Admission Requirements MA in Architecture

Admission requirements
To be eligible to apply, applicants must have a Bachelor's degree in architecture or architectural studies from a nationally recognised school of architecture. This means that your degree must be recognised by a national architectural association or board as a degree that leads to a professional qualification as an architect.

Selection Criteria
Admission is based primarily on an assessment of Portfolio and relevant professional experience. As part of the overall assessment applicants may be called for an interview.

Below you will find further information depending on the origin of your qualifying degree.

Degree from EU institution
Bachelor degree in architecture granting admission to an m.arch. (or similar) that is recognized within the EU allowing you to practice as an architect. 

See EU Directive 2005/36/EC on the recognition of professional qualifications, annex 5.7.1., for the comprehensive list of approved degrees.

Degree from institution outside EU
Bachelor degree in architecture from recognised university or school of architecture.

Bachelor degree in architecture must be recognised and accredited by national architecture accreditation authorities as giving access to practicing as an architect, either directly or via Master degree in architecture.

In addition the following criteria apply

• Applicants whose degree is in a major-minor system, must have their major in architecture. Applicants with a minor in architecture or architectural studies are not eligible
• Applicants with degrees in all other subjects, including design, interior architecture, landscape architecture, urban & rural planning, construction, and engineering, are not eligible for admission
• Regarding eligibility with a degree from a Danish institution; only applicants with a bachelor degree in architecture from the Royal Danish Academy or Aarhus School of Architecture are eligible for admission

Pre assessment of eligibility

If you are uncertain whether your degree meets our admission requirements you may submit documents for a preassessment regarding your eligibility prior to the admission deadline. Admissions will do pre assessments until 1 February. After this date we ask you to submit your application through the applications system for a full assessment.

Eligibility does not secure admission however will confirm that you are qualified to apply and will have your application assessed by the admission committee. Please submit to admission@kglakademi.dk:

• Transcript of records
• Information on the degree you are enrolled in; link to university website will be accepted
• Information on accreditation and recognition by relevant accreditation agency

Online Application

The online application system will open 15 January. The deadline is 1 March at 11:59 p.m.

We accept the following formats: pdf, doc, docx, jpg, jpeg, mov, mpeg and png.

By submitting an application you confirm the validity and originality of the documents. Should you fail to comply with these regulations your application and any admission offer will be cancelled.

Portfolio
Technical Requirements – Your portfolio must

• be in a single document

• not exceed 10 MB
• be optimized for viewing on a standard size computer screen
• be uploaded at the time the application is submitted
  
  

Content requirements – Your digital portfolio should

• include your own most important and representative design and/or architecture work
• for group work, your contributions to the project should be clearly identified and described

• contain relevant work from your BA study and working experience if applicable
• be oriented towards the programme for which you are applying
• include a short text for each project
  
  
• We would like to remind you that plagiarism or misrepresenting the work of others as your own is an offense against intellectual property rights and is a serious breach of academic misconduct. The work you are presenting in your portfolio must be of your own creation
  
  

Additional information regarding portfolio:

• you may include hand drawings and sketches, and not only computer drawings

• we suggest that you include process work that shows the development of the chosen idea
• we do not have specific requirements regarding the number of projects or pages
  
  

Transcripts
We accept transcripts of exam records or diploma supplement in English, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, German, French, Italian, and Spanish.

Documents in all other languages must be translated into English or Danish either by a certified translator or your school/university.

For application purposes we accept a digital copy or scan of transcripts.

Bachelor degree certificate
We welcome applications from students that have already completed or is about to complete their Bachelor's degree. If you haven't completed your Bachelor's degree by the time of applying we require to receive the degree certificate by 1 August.

CV
List your educational qualifications and relevent work experience

Language proficiency
Refer to section 'Language Requirements' for information on which documents and tests are accepted.

Copy of passport (photo page)
During application you may be required to submit a scan of your passport photo page. This in order for the Royal Danish Academy to be able to validate your identity.

Credit transfer
Pursuant Danish higher education legislation, applicants are required to submit documentation for any credits on previous Master's level programmes/courses. We are obligated to evaluate whether previous obtained credits are credit transferable into your Master's. For more information please refer to https://royaldanishacademy.com/credit-transfer-ma-programmes

Documents that should not be included
Motivational letters and reference letters are not taken into consideration during general assessment for admission and we therefore ask our applicants not to include these.