Course registration

Course registration

You registration for and withdrawal from courses via the Study Planner. No lecturer or professor can register/enroll you for a course.

Final projects, project courses, and internships have a different registration procedure. See the section further down.

You must be registered for a course to attend classes—including laboratory exercises—participate in group work, and obtain course information and teaching material (notes, etc.) via DTU Learn. If you are not registered for the course, you can contact the lecturer to access the course group. Still, access to this group does not entitle you to hand in assignments or participate in the exam.

Course registration in the first semester
As a BEng and BSc student, you are automatically registered for courses in the first teaching period (13-week period) in the first semester of your study programme. You must register for all other courses through the Study Planner.

As MSc students and guest students, you must register for courses through the Study Planner.

As a new MSc students and guest student, you must confirm that you accept DTU’s code of honour to be able to register for courses via the Study Planner. See also at student.dtu.dk under ‘Exam/Exam cheating/DTU's code of honour’.

Course registration in other semesters
You are responsible for ensuring that your course registrations have been registered correctly in your study plan and that registration for the courses has been made within the applicable registration and withdrawal deadlines.

Registration and withdrawal deadlines for courses can be found at student.dtu.dk under 'Courses and teaching/Course registration and withdrawal/Course registration deadlines'.

In the supplementary course registration period, a decision on limited admission to a course can be made on the grounds of the capacity of facilities or academic reasons. See student.dtu.dk under ‘Participation in limited admission courses’ under ‘Teaching’. Therefore, you must be aware that participation in a course may not be possible if you register for the course in the supplementary course registration period, even if limited admission is not noted in the course description.

Registration for final projects, internships, and special courses
You cannot register for final projects, internships, or special courses yourself. Registration takes place via the Project Reporting System, and the supervisor of the final project, special courses and the internship supervisor can register you via this system. Once the supervisor has registered the activity in the project reporting system, you will receive an email in your study email when it is approved.

Once a project is finally approved, it will appear in the Study Planner as an exam registration during the exam period and not as a course registration during the teaching period.

Registration for courses under the transitional procedure for the master's programme
Information on how to register for courses under the transitional procedure can be found at student.dtu.dk under Study rules/Transferring to an MSc programme.

What courses can I choose?
You cannot register for a course you have already passed. A course has been passed if the grade 02 or the assessment ‘Pass’ has been awarded. Reregistrations for passed courses will be rejected.

You can register for courses that form part of your curriculum. If you want to regsiter for other courses, that are not part of your curriculum, the courses must be pre-approved by your Head of Study before registration. Your Head of Study must send the approval to the Office for Study Programmes and Student Affairs via email: studadm@adm.dtu.dk. 

BSc students may have as many as 10 ECTS credits at the BEng level as part of the Elective Courses in their bachelor's programme.

MSc students may have as many as 10 ECTS credits at the BSc level.
MSc students are not allowed to register for BEng courses. Neither the Head of Studies nor the Board of Exemptions can exempt students from this.

Some courses are only provided for students in selected study programmes. That will be stated in the course description. If you do not attend these study programmes, you will not be granted access to the course.

You are not allowed to register for courses beyond the number of ECTS credits required by the programme and you must plan your studies according to the prescribed number of ECTS credits for the programme.

You may register for courses as self-paid single subjects, but you cannot take single subjects as part of your programme specification or have single subjects approved by your head of studies as part of your programme. You may register for courses as single subjects if there is no room for the course within your current programme framework.

Elective courses
BEng students
In the BEng programme, lists of optional courses that you can freely choose from are available in the individual curricula, and all the courses have already been pre-approved by the head of studies. If you want to take a BEng or BSc course that is not on the list, it must be approved in advance by your head of studies. The head of study must send the approval to the Study Administration. You may not take MSc courses. Exceptions are MSc courses pre-approved for inclusion at the bachelor's level in the individual BEng programme. These courses will appear in the curriculum.

BSc students enrolled in study programmes/curricula valid before September 2023
In the BSc programme, you can choose freely from all courses at DTU at the bachelor's and master's levels. It is also possible to choose from all BEng courses, but these may not exceed 10 ECTS credits in total. Courses cannot be taken at the PhD level.

As a BEng or BSc student enrolled in study programmes valid before September 2023, if you are bound by a master's course that you have not passed, you can request to be released from the course by writing to studiedispensation@adm.dtu.dk via your student email with a reason and stating which other course you wish to take instead. You must register for the new course. Read about the general rules on binding courses at student.dtu.dk under 'Study rules'/'Teaching'/'Binding courses'.

BSc students enrolled in study programmes/curricula valid from September 2023
In the BSc programme, you can choose freely from all courses at DTU at bachelor's level. It is also possible to choose from all BEng courses, but these may not exceed 10 ECTS credits in total. MSc courses may not be taken. Exceptions are master's courses that, by the Head of Studies, are pre-approved for inclusion at the bachelor's level in the individual BSc programme. These courses will appear in the curriculum.

MSc students
In the MSc programme, all courses at the master's and PhD levels at DTU are pre-approved. All bachelor's courses at DTU will also be pre-approved, but may not exceed 10 ECTS credits in total. MSc students are not allowed to take courses at the BEng level. Neither the Head of Studies nor the Board of Exemptions can exempt students from this.

Courses outside DTU: The rules for this are specified at student.dtu.dk under 'Study rules'/'Credit transfer/'Credit transfer during the study programme'.

Students who have completed MSc courses in their BEng or BSc programme
MSc students who, as part of their qualifying BEng or BSc education, have passed a course corresponding to courses in the group of programme specific courses (previously called general competence group or the technological specialization group) for the MSc programme must take a different course that contributes to the overall learning outcomes of the programme in question. That also applies if the student otherwise has acquired academic knowledge and competencies.

DTU courses
If the course belongs to the programme specific group (previously called the general competence group or the technological specialization group), the head of study for your programme must designate a course for you to take instead in the group of programme specific courses (previously called the general competence group or the technological specialization group). You must send the written instructions from your head of study to the Study Administration at studadm@adm.dtu.dk, after which you can register for the new course.

Non-DTU courses
If it is not possible to choose a different course in line with the above rules or if the course is not from DTU, you must obtain approval from your head of study to take another course that supports the academic profile of the study programme. The head of study contacts the Study Administration. When in doubt about the programme level of the course or the conversion of the credits from abroad to ECTS credits, the head of study or you are welcome to contact merit@adm.dtu.dk.  

Cancellation of courses
A non-mandatory course may be cancelled if fewer than ten students have registered. Other rules for minimum participation must be specified in the course description.

Mandatory courses and courses from the mandatory groups cannot be cancelled. With only a few registered, the course coordinator can, with the approval of the Department Board of Studies, decide that the course is run in an alternative way, e.g. as a study group. Questions about this should be directed to the course coordinator.

If you are bound to a course, you can be released from the binding if the course is cancelled during the teaching period in which you had planned to take the course or you have lost a draw. Requests to be released from the course must be made via email to studadm@adm.dtu.dk and must be submitted in the same semester as the course was cancelled. However, you must still observe the curriculum of the study programme. Find more information on binding courses at student.dtu.dk under 'Study rules'/'Teaching'/'Binding courses'.

Rules in my study programme

Go to 'My Programme Specification' to see which study rules apply to your study programme.

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