Language requirements

If your educational background is from the Nordic countries or the EU/EEA, it may be sufficient to document your English proficiency.

Nordic educational background

You meet SDU's general English language requirement if you have passed English at a level equivalent to B in the Danish system.

If the specific bachelor's programme requires English A, you must have passed English at a level equivalent to A in the Danish system.

EU/EEA upper secondary education

You meet SDU's general English language requirement if:

• you have passed English with a grade equivalent to at least 2.0 on the Danish 7-point scale.
• you document the number of English lessons per year and the number of years studied.

Use SDU’s Statement of Hours for documentation. It must be signed and stamped by your educational institution. You must upload the documentation with your application via optagelse.dk when applying for at programme. 

You meet the English language requirement if you have completed an upper secondary education or a bachelor’s degree programme (minimum 180 ECTS) in Canada, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain or Ireland.

The programme must have been taught entirely in English and must not have been a distance-learning programme.

If your English language proficiency is not documented through your education, you must take an approved language test.

Approved language tests for English level B 

TOEFL iBT or iBT Home Edition

• Minimum total score: 83
• No section score below 20
• Test must be no more than 2 years old
• Accepted: TOEFL iBT Special Home Edition
• Not accepted: MyBest scores, TOEFL Essentials

IELTS Academic

• Minimum overall band score: 6.5
• No section band score below 6.5
• Test must be no more than 2 years old
• Accepted: IELTS Academic Online
• Not accepted: IELTS One-Skill Retake

Cambridge English

• C1 Advanced (CAE): minimum score 180
• C2 Proficiency (CPE): accepted

Approved language tests for English level A 

• Minimum total score: 100
• No section score below 20

IELTS Academic

• Minimum overall band score: 7.0
• No section band score below 6.5

Cambridge English

• C1 Advanced (CAE): minimum score 185
• C2 Proficiency (CPE): accepted

If you hold a diploma from a Danish upper secondary school, you meet the Danish language requirement.

You meet the Danish language requirement if you have passed Swedish, Norwegian or Icelandic at a level equivalent to A in the Danish system.

You meet the Danish language requirement if you have passed Danish A as a single course at HF or if you have documentation for Danish A proficiency through an individual assessment.

You meet the Danish language requirement if you have passed "Studieprøven" (the study test) with a minimum grade of 2 in all courses.

If you wish to apply for the bachelor's programmes Medicine or Clinical Biomechanics, a minimum grade of 7 is required.