Credit Transfer: Masterprogrammes

Credit transfer – do you have credits from master-level studies?

Pursuant Danish legislation, applicants to master-level studies are required to submit documentation for credits obtained on previous master-level programmes/courses. This rule applies to Danish and non-Danish applicants. The Royal Danish Academy uses the information about your previous master-level studies to assess if you will have some of the results credit transferred to your programme at the Academy.

If you fail to provide information about previous study results and we later discover that you have passed activities at another higher education, this may have consequences for your enrollment at the Royal Academy. 

In your digital application for the masters programmes at the Royal Danish Academy you will be asked if you have previously completed credits on master level studies/courses.

You must inform us about both the courses that you are currently enrolled in and the ones that you have already passed. 

The Academy will assess if you will be given credit for your previous master-level studies when you have been offered a study place. This will happen in June or mid August the year that you have applied for admission.
 

The procedure 2024 step by step – deadlines and notification

1. You submit your digital application and upload all relevant documentation before the application deadline 1 March 23:59 CET. 

2. If you have already completed your master level studies/courses and is no longer enrolled or active please submit documentation (see below) by 31 May 2024. 

The credit transfer committee at the Royal Danish Academy will assess if you will be given a credit transfer. 

If you have already completed your master level studies/courses and is no longer enrolled or active and have provided us with the requested documentation by 31 May 2024 we expect to send you an answer regarding credit transfer by 30 June at the latest. 

3. If you are currently and still enrolled in master level studies/courses and plan to sit for exams this summer you should not submit the documentation at this point. Instead you will be required to submit the documentation (see below) upon completion of your studies/courses by 31 July 2024 at the latest. 

The credit transfer committee at in your subject area at The Royal Danish Academy will assess if you will be given a credit transfer. 

If you are currently and still enrolled in master level studies/courses and plan to sit for exams this summer and have provided us with the requested documentation by 31 July 2024 we expect to send you an answer regarding credit transfer by 21 August at the latest. 

4. If you are awarded credit for your master-level studies, then the duration of the programme will be shorter. If you get one year of credit (60 ECTS) you will start your studies in the second year in your programme at The Royal Danish Academy. If you get a half year of credit (30 ECTS) you will start your studies in the second semester in your programme at the Academy, i.e. in the beginning of February 2025.

Which documentation do you need to upload?

The Royal Danish Academy needs the following documentation from you in order to make an assessment of your previous master level courses:

• A copy of your transcript of records form your previous studies 

• A copy of the official course description (e.g. from the course catalogue). 

If the transcript and descriptions are not written in English, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, French or German then an official translation is required.

You can read more in the Ministerial Order number 120, dated 31 January 2023, in Danish: Bekendtgørelse nr. 120 af 31/01/2023 om adgang til videregående kunstneriske uddannelser tilrettelagt på heltid.