After you have applied

The answer (group 1)

You will receive an answer to your application on 10th of June 2023. You only have 5 days to accept the study place, from the day you received the answer.

You will receive an email containing a direct link to your application when the answer has been uploaded in the Application Portal - remember to check your spam filter. Once logged in, you will find your letter under the tab "messages". 

Your applicant ID number is in the upper right-hand corner of the letter. Please make a note of it in case you need to contact us about your application.

If you applied to several programmes, you’ll receive a letter for each programme that was assessed. If you are accepted on one of your higher priorities, your lower priorities were not assessed and you will therefore not receive a letter regarding them.

The answer (group 2) 

You will receive an answer to your application on 15th of March 2023. You only have 5 days to accept the study place, from the day you received the answer. 

You will receive an email containing a direct link to your application when the answer has been uploaded in the Application Portal - remember to check your spam filter. Once logged in, you will find your letter under the tab "messages". 

Your applicant ID number is in the upper right-hand corner of the letter. Please make a note of it in case you need to contact us about your application.

If you applied to several programmes, you’ll receive a letter for each programme that was assessed. If you are accepted on one of your higher priorities, your lower priorities were not assessed and you will therefore not receive a letter regarding them.

How to accept (or reject) the study place

After receiving your letter, you have 5 days to accept or reject your place in the Application Portal. Please read your answer letter carefully. You should only accept or reject your offered place after reading it thoroughly. 

You can accept or reject the study place under the tab "see the status of application" (marked with a blue box in the image below).

- Click on the "action" tab (marked with a red box in the image below).
- After clicking "accept" or "reject offer", the status of your application will change.
- You will receive a confirmation in the Application Portal and you will see that the status of your application changes:

Language:	Status: When offered a study place:	Status: When you have accepted:
English:	Assessment completed, Offered admission	Assessment completed, Admitted
	Assessment completed, Offered conditional admission	Assessment completed, Conditionally admitted
Danish:	Afgjort, Optagelse tilbudt	Afgjort, Optaget
	Afgjort, Betinget optagelse tilbudt	Afgjort, Betinget optaget

Did you get a study place at CBS?

What if I change my mind?
If you have accepted the offered place of study, but then change your mind and decide not to study at CBS after all, you must withdraw from the programme. You cannot do this automatically through the Application Portal. If you change your mind before study start, please write an email to Graduate Admission stating that you do not wish to start the programme. If you change your mind after study start, you need to use the withdrawal form available at my.cbs.dk / Choices & Options > Study planning > De-enrolment

What does rejecting a place of study mean?
If you reject the offered place of study, you will not be offered a place at a lower priority. Also, you will not be able to change your mind at a later point. 

Conditional acceptance
If you have received a letter of conditional acceptance, you are not fully admitted at the programme until you have fulfilled all the requirements for admission listed in your letter.

Read your letter of conditional acceptance carefully: make sure you understand what the conditions are and the deadlines for them to be fulfilled. If you have any questions, please go to the contact pages.

Remember, you must confirm or reject the offered place of study.

If you accept your place, it’s important that you upload the necessary documentation proving that you have fulfilled the remaining conditions no later than 31 August (other deadlines may apply to non-EU/EEA citizens who need a student residence permit). If you have received a letter of conditional acceptance to MSc Business Administration and Digital Business (previously E-business) with study start 1 February, you must document that you fulfil the conditions no later than 31 January.

You will receive an email, when it’s possible to upload the necessary documentation.

Things to remember:

• You are provisionally enrolled and your enrolment will be annulled if you do not fulfil each of the conditions by the deadlines stated in your letter.
   
• If you are eligible for SU (Student Grant), being annulled will have consequences for your SU grant.
   
• You need a letter of full acceptance in order to register as an EU resident in Denmark, and in many cases, to obtain financial support for your studies from your home country. It is therefore important to document that you fulfil all your conditions as soon as possible.
   
• If you apply again in the future and have planned to take supplementary courses during the summer, be aware of the rules regarding supplementary courses. See the Graduate Admission pages for further information.

There are three categories of conditions you may receive:

• Courses
• Bachelor degree
• Official grade transcript

See more details about each below.
 

Courses

Qualifying supplementary course(s), not taken as part of your bachelor’s degree and taken outside of CBS, must be officially documented and uploaded on the Application Portal. Note that you must have informed us about these when you applied. Please do this when you’ve passed your final exam(s) for the course(s) and bear in mind that we will be checking whether or not you have passed so you must provide adequate documentation.

ISUP courses (that you informed us about when you applied) must be passed before 31 August. We will check whether or not you have passed the exams for any ISUP courses taken.

If you do not pass the courses listed on your letter of conditional acceptance before the start of your study programme, you will not be fully admitted and your admission will be annulled.
 

Bachelor degree

You must document that you have finished your bachelor’s degree by uploading your final bachelor diploma and grade transcript to the Application Portal. In certain circumstances, a temporary graduation certificate may also be accepted - see below for more information. 
Failure to upload the required documentation before study start (1 September) at the latest will result in annulment of your conditional acceptance to the master’s programme.

Students from CBS or other Danish universities:

You must upload documentation proving that you’ve completed your bachelor’s degree even if you have studied at CBS or another Danish university. If you have graduated during the current application round and therefore you do not have a diploma yet, you may upload the PDF document “Study overview” from the Online Student Service without a stamp and signature from the university. CBS Admissions will verify the authenticity of the document through automatic data transfer and, if necessary, ask you to upload additional documentation.

Diploma and temporary replacement:

Your bachelor’s diploma (or degree certificate) is issued by your university when:

1. you have successfully completed all the activities required in order to be awarded/conferred the respective degree (e.g. passed all your exams, defended your thesis, applied for graduation, paid for the issuing of the official documentation etc.)
   and

2. your university has completed all the necessary administrative steps and granted you the degree (e.g. verified that you have passed all the requirements for the degree, calculated your final GPA, approved your graduation, etc.)

The diploma must include all the following elements:

• name of the institution awarding the bachelor’s degree

• date when the degree was awarded (cannot be a future date)

• name of the person to whom the degree has been issued

• academic title/degree awarded

A bachelor diploma/certificate is printed on the institution’s letterhead and has an ink stamp or raised seal, and official signatures. If you have received your diploma/certificate, you must upload a good quality colour scan of the hard copy document.

You can upload an official document issued by your university as a temporary replacement for the actual bachelor’s degree certificate/diploma, if you have graduated and you have been awarded or conferred a bachelor’s degree. The provisional certificate is issued when the actual degree certificate cannot be given to you immediately after you have completed your studies, for technical or administrative reasons. A provisional certificate must include all of the following elements:

• name of the institution awarding the bachelor’s degree

• date of award/conferral of the degree (cannot be a future date)

• name of the person to whom the certificate has been issued

• academic title/degree awarded

Documents stating one or more of the following are not sufficient on their own as provisional certificates:

• the student has completed all the courses

• the student has passed all the courses required to graduate

• the student has passed a certain number of ECTS-points

• the bachelor examination has been passed

• the student has fulfilled all the requirements for graduation

• the student has applied for the degree certificate

• the student has been recommended for the award of the bachelor’s degree

• the degree will be awarded

• the student will be/is eligible for the degree

The provisional certificate must be issued by a representative of your university's Academic Registrar's Office, Examinations Office or equivalent. Documents issued and signed by other staff members, such as lecturers/professors, are not acceptable.

The provisional certificate must carry the issuing institution’s stamp and signature or an online verification code. “Self-declarations” (for example, the Italian “Auto-dichiarazione”) or documents that claim to be "valid without signature" are not acceptable.

Accepted formats:

• A good quality colour scan of a hard copy document, carrying the institution’s logo/letterhead, ink stamp or raised seal, and ink signature of an authorised official

• Electronic documents with an online verification code that we can verify on the issuing institution’s website or in a national verification portal. Make sure to provide us with a password, if needed.

• Electronic documents are acceptable if signed by your university with a valid digital signature (for example, certified by a provider on the European Union Trusted Lists)

 

Deadline extension

If you've completed your bachelor's studies, but your university has not issued your bachelor’s diploma, and cannot issue a provisional certificate that fulfils the requirements above, fill out our form for requesting an extension to the documentation deadline. The application form should be uploaded to the application portal. You will receive an email when the application portal opens around the end of June.

By filling out and signing the form, you confirm that your last exam/paper/project/defense was in August 2022. 

You can obtain a short deadline extension, until no later than 28 September 2022, to provide the final, official proof of graduation.

Exemption for incomplete CBS bachelor degree

If you study at CBS, it is, in rare circumstances, possible to begin your master studies while finishing your bachelor degree. This is not possible for applicants studying their HD2 at CBS or applicants for other Danish or international universities.

Read about how to apply for an exemption and fill out the exemption request form if you are a student from CBS by clicking here
 

Official grade transcript

If you uploaded a preliminary transcript when you applied, you must document your qualifications by uploading an official grade transcript. The courses and grades listed in the official transcript must match the preliminary transcript that our assessment and decision were based on.

Rejected
If you are rejected, it is because you do not fulfil the requirements for admission. Possible rejection reasons could be that you:

1. Did not fulfil one or several of the entry requirements for the programme
2. Did not upload sufficient documentation
3. Were not selected for the programme or for the concentration that you applied for
4. Applied too late
5. Did not pay the required application fee
6. Did not pay the required tuition fee

Not fulfilling the general entry requirement of having an academic bachelor degree is not in itself a reason for rejection. Please read more about the general entry requirements on the programmes’ individual admission and entry requirements pages.

If you wish to apply for admission to the same programme next year, you are to make sure that you fulfil the entry requirements; however, please note that fulfilment of the entry requirements does not guarantee admission.

If you are rejected and had planned to take supplementary courses during the summer, you should be aware of the rules regarding supplementary courses. Please see "Are you qualified?" for further information.

Missing admission letter
Keep an eye on the website – we will announce when we have finished uploading the letters with the answers for all the applicants.

If by the end of the day you have not received an e-mail informing you that there is an update to your application (remember to check your Junk E-mail folder too!), log in to your application in the Application Portal and check if your letter has been uploaded under the “Messages” tab.

If you cannot find any letter at all, please go to the contact pages. 

Appealing
What can you appeal against?
The conditional letter of acceptance/letter of rejection that you have received is termed a "decision", meaning that we have made a decision concerning your application. Under Danish law you may appeal our decision if you believe that the legal basis for the decision is not correct and/or not in accordance with the rules and regulations governing admission at higher education in Denmark. You cannot appeal our professional judgement, as CBS Admissions Office's decision is final and cannot be tried before any other authority.

Contact us before you appeal
We recommend that you please contact us in either case, as this could clear up any misunderstanding or mistake. To see how to contact us, please go to the contact pages. 
 

CBS Legal treats complaints on behalf of the president. Therefore, the complaint is to be addressed to the president and sent to CBS Legal, Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg or by e-mail to legal@cbs.dk.

Please note that CBS Legal does not make a re-assessment of your application. CBS Legal checks whether your case has been treated in accordance with applicable rules and practice, see the "Admission Order" on Admission and Enrolment to Bachelor's and Master’s Programmes at Universities ("Adgangsbekendtgørelsen"). Consequently, CBS Legal does not re-assess your case as regards the professional assessment made by Student Affairs.