New student
Practical information for you as a new student
Electives
All new and current students (except bachelor’s students in Aalborg) will receive an email in April/May regarding electives. There is a deadline for feedback approximately two weeks thereafter.
Credit transfer
You are obliged to provide information about completed educational elements from other Danish or foreign higher education that can be assumed to provide credit. You must submit documentation in the form of a diploma and course description for the subjects you have passed no later than 01 May 2025 to [email protected]. Please use this form for your credit application.
Email
You will automatically be assigned an email address
([student number]@edu.musikkons.dk) when you have accepted your study place. You will receive an activation email when your user has been created by Statens IT.
You can log in to your email via the website (link at the bottom of the front page).
Access to intranet
Once you have activated your user, you will be given access to the conservatory’s intranet with your username/password.
You can access the intranet via the link at the bottom of the front page.
Schedule
From Monday in week 29, your schedule will be ready, unless otherwise announced.
The schedule can be accessed via the link at the bottom of the front page (“Schedule and rooms”). This is also where you can book practice rooms.
Student ID card
Issued to all full-time students in connection with the introduction week and is required for, among other things, borrowing instruments, etc. If you have not submitted or uploaded a picture with your application, you must email a digital picture to [email protected] no later than 15 June 2025. Please provide your full name, study number and field of study in the email.
(NB: The student card must be reordered from [email protected] at each new educational stage, e.g. if you start the master’s program after your bachelor’s.)
Keys and chip
Aarhus: keys and chip are issued at the reception during the introduction week.
Aalborg: keys and chip are handed out by Dominic Gale.
Holstebro: info follows
Study start
Study starts in mid/late August.
Keep an eye on the intranet for further information (https://intranet.musikkons.dk/english-for-students/study-start/).
A condition for starting the master’s degree is that all subjects in the bachelor’s degree have been passed by 31 August 2025.
SU – State Education Grant – does not apply to paying students (non-EU/EEA and continuing/further education)
Applications for SU and changes in SU conditions are made by the student themselves in the self-service system minSU. Read more on the SU Agency’s website.
If your education begins after the 20th of a month, you can receive SU from the following month at the earliest.
The SU office at DJM is closed from week 28 to week 31.
New SU reform from 2025 – you may end up missing SU
The bachelor programme is SU-eligible and is standardized for 34 months.
NOTE: If you choose to get SU already from August and all three years, you will be missing SU for the one month at the end of the programme.
Standard study time
A bachelor degree at the Royal Academy of Music is a 3-year programme, and is credited with 180 ECTS. The studies begin in August and is expected to be completed by the end of June three years later.
A master’s degree at the Royal Academy of Music is a 2-year programme, and is credited with 120 ECTS. The studies begin in August and is expected to be completed by the end of June two years later.
A soloist degree at the Royal Academy of Music is a 2-year programme, and is credited with 120 ECTS. The studies begin in August and is expected to be completed by the end of June two years later.