Only use the PDF form if you cannot use one of our digital application forms
Please follow the instructions, which you will find below. They explain which documents to enclose and how to submit your application.
You should not disclose any sensitive or confidential personal data in your application.
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Please remember to sign the form when you have completed it.
Send to:
Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science
Assessment and Recognition of Qualifications
Haraldsgade 53
DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø
If you send in original education documents, you should send them by registered post. We always return original education documents and original translations by registered post. You can also choose to collect the documents at our reception. In that case, you must call us to make an appointment.
Certified copies are normally returned by ordinary post.
If you have a Danish CPR number and MitID you can send your application by Digital Post, unless you are to submit original documents (see "Documents from certain countries" below).
The assessment will be delayed if we have to ask for further information or documentation. It is therefore important that you carefully follow the documentation requirements below.
Diploma/certificate in the original language for each qualification that you want to have assessed. If you have more than one higher education qualification (e.g. a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree), please enclose all of the documents.
Transcript of records in the original language for each qualification that you want to have assessed.
Translation of diploma/certificate for each qualification that you want to have assessed, unless it is in Norwegian, Swedish, English, German, French, or Spanish. If you attach a Diploma Supplement issued in one of the languages mentioned, translation is not necessary (see point 6).
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Translation of transcript for each qualification that you want to have assessed, unless it is in Norwegian, Swedish, English, German, French, or Spanish. If you attach a Diploma Supplement issued in one of the languages mentioned, translation is not necessary (see point 6).
> Read about translation requirements
If you want assessment of a degree, please enclose the entrance qualification, e.g. high school certificate.
If you have a Diploma Supplement, please enclose it. The Diploma Supplement is issued by the higher education institutions in the EU/EEA countries.
If the name on any of the documents is different from the name you are currently using: name change documentation, e.g. marriage certificate.
If your qualifications have been assessed before: previous assessment(s) or recognition decision(s).
The Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science may ask you for further documentation of your qualifications, including original documents.
By submitting the application you certify that the information given in the application is correct and that the enclosures are authentic documents relating to you. The Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science conducts routine verification of foreign documents. Cases of fraud (including the use of documents belonging to another person) will be reported to the police.
If you wish to have an assessment of a qualification from one of the following countries, please document it in the manner mentioned.
Send or hand in the original documents.
In addition to the documents mentioned under "Required documents" above, we ask for this:
If your diploma can be found online in a database belonging to the educational institution or education authority: Please enter the web address and the code or other access information into the application form under "Additional information".
If official online verification is not possible: Please ask your college or university to send a transcript of your academic record directly to the Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science. Use this form: International Transcript Request and Release Form.
Please ask your college or university to send a transcript of your academic record directly to the Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science. Use this form: International Transcript Request and Release Form.
Send or hand in the original documents.
Upload these documents in your digital application: educational documents and "verification report" issued by the Center for Student Services and Development, Ministry of Education, P.R. China, for your degrees.
Send or hand in the original documents.
Send or hand in the original documents.
Please ask your college or university to send a transcript of your academic record directly to the Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science. Use this form: International Transcript Request and Release Form.
Copy of transcript must be issued by the university. We do not accept self-certifications (dichiarazione sostitutiva di certificazione).
Please ask your college or university to send a transcript of your academic record directly to the Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science. Use this form: International Transcript Request and Release Form.
Send or hand in the original documents.
In addition to the documents mentioned under "Required documents" above:
Go to the Diploma Registry (Vitnemålsportalen) and share your results (diplomas, transcripts for all your qualifications and Diploma Supplement) to your own email. Copy the link and code. Insert the information into the application form under "Additional information".
If you do not have access to the Diploma Registry, please explain why in the application form, and upload copies of your educational documents with your application.
NB: If you have completed your Technikum qualification in 3 years following a basic vocational qualification ”Zasadnicza Szkola Zawodowa”, send documentation for both qualifications.
In addition to the documents mentioned under "Required documents" above, we ask for:
Instructions:
Please note:
Send or hand in the original documents.
Send or hand in the original documents.
In addition to the documents mentioned under "Required documents" above:
If your educational institution is part of the Ladok Consortium:
or
In addition to the documents mentioned under "Required documents" above, we ask for:
If you want another person to communicate with the Agency about your application, you must give that person power of attorney to do so. The power of attorney must be dated and signed, containing the name, address, postal code and town, email address, phone number and civil registry number (if none: date of birth) of the person you have authorised to act on your behalf.
You will receive confirmation of your application within 14 days. We will contact you in case any information or documents are missing.
The assessment normally takes no more than two months from submitting all of the required documents. If you have a Danish CPR number and permanent residence in Denmark, you will receive the assessment as a pdf sent by Digital Post (unless you are exempt from Digital Post, in which case you get it by letter post).
Please do not give any sensitive personal information in your application.
Tick the main purpose for which you want to use the assessment.
If the main purpose is ”Job”, please state the field of work in which you are looking for employment or are already employed. NB: For some professions you need authorisation by another authority.
If the main purpose is “Further education”, please mention which type of education you want to enter, e.g. “bachelor's degree programme" or “vocational education and training”. N.B.: The assessment does not include any conversion of grades/marks.
Former assessment: Tick ”Yes” if you have received any written assessment or decision on recognition of your qualification before, from the Agency or from other bodies in Denmark or abroad.
Language of the assessment: You can only get the assessment in one language. An assessment in Danish is easier to use in the Danish labour market and in the Danish education system.
Primary and lower secondary education, i.e. education that you received from age 5 to 15, approximately. This information makes it easier for us to assess your subsequent qualifications.
Fill in this section if you have completed general education which can be entered after completing lower secondary education, i.e. after compulsory school, and which gives access to higher education.
Fill in this section if you have completed education or training preparing for a specific occupation and which can usually be entered after completing lower secondary school, i.e. after compulsory education.
If you have completed more than one vocational education and training programme, please write the additional information on a copy of this page of the form.
Fill in this section if you have completed university education or other studies that normally require at least an upper secondary school leaving certificate.
If you have completed more than three higher education programmes, please write the additional information on a copy of this part of the form.
Please list the most important periods of employment where you have used your qualification.
We do not assess your work experience, but the information you give about work experience may facilitate the assessment of your qualification.
Information about unfinished education, if any, or other circumstances relevant to the assessment of your qualification.
Do not give any sensitive personal information.
Normally, we assess the level obtained with the last non-Danish qualification. If you need a separate assessment of an earlier qualification, please mention it here.
NB: We do not assess grades and subject levels.
We ask you to accept that we may contact your educational institution or a relevant authority in the country where you obtained your qualification, in case we want to have confirmation of information about the qualification.
If your answer is no, you must state the reasons why.
Only fill in this section if the application is being submitted by a person representing an authority, unemployment fund, institution, company or organisation, e.g. a job centre adviser. If you are sending the ap- plication yourself as a qualification holder, please leave the section blank.
Please remember to answer the question about whether to have a copy of the assessment sent to the contact person, if any.
As a qualification holder you are asked to accept that the Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science carries out an assessment of your qualifications, and you do this by signing the application form. Normally your consent is required even if somebody else is submitting the application.
By signing the form you also certify that the information given in the application is correct and that the enclosures are authentic documents relating to you.
