Legal claim
3-year legal claim to admission at a master’s programme at CBS
You have a legal claim to admission at a master’s programme at CBS if you apply for the programme that is the natural progression (see below for more information) to your CBS bachelor’s degree within 3 years of finishing your bachelor’s degree. The legal claim is extended to 3 years for bachelor students who have finished their Bachelor degree after January 1st, 2019.
The legal claim can only be used once during those 3 years.
If you finish your bachelor in 2022
If you finish your CBS bachelor degree i 2022 you can use your legal claim in 2022, 2023, 2024 or 2025.
If you are applying for admission to your legal claim master programme in 2022 or later, you will use your legal claim if you accept the place you are offered. If you are offered a place, but do not want to use your legal claim after all, you should reject the offer of admission before the specified deadline.
If you have accepted a place in a programme other than your legal claim master programme, you will still retain your legal claim to your natural progression programme for 3 years, or until you graduate from a master programme.
More bachelor graduates on the job market
The 3-year legal claim is intended to encourage more bachelor degree holders to explore the job market while at the same time allowing them to safely retain their legal claim to a master programme for 3 years. The initiative should be seen as an extension of a Danish political pledge (Bachelorløftet - text only available in Danish) which marked the beginning of a process aimed at making the job market more accessible to bachelor graduates.
Programmes with concentrations
If the master’s programme you have a legal right of admission to has more than one concentration, you are NOT guaranteed a study place at a specific concentration. Each concentration has a limited number of places, and maximum capacity can be reached if too many legal claim applicants apply for the same concentration.
The CBS master’s programmes that have several different concentrations are:
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MSc in Economics and Business Administration (EBA) – 14 concentrations (2 in Danish, 12 in English)
If you have legal right of admission to the MSc EBA, you automatically fulfil the language requirement for the specific concentration you are applying for. -
MSc in Business Language and Culture – 2 concentrations
Even though you are guaranteed a place at your legal claim master programme, your application may still go through selection at the concentration level, as we expect to have more legal claim applicants than we have available study places at some of the concentrations. It is therefore advisable for you to apply for as many of the programme's concentrations as possible, and no less than 6 in the case of Cand.merc. / MSc. EBA.
Read more about selection criteria under the specific programme concentration page to see how your qualifications match the level of selection criteria.
In the next section you can read more about how many programmes you can apply for, if you have legal claim to a programme with more than one concentration.
Each applicant is allowed to have three priorities at CBS per application round. If a master’s programme has more than one concentration, then each concentration you select from the Application Portal counts as one application. You will be asked to prioritise your applications if you try to submit more than one.
If you have a legal right of admission to a CBS programme with concentrations, other rules apply to you:
You can apply for all of the concentrations of that respective programme. In addition to those, you can have two more applications.
How to prioritise your applications
If you fill out more than one application, you must prioritise your applications before you can submit your second application. Make sure to prioritise all your applications carefully, assigning high priority to the programmes or concentrations you are most interested in. If the programme you have a right of admission to has more than one concentration, it is a good idea to apply for as many of those concentrations as possible.
We will process your applications in the order assigned by you and we will always offer you a study place at the highest priority possible.
You cannot change your priorities after the application deadline. Once you have received a study place offer, your remaining lower priorities will be closed and therefore you will not be able to switch to a lower priority programme or concentration.
Remember, for programmes with multiple concentrations (for example MSc EBA), you are not guaranteed admission to a specific concentration, even if you have legal right of admission to the programme. Each concentration has a limited number of places, and maximum capacity can be reached if too many legal claim applicants apply for the same concentration.
You can read more about the selection process on the programmes' admission page if you choose to apply to a programme with multiple concentrations.
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| BSc in Business Administration and Digital Management |
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