The answer (group 1)

You will receive an answer to your application no later than the 10th of June 2019. 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 no later than the 15th of March 2019. 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 not receive a confirmation, but you will see that the status of your application changes. It will change from:

"Assessment completed, Offered admission" to "Assessment completed, Admitted" 
OR
"Assessment completed, Offered conditional admission" to "Assessment completed, Conditionally admitted"
 

Did you get a study place at CBS?

What does accepting a place of study mean? 

It means that you have reserved your place and are officially enrolled in the offered programme starting 1 September. If you do not accept the offered place by the deadline, shown above, you will lose your offered place. You will not be offered a place at a lower priority.

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 1 September, please write an email to Graduate Admission stating that you do not wish to start the programme. If you change your mind after 1 September, you need to use the withdrawal form available at my.cbs.dk / My studies > 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 the start of your study programme (other deadlines may apply to non-EU/EEA citizens who need a student residence permit). 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:

1. Language requirements
2. Courses
3. Bachelor degree

See more details about each below.
 

1. Language requirements:
   
   In order to be fully accepted, the language requirements must be fulfilled and documented prior to the start of your study programme (other deadlines may apply to non-EU/EEA citizens who need a student residence permit). You cannot fulfil the language requirements after starting your graduate studies at CBS. Different programmes have different language requirements. They will be either: English A, English B, or Danish A.
   
   NB: These language requirements are different than the English language studies entry requirement for the MA in Intercultural Business Communication programme.
   
    
2. Courses:
   
   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 1 September. Once again, remember 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.
    
3. Bachelor Degree:

• If you are from a university other than CBS, you must upload documentation that you've completed your bachelor degree to the Application Portal. You will receive an email when it is possible to do so. It is not possible to upload documentation after 1 September. See the table below for general and country-specific instructions regarding what documentation is necessary to prove that you have finished your bachelor degree.
   
• If you are from CBS, we check ourselves to see whether you have finished your degree.
   
• If you have a retake exam in August, we will wait for the exam result. However, you must contact us if you believe you will not be receiving the result and graduating before 1 September.
  
  If you cannot finish your bachelor degree by study start, you normally are not allowed to begin studying a master's programme, as this is one of the entry requirements for all CBS master's programmes. An exemption to be enrolled at the first semester (meaning you will be allowed to attend classes and take the exam) while you are finalizing your bachelor degree may be granted under certain circumstances, and only if you are studying a bachelor degree at CBS. See more details below.
  
  If you are not studying a bachelor degree at CBS it is not possible to get an exemption to begin your graduate studies while completing your bachelor degree.
  
  If you are studying a bachelor degree at CBS: In order to be granted an exemption, CBS Admissions must find it feasible for you to pass the missing courses needed to finish your bachelor degree while doing graduate level courses, corresponding to a full semester load. Your request for exemption must be as specific and detailed as possible. If you wish to apply for an exemption, you must upload a request and relevant documentation (including an updated grade transcript) in the Application Portal. Please note that your request for exemption will only be processed after you have been offered a place of study and have confirmed it via the Application Portal.
  
  Please write to Admissions and ask for your application to be opened so you can upload your letter in the Application Portal. Make sure to write “My Application” and your Application ID in the subject line of the email.
  
  If you are granted the exemption but do not pass your bachelor degree within the deadline given to you, your place as a graduate student will be annulled.
  
  If you are eligible for SU (Student Grant), please be aware that being annulled will have consequences for your SU grant, even if you have passed courses at graduate level.  

Country	Documentation and procedures
In general	The "finish your undergraduate degree" condition will only be removed from your letter of acceptance when you have uploaded one of the following: a) Your final bachelor diploma, or b) An official letter from your university, clearly stating that the bachelor degree has been awarded, and the date on which it has been awarded, or c) An official grade transcript, clearly stating that the degree has been awarded and the date on which it has been awarded. An undergraduate grade transcript showing that you have completed 180 ECTS-points is not sufficient.
Denmark	An undergraduate grade transcript showing that you have completed 180 ECTS-points is not sufficient. The "finish your undergraduate degree" condition will only be removed from your letter of acceptance when you have uploaded one of the following: a) Your final bachelor diploma, or b) An official grade transcript clearly stating that "the student has graduated" and indicating the graduation date.
Italy	You must register for and graduate in the spring/summer graduation session in order to ensure that the general entry requirement is fulfilled and documented by study start. If you are planning on graduating after September 1, the general entry requirement will not be fulfilled on time and your admission will be annulled.
Sweden	An undergraduate grade transcript showing that you have completed 180 ECTS-points or that you have applied for a bachelor diploma is not sufficient. The "finish your undergraduate degree" condition will only be removed from your letter of acceptance when you have uploaded one of the following: a) Your final bachelor diploma, or b) An official letter from your university, clearly stating that the bachelor degree has been awarded, and the date on which it has been awarded, or c) An official grade transcript, clearly stating that the degree has been awarded and the date on which it has been awarded.

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 "Becoming Qualified" at Graduate Admission 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 Ministerial Order on Admission and Enrolment on Master’s (Candidatus) Programmes at Universities. Consequently, CBS Legal does not re-assess your case as regards the professional assessment made by Student Affairs.

2016

Total number of applicants as of 1 April 2016: 8838

International applicants: 63.1%
Danish applicants: 36.9%

Female applicants: 49.2%
Male applicants: 50.8%
International educational background: 57.6%
CBS educational background: 26.6%
Other Danish institution of higher education: 15.8%

Offer:
Place offer at 1st priority: 45.3%
Place offer at a lower priority: 7.0%
Rejection: 47.7%

Programme	Number of 1st priorities (deviation from 2015)	Number of places	Status 15 June
MSc in Economics & Business Administration / cand.merc. - overall	4854 (-1.1%)	1460	Quota 1 (applicants with a legal claim): all qualified applicants accepted Quota 2 (applicants with bachelor degree within business administration): qualified applicants rejected; quota 2A: GPA = 6.0 Quota 3 (applicants with a bachelor degree not within business administration): qualified applicants rejected Quota 4 (applicants with a Danish HD part II diploma): qualified applicants rejected Quota 5 (dispensees): qualified applicants rejected
MSc EBA - Applied Economics & Finance	402 (+8.1%)	130	Only applicants qualified for and selected at MSc EBA/cand.merc. overall have been considered for the concentration: qualified and selected applicants have been rejected according to the selection criteria for this concentration
MSc EBA - Accounting, Strategy & Control	314 (+2.6%)	120	Only applicants qualified for and selected at MSc EBA/cand.merc. overall have been considered for the concentration: all qualified and selected applicants have been accepted at this concentration - the concentration is fully booked/ and has no available places
MSc EBA - Finance & Strategic Management	622 (-1.1%)	130	Only applicants qualified for and selected at MSc EBA/cand.merc. overall have been considered for the concentration: qualified and selected applicants have been rejected according to the selection criteria for this concentration
MSc EBA - Finance & Investments	413 (-11.0%)	120	Only applicants qualified for and selected at MSc EBA/cand.merc. overall have been considered for the concentration: qualified and selected applicants have been rejected according to the selection criteria for this concentration
MSc EBA - International Business	516 (+9.8%)	150	Only applicants qualified for and selected at MSc EBA/cand.merc. overall have been considered for the concentration: all qualified and selected applicants have been accepted at this concentration - the concentration is fully booked/ and has no available places
MSc EBA - International Marketing & Management	590 (+2.4%)	150	Only applicants qualified for and selected at MSc EBA/cand.merc. overall have been considered for the concentration: qualified and selected applicants have been rejected according to the selection criteria for this concentration
MSc EBA - Management of Innovation & Business Development	385 (10.3%)	130	Only applicants qualified for and selected at MSc EBA/cand.merc. overall have been considered for the concentration: all qualified and selected applicants have been accepted at this concentration - the concentration is fully booked/ and has no available places
MSc EBA - Brand and Communication Management	485 (+7.1%)	100	Only applicants qualified for and selected at MSc EBA/cand.merc. overall have been considered for the concentration: all qualified and selected applicants have been accepted at this concentration - the concentration is fully booked/ and has no available places
MSc EBA - Strategic Market Creation	176 (-17.8%)	50	Only applicants qualified for and selected at MSc EBA/cand.merc. overall have been considered for the concentration: all qualified and selected applicants have been accepted at this concentration - the concentration is fully booked/ and has no available places
MSc EBA - Strategy, Organisation & Leadership	326 (+2.8%)	80	Only applicants qualified for and selected at MSc EBA/cand.merc. overall have been considered for the concentration: all qualified and selected applicants have been accepted at this concentration - the concentration is fully booked/ and has no available places
MSc EBA - Supply Chain Management	263 (-0.8%)	70	Only applicants qualified for and selected at MSc EBA/cand.merc. overall have been considered for the concentration: all qualified and selected applicants have been accepted at this concentration - the concentration is fully booked/ and has no available places
Cand.merc. - Økonomisk Markedsføring	107 (-40.9%)	70	Only applicants qualified for and selected at MSc EBA/cand.merc. overall have been considered for the concentration: all qualified and selected applicants have been accepted at this concentration - the concentration is fully booked/ and has no available places
Cand.merc. - Finansiering & Regnskab	199 (-13.1%)	130	Only applicants qualified for and selected at MSc EBA/cand.merc. overall have been considered for the concentration: qualified and selected applicants have been rejected according to the selection criteria for this concentration
Cand.merc. - Human Ressource Management	56 (-30.9%)	30	Only applicants qualified for and selected at MSc EBA/cand.merc. overall have been considered for the concentration: all qualified and selected applicants have been accepted at this concentration - the concentration is fully booked/ and has no available places
MSocSc Management of Creative Business Processes	311 (+27.5%)	80	Qualified applicants rejected
MSocSc Organisational Innovation & Entrepreneurship	260 (+4.0%)	80	Qualified applicants rejected
MSocSc Service Management	134 (+0.8%)	70	Qualified applicants rejected
MSocSc Public Management & Social Development	40 (-20.0%)	15	Qualified applicants rejected
Cand.soc. Politisk Kommunikation & Ledelse	115 (+7.5%)	70	Qualified applicants rejected
Cand.soc. Human Ressource Management	162 (-18.6%)	90	Qualified applicants rejected
MSc in International Business & Politics	305 (-3.8%)	90	Qualified applicants rejected
MSc in Advanced Economics & Finance	337 (+31.1%)	50	Qualified applicants rejected
Cand.merc.aud.	351 (+29.5%)	230	All quotas: qualified applicants rejected
MSc in Business Administration & Bioentrepreneurship	73 (-23.2%)	15	Qualified applicants rejected
MSc in Business Administration & Innovation in Health Care	72 (NA)	50	Qualified applicants rejected
MSc in Business Administration & Information Systems/cand.merc.(it.) Concentration: e-Business	201 (-10.7%)	80	Qualified applicants rejected
MSc in Business Administration & Information Systems/cand.merc.(it.) Concentration: IT Management & Business Economics	203 (+12.2%)	80	All qualified applicants accepted - fully booked/no available places
MA in International Business Communication	400 (-5.0)	190	Qualified applicants rejected
MSc in Business, Language & Culture	292 (+7.7%)	120	Qualified applicants rejected
MSc in Business Administration & Philosophy	90 (+45.2%)	40	All qualified applicants accepted - fully booked/no available places
Cand.merc.(jur.)	156 (+17.3%)	130	Qualified applicants rejected
Cand.merc.(kom.)	284 (+5.6%)	220	Qualified applicants rejected
Cand.merc.(mat.)	66 (+13.8%)	55	All qualified applicants accepted - fully booked/no available places
Cand.merc.(psyk.)	108 (+61.2%)	85	All qualified applicants accepted - fully booked/no available places