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Aalborg University

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Aalborg University

Aalborg University has about 17,700 students across three campuses — Aalborg, Esbjerg and Copenhagen — and is built entirely around problem-based learning, the 'Aalborg model'.

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In English
4 programmes
City
Aalborg
Apply via
Optagelse.dk
Next deadline
15 Mar 2027

Deadlines

  1. 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.

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  2. 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.

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All dates for this school (5 more)

  1. 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.

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  2. 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.

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  3. 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.

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  4. 6 July 2027*

    IB results released
    Details

    After the Danish documentation deadline, which is why the results service exists.

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  5. 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.

    Source

* Last year’s date, not yet confirmed.

Every date in Denmark

What you could study here

  • Open entry

Energy Engineering

BSc · 3 yrs · Esbjerg

Needs Physics and Chemistry +2 more

Engineering

What it asks of IB students

Last year's cut-offs: 21–32 IB points, by degree.

Where it says so

Its IB recognition statement

Worth knowing

AAU lists exactly five bachelor's degrees for international students.

All 7 notes
  • AAU lists exactly five bachelor's degrees for international students. Four are taught in English and are listed here. The fifth, Language and International Studies, English (Aalborg), is listed on the same page but its own programme page states the language of instruction is Danish and requires Danish A, so it is not included.
  • Three of the four English-taught degrees are at Campus Esbjerg on the west coast of Jutland, not in Aalborg. Esbjerg is a small port city and AAU's campus there is correspondingly small.
  • Problem-based learning is not a slogan at AAU: roughly half of each semester is a group project, assessed by an oral group examination. If you dislike sustained group work, this is worth knowing before you apply.
  • Applied Industrial Electronics admitted all qualified applicants in 2026, but AAU states that "From 2027, the programme is restricted in admission", which is the year an IB May 2027 cohort would enter.
  • The quota split for Energy Engineering is not confirmed here; the programme page describes quota 1 and quota 2 selection without figures.
  • Note AAU's own reminder that A, B and C are course levels, not grades; the minimum grade of 4.0 attached to Mathematics A is a grade on the Danish 7-point scale.
  • Application area number for Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology on optagelse.dk is 26525.

Sources
  1. AAU – Bachelor's programmes (international) — checked 2026-09-22
  2. AAU – Applied Industrial Electronics — checked 2026-09-22
  3. AAU – Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology — checked 2026-09-22
  4. AAU – Economics and Business Administration — checked 2026-09-22
  5. AAU – Energy Engineering — checked 2026-09-22
  6. Aalborg University publishes a dedicated page on how it treats the International Baccalaureate. — checked 2026-09-22
  7. Aalborg University states who pays tuition and who does not. — checked 2026-09-22
  8. AAU – About AAU — checked 2026-09-22