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Frederiksberg · Denmark · Business school

Copenhagen Business School

CBS is a single-subject university: everything it teaches is business, economics or something deliberately bolted onto business — sociology, politics, philosophy, shipping.

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In English
6 programmes
City
Frederiksberg
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.

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* Last year’s date, not yet confirmed.

Every date in Denmark

What you could study here

  • Last year: 42 IB points

International Business

BSc · 3 yrs · Frederiksberg

Needs Any Maths · one of History, Economics or 4 others +1 more

Business
  • Last year: 39 IB points

International Shipping and Trade

BSc · 3 yrs · Frederiksberg

Needs Any Maths · one of History, Economics or 4 others +1 more

Business

What it asks of IB students

Last year's cut-offs: 37–42 IB points, by degree.

Where it says so

Its IB recognition statement

Worth knowing

A, B and C are Danish subject levels, not grades.

All 9 notes
  • A, B and C are Danish subject levels, not grades. The minimum grade of 6.0 attached to English B (and to Mathematics B on the Sociology programme) is a grade on the Danish 7-point scale, and corresponds to an IB subject grade of 5 under CBS's own conversion.
  • CBS does not round up: "If you have passed a subject with an average grade of 5.5 on the Danish scale and the grade requirement is 6.0, you do not meet the requirement. We do not round grades up."
  • A subject passed at A level automatically satisfies a 6.0 grade requirement at B level in that subject. So IB Mathematics HL clears the Mathematics B minimum 6.0 requirement on the Sociology programme regardless of the grade.
  • Every English-taught programme has two English hurdles: the specific entry requirement of English B with a minimum grade of 6.0, and the separate language requirement of English A. Most IB English subjects clear both, but English B at Standard Level clears only the first.
  • All six English-taught programmes count a motivational essay in the quota 2 assessment — but only for applicants who finished school at least three months before the quota 2 deadline. Read the quota notes below before planning around it.
  • CBS's English-taught portfolio has shrunk. BSc in International Business in Asia (Chinese) and BSc in International Business in Asia (Japanese) appear in CBS's own admission figures for 2023 and 2024 and have gone by 2026. CBS's policy page states that "As a general rule, CBS establishes all programmes it offers but may choose to depart from this principle in cases where dimensioning requirements and financial considerations carry greater weight." Programme closure, rather than a cut to the size of each intake, is how dimensioning has shown up here so far: study places on the surviving English-taught degrees were flat or slightly up between 2022 and 2026.
  • Applications keep rising. Between 2025 and 2026 total applications rose 23 per cent for International Business, 27 per cent for International Business and Politics and 32 per cent for International Shipping and Trade, so the 2026 cut-offs should be read as a floor rather than a forecast.
  • CBS teaches on one campus around Solbjerg Plads in Frederiksberg. There is no second city to consider.
  • The TOEFL institutional code for CBS is 7035 if you need a language test instead of a qualifying English subject.

Sources
  1. CBS – Bachelor programmes — checked 2026-09-22
  2. CBS – Application and admission (bachelor) — checked 2026-09-22
  3. CBS – BSc in Business Administration and Digital Management — checked 2026-09-22
  4. CBS – BSc in Business Administration and Service Management — checked 2026-09-22
  5. CBS – BSc in Business Administration and Sociology — checked 2026-09-22
  6. CBS – BSc in International Business — checked 2026-09-22
  7. CBS – BSc in International Business and Politics — checked 2026-09-22
  8. CBS – BSc in International Shipping and Trade — checked 2026-09-22
  9. CBS – Reports and key figures — checked 2026-09-22