Credit transfer involves replacing parts of your degree programme with one or more courses which you pass on another degree programme.
You must submit an application for credit transfer when you have passed courses at a different university in Denmark or abroad for which advance approval has been granted.
You can also apply for credit transfer for courses for which advance approval has not been granted – for instance courses which you have passed on a previous degree programme.
You can read more about applying for credit transfer below.
You do not have to apply for credit transfer when you have passed courses at Aarhus University for which advance approval has been granted
Arts Studies Administration will ensure that credit for these courses is transferred to your degree programme. (Credit transfer takes place on an ongoing basis.)
You must apply for credit transfer when you have passed courses at Aarhus University for which advance approval has not been granted. For example courses that you have passed on a previous degree programme at Aarhus University.
You can do this by submitting an application using this form at mystudies.au.dk:
You must apply for credit transfer when you have passed courses at other Danish universities.
You can do this by submitting an application using this form at mystudies.au.dk:
You must attach the following documentation:
You must apply for credit transfer when you have passed courses at universities outside Denmark.
You can do this by submitting an application using this form at mystudies.au.dk:
You must attach the following documentation:
If you do not pass courses taken while studying abroad
NB! If you have not passed all your courses and come home with too few ECTS credits, it is important to contact a student counsellor as soon as possible to discuss your options in terms of acquiring the ECTS credits that you need.
If you have not passed enough ECTS credits, the number of ECTS credits that is transferred must be divisible by 10.
For instance:
If you need 30 ECTS credits but have only passed 24, 20 ECTS credits will be transferred. You will then need to supplement this figure with a course of at least 6 ECTS credits (in practice this will mean a course of 7.5 or 10 ECTS credits) before you can transfer the missing 10 ECTS credits. Any excessive number of ECTS credits that you gain in this way will not be registered in your degree programme.
You cannot round these ECTS credits up. In other words, if you need 30 ECTS credits but have only passed 29, you can only transfer 20 ECTS credits. You can only transfer the remaining 9 ECTS credits when you have passed a course that generates the number of outstanding ECTS credits that you need.
When you start a degree programme, you must state whether you have passed courses on previous post-secondary degree programmes that you did not complete. Based on the information that you provide, Aarhus University must decide whether one or more of the courses you have passed previously can replace courses on your new degree programme.
If your degree programme includes introductory language courses, you can apply for credit transfer if you have studied the language in question at level “A” during your upper-secondary education. Before you apply for credit transfer, we recommend that you contact a student counsellor to discuss the content and level of any such introductory language courses and what they may mean for your study plan.
You can submit an application using this form at mystudies.au.dk:
You must attach the following documentation:
If you have already completed a degree programme at an institution of higher education, you can apply for the credit transfer of courses on this programme to your current degree programme.
The board of studies will assess the courses you have passed to determine whether they comply with the academic objectives of your degree programme, making it possible to use them to replace one or more courses on your degree programme.
You can submit an application using this form at mystudies.au.dk:
Remember to attach the following documentation: