Guest students

Guest Students

BEng, BSc, or MSc students from another institution of higher education 
You can take courses as guest students at DTU if you are enrolled as a full-time student in another higher education programme. To be enrolled as a guest student, your educational institution must pre-approve that you can transfer the DTU courses to the programme on which you are currently enrolled.

For guest students from other Danish educations institutions, DTU must receive the pre-approval no later than 14 days before the semester starts.

DTU’s courses can be found on DTU’s website at www.kurser.dtu.dk.

The following special rules apply to guest students:

Admission requirements
Guest students must comply with the general admission requirements for the engineering programmes.

If you want to take BSc courses, you need to have completed your high school diploma or equivalent (see entry requirements at dtu.dk). If you want to take MSc courses, you need to have completed your qualifying education (BSc or BEng degree).

If you have a foreign exam you do not have to pass a Danish language test to be admitted.

Registration for courses
Guest students from another Danish institution of higher education register for courses electronically on DTU’s website, where you can also see the deadlines for registration.

Guest students from non-Danish Universities (exchange students) must register for courses according to the same deadlines for course registration as DTU's full-degree students. Foreign guest students are only admitted through exchange agreements, and course registration is done via the Study Planner.

Guest students from non-Danish Universities register for courses via ‘Studieplanlæggeren’.

Price
Participation in courses and exams is free of charge for guest students.

Courses
Most courses are open to guest students. As a guest student, you will be enrolled in courses by the Study Administration. 

Drawing lots
In any drawing of lots for places on a course with a limited number of participants, full-time students who register within the registration deadline will be allocated a place before any guest students.

Exams
You can only take an exam if you are enrolled in the preceding class. Course registrations are transferred as exam registrations approximately 14 days before the deadline for registration for the exam. If you fail an exam, you have the same rights to take re-exams and make-up exams as full-time students (see student.dtu.dk under ‘Exam’). You register for re-exams by contacting the Study administration via email at studadm@adm.dtu.dk in the following periods:

  • 15 October-1 November for participation in re-exams in December
  • 1-15 April for participation in re-exams in May