The ones that come up every year

Yes — almost everywhere expects it. Danish applications close on 15 March 2027 and IB results are not released until 6 July. The mechanism is the IB's own results service: your coordinator registers you and your results are sent directly to up to six institutions. Ask for it in spring, and get a receipt. Some countries instead want predicted grades; a few, like NMBU in Norway, will not make conditional offers at all and simply will not consider you.

Not if you are awarded the full Diploma. The Danish Agency's handbook is explicit that a Diploma may contain a grade of 2, as long as the IB's own conditions for awarding it were met. Several Danish university pages say every subject must be 3 or above — that rule applies to DP Course Results, not to a full Diploma. For Course Results, a single 1 or 2 does make the qualification non-qualifying in Denmark.

In Denmark, no. The official table treats Analysis and Approaches and Applications and Interpretation identically: HL of either is Mathematics A, SL of either is Mathematics B. Elsewhere it very much does. Norway counts Maths AA SL as R1+R2 but Maths AI SL only as S1+S2. LUT in Finland excludes AI SL from its engineering list. Germany's rules turn on whether one of your HL subjects is a language, mathematics or a natural science. Check the specific country.

There is no fixed answer, and that is the official position rather than an evasion. The Danish Agency says institutions must decide case by case, because Global Politics goes far deeper into international politics than Danish Social Studies A but omits the sociology and economics that the Danish subject includes. Copenhagen accepts Global Politics HL as Social Studies B; Aarhus accepts it only in combination with Economics. If a programme matters to you, write to its admissions office before 15 March and ask for a written assessment.

Yes, but the choice is much narrower than most people expect. The University of Copenhagen teaches essentially all of its bachelor's degrees in Danish. Most of the English-taught provision is at Copenhagen Business School, Southern Denmark, the IT University, Roskilde, Aalborg and the university colleges. If you took Danish A1 or Danish A Literature at either level, the Danish-taught system is open to you too.

Often, yes — but which grant depends on your passport. Danish SU can pay for a complete degree abroad if you can claim it (as a Danish citizen, or as an EU/EEA citizen with equal status under EU rules, for example through a parent who works in Denmark) and you meet the ties-to-Denmark requirement, such as two years living in Denmark in the last ten. The programme must be recognised in that country and usable in Denmark without extra courses. In another Nordic country it is paid as if you studied in Denmark — for anyone starting from July 2025, for the programme's prescribed length. Elsewhere it is capped at four years. Either way it uses SU klip, within an overall frame of 70 for higher education abroad. Apply through minSU's Fast Track, no later than the first month you want the grant for. If you cannot claim SU, look first at your own country's student finance: several EU/EEA systems fund a full degree in another country.

In Denmark, no. Your average is your average, and the old bonus for applying soon after finishing no longer exists. A year of relevant work can actively help in quota 2, where up to twelve documented months counts. Elsewhere it varies — and note that in Norway, age points are being abolished from 2028, which changes the calculation for anyone applying after this cohort.

Usually not. An IB taught in English satisfies the English requirement in most European systems, and several state it outright — Denmark, Norway, Finland's LUT, Iceland, Estonia's Tallinn University. Where a test is demanded, the IB English grade often substitutes: Corvinus accepts IB English SL 5 or HL 4, CEU accepts IB English 5. Check the individual institution rather than assuming either way.

Tuition is genuinely free for EU/EEA citizens across the Nordics, Germany, Austria, Czechia and Poland — with important asterisks. Norway and Iceland charge a semester or registration fee. Germany charges a semester contribution. Czechia is free only for programmes taught in Czech; in Poland, Polish-taught study is free for EU citizens and some English-taught programmes are too. Living costs are the real number: Norway budgets NOK 15,488 a month (about €1,435), Denmark DKK 8,450–13,700 (about €1,130–1,830), at the ECB rate of 24 September 2026. Free tuition and an expensive city can still come to more than modest tuition somewhere cheap.

You are far from alone, and English-taught medicine in Central Europe is a well-trodden route — Hungary, Czechia, Poland, Latvia and Lithuania all recruit heavily from Scandinavia. It is expensive, often €12,000–19,000 a year, and requires an entrance exam, though several waive it for strong IB science grades. The thing to check before anything else is whether the degree will let you practise in the country where you want to work — Denmark included.

It varies a lot and it shapes your strategy. Denmark: eight, ranked, one offer. Norway: ten ranked through Samordna opptak. Finland: six. The UK: five through UCAS. The Netherlands: four through Studielink, of which at most two numerus fixus. Ireland: ten at level 8 and ten at level 6/7. Where you rank choices, rank by where you would rather be — a long shot at number one usually costs you nothing.

Believe the university, then tell us. Every page here carries the date its sources were last read and links to its sources, precisely so you can see how old a claim is. Admissions rules change annually and some of the ones here are scheduled to change before autumn 2027.