of algorithms.

MSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen-
The course is an introduction to discrete mathematics as a foundation to work within the fields of computer science, information technologies, and software development.
MSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen-
This course teaches the theoretical and practical foundations for distributed computing.
MSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen

In this course students will learn to apply modern state-of-the-art solutions for natural language processing problems. We go beyond simple classification tasks, and tackle more advanced types of tasks, like generation and structured prediction. 

MSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen

Networks are all around us: We are ourselves, as individuals, the units of a network of social relationships of different kinds; the Internet and the highway system can be modelled as networks embedded in space; networks can be also entities defined in an abstract space, such as networks of acquaintances or collaborations between individuals. This course aims at providing the computational tools to study these networks and form an advanced understanding of the current state of the art of network science. The final objective is to have the students master computational techniques to solve advanced network problems, to be able to contribute to the development of network analysis, and to appreciate the limitations and future developments of scientific papers dealing with network problems in real-world data.

 

MSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen

Kursets formål er at give en dybere praktisk og teoretisk forståelse for implementation af programmeringssprog, herunder især maskinmodellen bag Java, C# og F#. Kursusemnerne omfatter leksikalsk analyse, grammatikker, syntaksanalyse, abstrakt syntaks, stakmaskiner, virtuelle maskiner, mellemkodesprog (inklusive JVM og .NET CLI), og continuations. Endvidere implementering af fortolkere, typeinferens, oversættere for en delmængde af C og for en delmængde af SML, garbage collectors, og kodegenerering for virtuelle maskiner og maskinkode (fx x86).

BSc
Efterår 202520252Infoda

This is an introductory course on information security. The course focuses on introductory aspects of analysis, design and implementation of secure software.

BSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen

This hands-on course teaches you how the design, implementation, and implications, of systems software influence your task as an application programmer. You will get an in-depth understanding of how hardware and the operating system work; in the process, you will learn how computers actually work, and what actually happens when you run an application. This enables you to fully exploit underlying hardware and systems software to write high-quality software.

MSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen
Dette kursus vil sætte de studerende i stand til at forstå, artikulere og arbejde kritisk med værdier og etik i avancerede og komplekse design kontekster.
MSc
Efterår 202520252Infoda

Today we rarely use programs that are developed to fit one specific customer. When we play games, use business systems for administration, or download apps to our phones, we use software that is part of software ecosystems: software products that are configured to fit a specific business context; platforms that allow sharing of specific kinds of software; or software as a service. Examples of software ecosystems have developed around software products, like game engines, or enterprise resource planning (ERP or CRM) software, integrated development environments like visual studio and platforms like the Android operating system. 

In this course you explore software ecosystems from UX design, organizational and technical perspectives. To this end you will analyse a software ecosystem together, propose an improvement related to the ecosystem, and support your proposal with a prototype and / or other design artefacts.


MSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen

This course enables students to understand the effects of automated digital systems on the way a welfare society is governed and experienced by social groups and individuals.

MSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen

The course aims at giving the students an introduction to the complexities of determining how processes of digitalisation and green transitions are entangled.

MSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen

The course aims at giving the students an introduction to the complexities of determining how processes of digitalisation and green transitions are entangled.

BSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen

Students attending this course will study how to design game code that is scalable and takes into account hardware and software resources.

MSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen

This course examines organizations in light of contemporary challenges with digitalization. It explores organizational perspectives on digitalization and cover theories that can help us better understand, and critically reflect upon, such profound challenges, while also offering hands-on approaches to managing them. Furthermore, it investigates questions of the changing nature of work, and themes such as leadership, management, and organizing in order to make students both knowledgeable about, and skilled in the practice of, and engaging with, digital transformation.

MSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen

The course gives an in-depth introduction to fundamental principles of probability theory.


BSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen

The goal of the course is to teach the understanding, design, implementation, and use of modern artificial intelligence (AI) techniques for generating efficient, intelligent behaviors in games and other simulation environments. A particular focus is given to techniques applied to agent-based simulations.

MSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen
Dette kursus vil give de studerende teoretiske og metodiske forudsætninger for at studere, analysere og forstå interaktioner og relationer mellem mennesker og digitale teknologier i situeret praksis. Indenfor rammen af antropologiske og sociologiske teknologistudier, vil kurset træne de studerendes evner til at udføre empiriske studier, samt at analysere og reflektere kritisk over implikationer af digitale teknologier I specifikke situationer og sammenhænge.
MSc
Efterår 202520252Infoda

The course is for students looking for an introduction to strategic management to be able to understand and navigate todays and tomorrows business world.

The student will be given a toolbox of academic frameworks and models to be able to analyze current business situations and propose strategic changes. Through case studies and group work the student will become familiar with the business language which will help to bridge the gap between business and technology.

BSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen
This course will introduce basic concepts and techniques for designing and analysing cryptographic protocols with a focus on privacy preserving computation and blockchain protocols. We will cover both the main constructions of such protocols and the theoretical models used for proving their security.
BSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen
This course will introduce basic concepts and techniques for designing and analysing cryptographic protocols with a focus on privacy preserving computation and blockchain protocols. We will cover both the main constructions of such protocols and the theoretical models used for proving their security.
MSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen

The course presents the students with several perspectives on game analysis and design. The unique aspect of the course is the combination of theoretical and practical approaches. Every unit familiarizes the students with the newest development in game studies and follows it with a presentation by a practitioner. This shows the students the interplay between the academic and industry perspectives. The students must also use the topics raised during the lectures as inspiration for their game creation or their original analyses of game elements.

MSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen
BSc
Efterår 202520252Infoen