Admission requirements for Media and Communication

If your bachelor’s degree is on the list of degrees that have been preapproved it fulfils the specific admission requirements.  If your degree is not on the list, the Admissions Office will assess if the academic content of your educational background fulfils the specific admission requirements.

We are not able to assess your qualifications before you apply for a master’s programme.

Bachelor’s degrees in Humanities  

• Communication Studies + Business Studies
• Communication Studies + Cultural Encounters
• Communication Studies + International Studies
• Communication Studies + Social Psychology of Everyday Life
• Cultural Encounters + Business Studies
• Cultural Encounters + International Studies
• Cultural Encounters + Social Psychology of Everyday Life
• Dansk + Filosofi og videnskabsteori
• Dansk + Historie
• Dansk + Psykologi
• Journalistik + Dansk
• Journalistik + Historie
• Journalistik + Informatik
• Journalistik + International Studies
• Journalistik + Kultur- og sprogmødestudier
• Journalistik + Politik og forvaltning
• Journalistik + Socialvidenskab
• Journalistik + Sundhedsfremme og sundhedsstrategier
• Journalistik + Virksomhedsstudier
• Kommunikation + Arbejdslivsstudier
• Kommunikation + Dansk
• Kommunikation + Filosofi og videnskabsteori
• Kommunikation + Historie
• Kommunikation + Journalistik
• Kommunikation + Kultur- og sprogmødestudier
• Kommunikation + Politik og forvaltning
• Kommunikation + Psykologi
• Kommunikation + Socialvidenskab
• Kommunikation + Sundhedsfremme og sundhedsstrategier
• Kommunikation + Virksomhedsstudier
• Kultur- og sprogmødestudier + Dansk
• Kultur- og sprogmødestudier + Filosofi og videnskabsteori
• Kultur- og sprogmødestudier + Historie
• Kultur- og sprogmødestudier + International Studies
• Kultur- og sprogmødestudier + Psykologi
• Kultur- og sprogmødestudier + Pædagogik og uddannelsesstudier
• Kultur- og sprogmødestudier + Socialvidenskab
• Kultur- og sprogmødestudier + Sundhedsfremme og sundhedsstrategier
• Performance-design + Dansk
• Performance-design + Historie
• Performance-design + Informatik
• Performance-design + Kommunikation
• Performance-design + Plan, by og proces
• Performance-design + Pædagogik og uddannelsesstudier
• Performance-design + Virksomhedsstudier

Bachelor’s degrees in Humanities-Technology  

• Computer Science + Communication Studies
• Computer Science + Performance-design
• Datalogi + Communication Studies
• Datalogi + Performance-design
• Informatik + Journalistik
• Informatik + Kommunikation
• Informatik + Performance-design
• Plan, by og proces + Kommunikation
• Plan, by og proces + Performance-design
• Sundhedsfremme og sundhedsstrategier + Journalistik
• Sundhedsfremme og sundhedsstrategier + Kommunikation
• Teknologisk-samfundsvidenskabelig planlægning, TekSam + Kommunikation

Bachelor’s degrees in Social Sciences

• Arbejdslivsstudier + Kommunikation
• Business Studies + Communication Studies
• International Studies + Communication Studies
• International Studies + Journalistik
• Plan, by og proces + Kommunikation
• Plan, by og proces + Performance-design
• Politik og forvaltning + Journalistik
• Politik og forvaltning + Kommunikation
• Socialvidenskab + Journalistik
• Socialvidenskab + Kommunikation
• Sundhedsfremme og sundhedsstrategier + Journalistik
• Sundhedsfremme og sundhedsstrategier + Kommunikation
• Teknologisk-samfundsvidenskabelig planlægning, TekSam + Kommunikation
• Virksomhedsstudier + Journalistik
• Virksomhedsstudier + Kommunikation

If your bachelor’s programme is listed below you fulfill the specific admission requirements for Media and Communication.   

If your programme is not listed below, the Admissions Office will assess if the academic content of your educational background fulfils the specific admission requirements.

Only degrees from Danish and Faroese universities are currently preapproved.  

We are not able to assess your qualifications before you apply for a master’s programme.

Copenhagen Business School (CBS)

• Erhvervsøkonomi - Virksomhedskommunikation, HA (kom)

IT University of Copenhagen (ITU)

• Digitale medier og design

University of Copenhagen (KU)

• Film- og medievidenskab
• Informationsstudier
• Kommunikation og IT
• Musikvidenskab
• Retorik
• Teater- og Performance Studier

University of Southern Denmark (SDU)

• Designkultur
• Informations og kommunikationsvidenskab
• International virksomhedskommunikation  
• Journalistik
• Medievidenskab

Aarhus University (AU)

• Digitalt design – IT, æstetik og interaktion
• Informationsvidenskab
• International virksomhedskommunikation  
• Medievidenskab  
• Musikvidenskab  
• Æstetik og kultur

Aalborg University (AAU)

• Kommunikation og digitale medier (Informationsvidenskab)
• Kommunikation og digitale medier (Interaktive digitale medier)
• Kommunikation og digitale medier (Kommunikation)
• International virksomhedskommunikation i Engelsk

Preapproved professional bachelor’s degrees

• Danmarks Medie- og journalisthøjskole > Professional bachelor’s degree in Journalistik (On the condion that you pass a 10 ECTS credit summer prerequisite course at RUC prior to your entry to the master's programme)
• Danmarks Medie- og journalisthøjskole > Professional bachelor’s degree in Kommunikation

See the specific admission requirements for Media and Communication below. If your bachelor’s degree has not been preapproved, the Admissions Office will assess if the academic content of your educational background fulfils the specific admission requirements. This is based on an individual, academic assessment.

We are not able to assess your qualifications before you apply for a master’s programme

Specific admission requirements for Media and Communication

In order to qualify for admission, your bachelor's programme must contain 40 ECTS in the following subject areas:

10 ECTS of methodology and/or philosophy of science in the humanities or in the social sciences corresponding in level to at least the first year of a Danish university programme*
or
10 ECTS in communication theory and models*
 

30 ECTS in one or more of the following subject areas in communication studies and/or media studies:

• Communication studies
• Media studies
• Digital communication
  - Information studies/science
• Intercultural communication
• Planned communication
  - Campaign theory
  - Target group theory and analysis
  - Reception analysis
  - Rhetoric
• Aesthetic communication
  - Cultural studies
  - Aesthetic disciplines
  - Experience and event design/management

The University makes an individual assessment of whether your qualifications cover the above subject areas to a sufficient extend based on the documents that you upload with your application. 

*If you do not meet the requirements for theory of science and methodology, you may be offered summer prerequisite studies prior to the start of your master’s studies.

Please note that only formal qualifications (ECTS/credits) are assessed, and that the university only takes ECTS/credits passed as part of or prior to the graduation date of the bachelor’s programme into account.

If you have completed one of the following bachelor’s programmes you have a legal right  of admission (retskrav) to the master's programme in Media and Communication.

Bachelor’s degrees in Humanities

• Communication Studies + Business Studies
• Communication Studies + Cultural Encounters
• Communication Studies + International Studies
• Communication Studies + Social Psychology of Everyday Life

Bachelor’s degrees in Social Sciences

• Business Studies + Communication Studies

In order to use your legal right of admission to the master's programme in Media and Communication, you must apply for admission to the master's programme in accordance with current application deadlines and procedures.

If you apply after the application deadline you may only be admitted if the university offers vacant study places.