If special circumstances have negatively affected your upper secondary school grades you can apply for dispensation. In your application for admission, you must submit documentation showing that your grades were negatively affected by special circumstances no later than 15 March at noon. 

To obtain dispensation due to special circumstances, you must demonstrate special circumstances with supporting evidence.

Examples of such circumstances include:

• Critical or chronic illness
• Physical or mental disability
• Accident resulting in injury or permanent damage
• Illness or death in your immediate family
• Uncompensated dyslexia or acalculia.

In the application that you upload to optagelse.dk, you must explain:

• The reason you are applying for a dispensation
• What special circumstances have arisen during upper secondary school
• Whether the circumstances applied to an isolated incident or a short or long period of time
• What impact the special circumstances have had on your grades and overall GPA on your qualifying examination.

At optagelse.dk, you must upload documentation for the circumstances you have described in the application. The documentation must be translated into English or Danish. Examples of relevant documentation include:

• Medical certificate or medical record relating to injury, accident, short-term or long-term illness
• Medical certificate or other relevant professional documentation for accidents, deaths or particularly serious illnesses of close relatives
• Specialist opinion in connection with, for instance, tests for dyslexia, acalculia or disabilities
• Statement from psychologist/psychiatrist or transcript of medical record
• Statement from student counsellor, subject teacher or principal of the school
• Police report with relevant information on the persons involved
• Grade sheets from the last three years of upper secondary school.

Please be aware: 

• Aalborg University rarely grants dispensation and that dispensation is not a guarantee of you being enrolled.
• That the dispensation is solely for entry restricted programmes and only if you hold a qualifying upper secondary school exam that is considered equivalent to a Danish upper secondary school exam, and your grade point average (GPA) can be converted into the Danish grading scale.
• If you take a supplementary course in a required admission subject, your grade in that subject will not be administratively increased, even if you receive a lower grade after completing the supplementary course. 

If you do not hold a qualifying upper secondary school exam it may be possible for you to apply for admission with special permission. You must submit documentation (diplomas) showing that you possess general as well as specific academic qualifications equivalent to those of an applicant holding a qualifying exam. The documentation must be in original language and English.

If you are granted special permission, your application for admission will be treated on an equal footing with the other applications. Hence, you are not guaranteed admission. Be aware that you must still meet the specific entry requirements for the programme. 

You must apply for admission before 15 March, noon.

If you do not fulfill a specific entry requirement, but have academic qualifications comparable to the specific entry requirement you can apply for a dispensation. 

To your application at www.optagelse.dk you must upload documentation for the academic qualifications, i.e. Diplomas, test results or certificates (including course descriptions and information about examination). The documentation must be in original language and in English.

You must apply for dispensation before 15 March, noon.

If Aalborg University grants you dispensation, it will only be valid for your application to Aalborg University and only for the programmes you have applied for. Be aware that a dispensation is not a guarantee of enrolment.

Usually, it is not possible to submit an application for admission or documentation to your application after the given deadlines.

We only grant dispensation in the case of special circumstances such as unexpected and urgent serious illness around the time of the deadline. The circumstances must be documented with a doctor’s note or similar. The documentation must be in English.

We do not consider the following as special circumstances: 

• Delays
• Oversight of deadline
• Lacking knowledge of the deadlines
• IT- or logon problems

If you have completed a master’s degree, you are not eligible to start a second degree at an equivalent or lower level unless there are available study places. This limitation applies to all applicants holding a master’s degree regardless of whether it is a Danish or an international master’s degree.

Aalborg University can make an exemption under special circumstances. Special circumstances could be if you are no longer able to use your master’s degree. Unemployment or a change in interests is not considered special circumstances and will not grant you a dispensation.

If you want to apply for an exemption due to special circumstances, you must upload your exemption application to your application at www.optagelse.dk no later than 15 March at noon.

If Aalborg University grants you an exemption, your application for admission will be assessed on par with other applications for that particular programme. A dispensation is not a guarantee of enrolment.