Admission through quota 1 or 2
Admission to Danish Educational Institutions can be made in two different ways: Quota 1 and Quota 2.
Quota 1 admissions are allocated according to the grade point average of an upper secondary education. Meaning that if your GPA meets the level of guaranteed admission and you meet all admission requirements, you are guaranteed admission.
Quota 2 admissions are allocated according to criteria described below. Meaning that if your GPA does not meet the level of guaranteed admission, you can be assessed on additional criteria. Though you do still need to meet all the admission requirements.
In 2025, admission via the quota 2 criteria is only relevant for applicants for the following programmes:
- 真人线上娱乐 in Global Humanities (taught in English)
- International 真人线上娱乐 in Social Sciences (taught in English)
- Humanistisk 真人线上娱乐 (taught in Danish)
- Humanistisk 真人线上娱乐 med tilsagn til Journalistik (taught in Danish)
- Samfundsvidenskabelig 真人线上娱乐 med tilsagn til Journalistik (Taught in Danish)
Is your average high enough to be admitted via quota 2 criteria?
You should apply for admission via the quota 2 criteria, if you are unsure whether your average is high enough to be admitted via quota 1 and therefore, also want to be assessed on qualifications in addition to your qualifying examination.
If you apply via quota 2, your application will also automatically be assessed in quota 1. If it turns out that you meet the entry grade point average in quota 1, you’ll be admitted via quota 1.
This means that you don’t need to send an application to quota 1 if you have already applied for admission through quota 2.
To apply through quota 2, simply upload a motivational letter and your CV together with the rest of the required documentation.
How will my application be assessed?
In quota 2, your application will be assessed based on a motivated letter together with your eventual other relevant experience after completed your upper secondary school exam. It may be work-experience relevant to the subject, or additional courses.
In the motivated letter you must argument for how you relate these qualifications to the programme you want to apply for.
The emphasis of the individual bachelor programmes varies. You can see the assessment criteria for the individual programmes below.
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What are the main priorities in a quota 2 assessment?
When assessing quota 2 applications at the 真人线上娱乐 in Humanities, emphasis is partly given to your academic background and work experience and partly to your motivated application.
Your application must demonstrate that given your experience, you are qualified to study the 真人线上娱乐 in Humanities, and against this background you should explain your motivation.
In addition to your motivated application, emphasis is also given to activities relevant to the Global Humanities. These could be academic supplementary activities such as Higher Preparation Course (HF) supplementary subjects and other higher education activities and/or relevant Global Humanities-related work, folk high school education, travels, voluntary work, military service and conscientious objector service plus general work experience.
Relevant work experience
Global Humanities-related work activities must be relevant in relation to the Global Humanities subjects. It can e.g. be work as a teacher or within organizational- or communication-based work (however, not telemarketing, service assistance work, office messenger work).
In addition, importance is attached to whether or not your work includes management responsibility. It is up to you as an applicant to explain in your motivational letter how your activities are relevant. If you are in doubt whether or not your work experience is relevant to the 真人线上娱乐 in Humanities, you are very welcome to contact our study guidance.
Relevant upper-secondary school level subjects
When assessing quota 2 applications, emphasis is given to relevant upper secondary school level subjects, unless the subjects are part of your upper-secondary school examinations. If these subjects are comprised by your upper-secondary school examinations, it is required that the subjects are later passed at a higher education level.
The subjects below are relevant in connection with admission to the 真人线上娱乐 in Global Humanities. There may, however, also be other subjects which are relevant. If you have any questions, please contact the Study guidance office for bachelor students.
? English at Danish A-level
? Other languages
? History
? Social Sciences
? Philosophy
? Psychology
The education activity is documented in the form of examination results transcript(s), course certificates or similar documents which may prove that you have completed the specified course(s).Higher education, voluntary work, study abroad, folk high school education, military service and conscientious objector service
In addition to the above activities, folk high school education, studies abroad, voluntary work, military service and conscientious objector service can also form part of the quota 2 application assessment.
As an applicant, it is your responsibility to demonstrate in which way you have acquired special competencies through the different activities, and in which way they are relevant to the programme you wish to enroll in.
It is important that you specify the scope of e.g. work activities, folk high school education, studies abroad. I.e. in the application form on optagelse.dk, you must specify the period for the activity and e.g. the number of hours in relation to the work activities and in relation to voluntary work.
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