Electronics — SDU · IB Pathways

Where: Sønderborg, Denmark
Degree: BEng
Length: 3.5 years
Taught in: English
Starts: September
Apply by: 15 March 2027
Last intake: All qualified applicants accepted2026 intake · quota 1 needs at least 26 IB points

More facts

Degree: BEng
Length: 3.5 years
Taught in: English
Starts: September
Last intake: All qualified applicants accepted2026 intake · quota 1 needs at least 26 IB points

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
20 March 2027, 12:00 CET*

SDU uniTEST registration closes

Hard deadline
Details
SDU's admission test, used for quota 2 on nearly all its programmes. You register after you have applied. SDU publishes the day and month without a year. The 2027 test itself is on 17-18 April (Odense) or 20-25 April (online).
Source

All dates for this programme (6 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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3 August 2027*

SDU: accept your place

Hard deadline
Details
SDU: "you must confirm your admission via sdu.dk/admission by 3 August to secure your place". Published without a year.
Source

* Last year’s date, not yet confirmed.

Every date in Denmark

What it is

Mathematics is heavy in the first part. The sixth semester is a six-month internship in Denmark or abroad.

Degree and length

Degree: BEng
Length: 3.5 years, 210 ECTS
Field: Engineering

Two ways to take it

Entry requirements differ between them.

Path	Length	Grade-based admission needs	DP Course Results	What is different
BSc in Engineering	3 yrs · 180 ECTS	at least 31 IB pointsPublished as an average of 7.0 on Denmark's 7-point scale	Full Diploma needed	3 years, research-based, and leads straight into the MSc in Engineering. No internship.
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng)	3½ yrs · 210 ECTS	at least 26 IB pointsPublished as an average of 5.0 on Denmark's 7-point scale	Accepted	3½ years with a six-month internship, aimed at industry; a master’s stays open.

What you need

Any IB EnglishDanish requirement: English B
Maths HL (AA or AI)Danish requirement: Mathematics A

And one of these:

Physics (SL or HL) Danish requirement: Physics B
Not open with IB: 1 Danish-only option Geoscience A: The official handbook leaves the IB column blank for Geoscience A. IB Geography HL is not automatically accepted; you would normally need a Danish supplementary course.The options above are the way in. Danish requirement: Geoscience A

Quota 1: at least 26 IB points Danish requirement: an average of 5.0
Under 26? Quota 2
Below this, your way in is quota 2: SDU's entrance test (uniTEST: study skills, not subject knowledge). Apply by 15 March, 12:00, and register for the test by 20 March; places go to the highest test scores.

Check my subjects against it

Check it on sdu.dk

How places are decided

DP Course Results are accepted. Meeting the requirements does not guarantee a place.

Requirements in full, and how places are allocated

Which IB award this asks for

DP Course Results are accepted here — you do not need to have been awarded the full Diploma. The source asks for 6 graded subjects, 3 of them at HL, at least 3 in every subject and 18 points in total.

The detail

SDU publishes two different IB rules on one page, and the difference between them is the whole point. For a bachelor's programme it asks a Course candidate to have "supplemented with at least two individual subjects (minimum one at A-level subject and one at B-level subject)". For a Bachelor of Engineering it asks for nothing beyond the six subjects at grade 3 with three at HL. So a Course candidate reaches this programme with the award as it stands, and no hf-enkeltfag are needed. The national order underneath that: the Danish Agency treats DP Course Results of at least 18 points as equal to a two-year hf without overbygning, and an hf without overbygning is adgangsgivende to a diplomingeniør-uddannelse but not to a universitetsbacheloruddannelse. SDU's own Danish list of qualifying examinations says exactly that — "Eksamener, der kun giver adgang til diplomingeniøruddannelser: Højere forberedelseseksamen (hf) uden overbygning aflagt efter gymnasiereformen 2017" — and DTU publishes the same restriction for its own diplomingeniør intake. Two things this does not do. It does not waive the subject requirements below: Mathematics A, English B and Physics B or Geoscience A still bind, and a Course candidate meets them with IB subjects on the same conversion as anybody else. And the 18-point floor given here is the Agency's rather than SDU's: below 18 points, or with any subject at grade 1 or 2, the Course Results are not a qualifying examination at all and no Danish programme is reachable. Grade 3 in all six subjects already puts the subject total at 18, so the two conditions meet in the same place.

Sources (3)

Entry requirements and admission rules for Electronics.

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SDU institution

Published entry requirements for Electronics.

Read 2026-09-22. Applies to the 2027 autumn intake.
SDU – Admission with an International Baccalaureate (IB) institution

What you need to apply for bachelor of engineering programmes. You can apply to a Bachelor of Engineering programme at SDU if you hold the following IB qualifications: IB Diploma. Diploma Programme (DP) Course Results or IB Certificate provided that you have passed all six subjects with a minimum grade of 3, you have at least three subjects at Higher Level (HL).

SDU splits its IB rule by programme type. A Bachelor of Engineering accepts DP Course Results with all six subjects passed at a minimum grade of 3 and at least three subjects at Higher Level; SDU bachelor programmes ask for the Diploma, or Course Results plus two supplementary subjects.

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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