Apply for a Bachelor's top-up programme

The admission requirements are a completed Academy Profession Degree or equivalent. 

You must have passed your qualifying exam by 1 July.

See the admission requirements for Digital Concept Development here

All applicants for our 1½-year Bachelor’s top-up degrees will be evaluated according to the following criteria:

• Your average from your qualifying exam (weighted average)
• Professional experience (if any) gained after your qualifying examination (min. 30 hours per week for at least 16 consecutive weeks).
  • This documentation must be either pay slips (for at least 16 consecutive weeks) or a completed employer’s declaration (pdf). If the professional experience is gained in a foreign country we only accept a completed employer’s declaration.

If you have an AP degree from Denmark taught in Danish, you must have passed English at level B from the Danish upper secondary examination, or have passed an internationally approved English test.

We accept these tests with the following minimum scores:

• IELTS Academic: 6,5
• IELTS Indicator: 6,5
• TOEFL: 4,5 or 94
• TOEFL iBT Home Edition: 4,5 or 94
• Cambridge C1 Advanced: 180
• Cambridge C2 Proficiency: 200
• Oxford Online Placement test: C1 (min. 85 in each part). We only accept this test when it is completed at Business Academy Aarhus (sign up here) or through one of our officially approved partner agencies

Please note that the English test is valid for 2 years.

If you have an AP degree from Denmark taught in English, you fulfil the English requirement.

If you do not have an AP degree from Denmark, you must have passed English at a level equivalent to English level B of a Danish upper secondary examination. This means that international applicants must have had English for at least 210 hours* during the last three years of their upper secondary education or you must pass an internationally approved English test.

We accept these English tests with the following minimum scores:

• IELTS Academic: 6,5
• IELTS Indicator: 6,5
• TOEFL: 4,5 or 94
• TOEFL iBT Home Edition: 4,5 or 94
• Cambridge C1 Advanced: 180
• Cambridge C2 Proficiency: 200
• Oxford Online Placement test: C1 (min. 85 in each part). We only accept this test when it is completed at Business Academy Aarhus (sign up here) or through one of our officially approved partner agencies

Please note that the English test is valid for 2 years.

Complete your English test at Business Academy Aarhus

* Note that classes of less than 60 minutes, must be converted into whole hours.

Complete your English test at Business Academy Aarhus

15 March at 12 midday

• If you have a foreign qualifying exam

• If you are applying for admission with special permission

• If you are applying for readmission for the same programme

1 July at 12 midday

• If you have a Danish qualifying exam (including applicants completing an AP degree from Denmark before 1 July)

All documentation must be attached when the application deadline expires.

We will contact you at nemStudie, if documentation is missing for your application.

You must apply for Digital Concept Development through nemStudie

You can apply from 1 February. 

Before we can process your application, we need all the appropriate documents as proof of the information you have provided in your application.

See what documentation you have to send with your application

Do you have a qualifying exam from a country outside of the EU? Or are you a citizen from a country outside of the EU? Then you are a non-EU applicant.

See special conditions for non-EU applicants

You can prioritise the programmes, you want to apply for – but be aware of the following:

• If you are accepted into a lower priority, you will not be placed on the waiting list for your 1st priority.
• If you apply for admission to one programme and are not accepted straight away, you will be placed on the waiting list if there are any available study places.
• If you apply for admission to several of our programmes and are not accepted into any of them, you will be placed on a waiting list for all the programmes you applied to. You will be offered a place on whichever programme gets to your name first on their waiting list. This might not be your 1st priority.
• You will only be offered one place, one time. So, if you say no, you will not be put on the waiting list for any of the other programmes you applied for. You will then need to stay up to date with any available study places

See the most recent lowest average admission quotas for each programme

You can calculate your weighted average using the Excel sheet below. You must enter your marks and the associated ECTS credits. Please note that this average only provides a guideline.

Calculate your average (Excel)

We will only create classes on a programme, as well as study lines and specialisations, provided there are enough qualified applicants for the study start in question.

You will be contacted directly if the programme, study line or specialisation that you requested in your application is not created anyway.

While you are studying a programme with us, your options for, for example, specialisations and electives depend on whether there are enough students so that the programme in question will be created.

You will get an answer on 6 July.

Where do I get the answer?

You’ll get the answer on nemStudie. 

I haven't received my answer!

Even though you have applied for several of our programmes, you will only get one answer. You will only get an answer from the programme that has accepted you.

If you are not offered a place on any programme, you will receive a letter of rejection. Your rejection letter contains guidance on what steps to take – including information on your options for complaining about the ruling.

The study place is only yours if you accept it on nemStudie before the deadline.

See all important dates here

When you have accepted your study place, you will receive a new message in nemStudie with more information about your study start.

Your first day of study will be Thursday 27 August 2026.

See other important dates here