Flexible Master

The flexible master’s allows you to combine courses across academic disciplines and custom-design a programme that matches your vocational requirements.

You will be able to maintain your connection to the labour market while studying the master’s programme as the master’s is a part-time education. You’ll have six years to complete your flexible master’s programme.

If you are accepted to the Flexible master’s programme, a supervisor will be assigned to you. You will finalize the individual education plan in collaboration with the supervisor to whom you have been assigned.

The education plan must include the following:

• The admission
• The academic profile of the education, including the main field and the level of competence
• Combination of courses and their ECTS-points
• Any courses passed at Open University
• An indication of which university you intend to follow or have followed courses
• A statement of which courses are assessed using the 7-point grading scale and which courses are assessed using external grading
• The order in which the courses are to be completed and a time schedule for the completion  

The price for a flexible master depends on which courses you choose, however, the prices in the table below apply as a minimum.

Prices for EU-citizens:

*Prices for Ph.D. courses: 2,120 DKK/ECTS

Prices for non EU-citizens:

*Prices for Ph.D. courses: 2,740 DKK/ECTS.

* Supervision in the preparation of the individual education plan is not part of the master’s programme. If the applicant does not start on the flexible master programme after counseling process, the payment is not refunded.

Participation fee for individually planned courses/special courses is 2120 kr/ECTS

Requirements

You need to have a technical or science educational background at bachelor level to be admitted to a flexible master’s programme. Furthermore, you must have at least two years’ of relevant work experience.

You can only apply as a flexible master student with a foreign academic background if you have a residence permit for Denmark issued for other reasons. If you are an EU/EEA citizen, you can apply directly since you do not need a visa. If you are not an EU/EEA citizen we need to see a copy of your residence permit before we can enroll you under the flexible master studies.

Application

If you wish to apply for admission to the flexible master’s programme, you should fill in an application form in which you include a draft of you individual education plan. The application must clearly state the focus of the educational discipline. Fill out the application form, which you can download via the box on the right of the page. Furthermore, you must include the following document:

• Your CV 
• Confirmed copy of original diploma for prior education
• Transcript of records
• Proof of minimum two years of relevant work experience
• A copy of your residence permit (only if you are not an EU/EEA citizen)

Please send all the documents to learnforlife@dtu.dk.

Registration deadline:
For the spring semester: 1 November
For the autumn semester: 1 May

When the aforementioned documents have been received at DTU, a preliminary screening of whether you meet the admission requirements will be carried out. You will then be assigned a professional supervisor who will help you in the further process of preparing your individual education plan.

Once the education plan has been approved—and signed—by the supervisor and the study board at the department you are ready for enrolment in a flexible master’s programme.

Please be advised that it can take as much as three months from the receipt of your application at DTU before an education plan is completed.

The application deadline for the flexible master’s program is 1 May for the autumn semester and 1 November for the spring semester.

As a student in a flexible master’s programme you can register for master level courses offered under Open University.

Find courses in the course base.

You will receive an invoice at the beginning of the semester. In order for you to be registered for the exam, the participation fee must be registered.

If you regret having registered for a course, be sure to let us know before the beginning of the semester, as registration for tuition is binding and the participant fee is therefore non-refundable.

Enrolment to the courses is done via DTU Learn, DTU’s teaching platform. Once admitted to the flexible master, you will receive additional information.

Flexible Master’s programme

A flexible master has a vocational dimension that the Master of Science programme lacks. In order to be enrolled in a flexible master’s programme at all, you must have at least two years of relevant work experience in addition to having a Bachelor degree. 

Master of Science

A Master of Science programme is an education on a higher academic level. Students do not have to have any relevant work experience, but they embark to two years of full-time studies, follow advanced courses, and obtain a total of 120 ECTS-points and the academic title of ‘Master of Science’ (MSc).