International Business — CBS

Where: Frederiksberg, Denmark
Degree: BSc
Length: 3 years
Taught in: English
Starts: September
Apply by: 15 March 2027
Last cut-off: 42 IB pointsDanish 11.1 · 2026 intake

More facts

Degree: BSc
Length: 3 years
Taught in: English
Starts: September

Deadlines

15 March 2027, 12:00 CET*

Applications close
Sign the application (signature page if you have no MitID)

Hard deadline
Details
Twelve noon, not midnight. Applies to every applicant with an international or IB qualification, whether the diploma was earned in Denmark or abroad, and whether you are aiming at quota 1 or quota 2.
Source
2 August 2027*

Accept your place

Hard deadline
Details
Set by each institution, a few days after offers: check the date in your offer. In 2026: Copenhagen 2 August, Southern Denmark 3 August, Aalborg 5 August. Dated here at the earliest known; a school that publishes its own date shows that instead.
Source

All dates for this programme (5 more)

1 February 2027*

Optagelse.dk opens for the 2027 intake

Details
The portal typically opens in early February. Confirm the exact date when the Agency publishes it.
Source
1 March 2027*

Have your IB coordinator register you for IB results

Your own plan
Details
Not an official deadline, but results must be authorised to travel before the documentation deadline. Get a receipt. Institution codes: Copenhagen 002600, Aarhus 000150, Aalborg 000148, Southern Denmark 000157.
Source
5 July 2027, 12:00 CET*

Last day to reorder priorities; documentation at some institutions

Details
Priorities can be reordered until 12:00. Documentation deadlines are set by each institution: Aarhus and Aalborg accept documents until 5 July, Copenhagen wants them with the application on 15 March, and some academies set 1 April. Check each one you list.
Source
6 July 2027*

IB results released

Details
After the Danish documentation deadline, which is why the results service exists.
Source
28 July 2027*

Offers and quota 1 cut-offs published

Details
Every programme's cut-off average is published the same day. Vacant places appear in the same week.
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* Last year’s date, not yet confirmed.

Every date in Denmark

What it is

About half the compulsory courses use mathematics as a working tool, at roughly the level of the entry requirement. Its 2026 quota 1 cut-off, 11.1, was the highest of CBS's six English-taught bachelors on this site, and a third of the students are non-Danish.

Degree and length

Degree: BSc
Length: 3 years, 180 ECTS
Field: Business

What you need

English B HL or English A — or English B SL 5+ with IELTS 7.0 — or Cambridge C1 185+ An English test on top of English B at 5 or better in IB (Danish 6.0)Cambridge C1 Advanced, passed at grade C with an overall score of 185 or more, or C2 Proficiency at grade C with 200 or more. CBS: passing one of these Cambridge exams with the required score fulfils both English B at 6.0 and the English A language requirement. CBS must have the result by 5 July, 12:00 Danish requirement: English A · English B, minimum 6
Any IB MathsDanish requirement: Mathematics B

And one of these:

History (SL or HL) Danish requirement: History B or Contemporary History B
Economics or Business Management (SL or HL) Danish requirement: International Economics B
Global Politics (SL or HL), or Geography HL or Anthropology HLThis is Copenhagen Business School's own rule; the national table publishes no IB equivalent. Danish requirement: Social Studies B
Not open with IB: 1 Danish-only option History of Ideas B: The handbook publishes no equivalent for this subject.The options above are the way in. Danish requirement: History of Ideas B

Check my subjects against it

Check it on cbs.dk

How places are decided

Places are ranked; last year's cut-off was 42 IB points. Asks for the full IB Diploma.

Requirements in full, and how places are allocated

Which IB award this asks for

This asks for the full IB Diploma. DP Course Results — what the IB awards for individual Diploma Programme subjects where the Diploma itself is not — do not satisfy it on their own.

Course Results of 18+ points (grade 3 in all six, three at HL) count once you raise two subjects a level, one of them to A level. Or retake for the Diploma.

How that route works

It does not close this one to you. The Danish Agency treats DP Course Results of at least 18 points, with at least grade 3 in all six subjects and at least three of them at HL, as equivalent to a qualifying examination for a Danish university bachelor once you have added two successive raises in the level of upper-secondary subjects, at least one of them to A level, taken as hf-enkeltfag or as a self-study candidate. If you already hold an A-level subject other than Danish, two raises to B level are enough. Retaking to be awarded the full IB Diploma is the other published route.

The rule is national rather than this university's: the Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science sets which examinations are adgangsgivende, and every Danish institution applies the same one. Two things about it are easy to get wrong. GSK (gymnasial supplering) cannot be used for this — GSK raises a subject level for someone who already holds a qualifying examination, so it meets a specific subject requirement but never raises the level of the examination itself. And the average used in quota 1 is the one from the first qualifying examination, so a Course Results holder who supplements or retakes is still converted on the original Course Results result.

Sources (2)

Entry requirements and admission rules for International Business.

Open this to see the exact page each rule came from, when it was read, and whether a person has checked it.

CBS – BSc in International Business institution

Read 2026-09-22. Applies to the 2027 autumn intake.
Uddannelses- og Forskningsstyrelsen (Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science) national agency

IB-elever uden IB Diploma, men med mindst 18 point (Diploma Programme (DP) Course Results), har adgang til videregående uddannelser i Danmark på lige vilkår med ansøgere med den 2-årige hf-eksamen uden overbygning. Det kræver, at alle 6 IB-fag (3 HL-fag og 3 SL- eller 4 HL-fag og 2 SL-fag) er bestået med mindst karakteren 3. Det betyder, at de har adgang til at søge optagelse på erhvervsakademi- og professionsbacheloruddannelser gennem kvote 1 og 2. Ansøgere med et Diploma Programme (DP) Course Results på mindst 18 point og mindst karakteren 3 i alle fag kan derudover få adgang til en universitetsbacheloruddannelse gennem kvote 1 og 2 ved enten at supplere med enkeltfag efter samme regler som hf’erne eller tage deres IB-eksamen om for at få et IB Diploma – Retake.

DP Course Results (formerly the IB Certificate) of at least 18 points, with at least grade 3 in all six subjects and at least three subjects at HL, are a qualifying examination in Denmark on the same terms as a two-year hf without overbygning: they give access to erhvervsakademi- and professionsbachelor programmes through quota 1 and quota 2, and to a university bachelor only after two successive raises of upper-secondary subject level, at least one to A level, taken as hf-enkeltfag. Course Results under 18 points, or containing any subject at grade 1 or 2, are not a qualifying examination at all. A full IB Diploma of 24 points or more gives access to every higher education programme in Denmark.

Read 2026-09-23. Applies to the 2027 autumn intake.

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