Admission Requirements MA in Design

Admission requirements

To be eligible to apply applicants must have a Bachelor's degree in design from an accredited university or design school

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.

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. Aim to communicate what is your design profile.

• 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
• for group work, your contributions to the project should be clearly identified and described
  
  
• 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 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
Please 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.

Credits 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.