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Finance and Strategic Management

Entry requirements

Entry requirements

You are qualified for (but not guaranteed) admission to the programme if you:

1. Fulfil the language requirement by the application deadline
2. Fulfil the academic requirements below
3. Have a bachelor degree or will have by study start

Please note: Fulfilment of the entry requirements does not guarantee admission.The programme has a limited number of places. If there are more qualified applicants than places available at a programme, there will be a selection process, according to the selection criteria which you can find below.

1. English language requirement

The programme requires English at Danish level A.

The English requirements are very strict, which means that only the qualifications listed on the English level A page are accepted as alternative fulfilment.

The English language requirement must be fulfilled by the application deadline.

2. Academic Requirements

Your educational background will be subject to an overall individual assessment in order to establish whether your bachelor's degree qualifies you for the programme and the following academic requirements are met:

A total of 90 ECTS-points comprising of:

45 ECTS-points in the following core academic areas, with a minimum of 5 ECTS-points within each:

  • Microeconomics
  • Organisation
  • Marketing
  • Quantitative Methods/Statistics
  • Accounting
  • Finance

AND

45 ECTS-points in Business Administration and/or Economics

How to find out if you fulfil the academic requirements

CBS Admissions cannot pre-assess your qualifications ahead of the application round.

We have already assessed a number of bachelor degrees, you will find them all in the list of advance assessments.

To find out if you qualify, you can do the following:

  1. Check the advance assessments: see below if we have already published an advance assessment for your bachelor degree.
  2. Self-assessment: if your bachelor degree is not listed in the advance assessments below, you can make your own self-assessment using the self-assessment form further down.

Advance Assessments

The following advance assessments are only valid for:

  • the 2025 admission round
  • applicants whose bachelor degree exactly matches the university, degree title and enrolment year listed

What is included in the advance assessment?
The advance assessments are based on the obligatory courses as listed in the programme regulations.

If you have obligatory courses that have been credit transferred from elsewhere, we will not use the advance assessment and will instead assess your courses using the available documentation.

If you have electives, we will assess these in addition to the obligatory courses.

Categories
The advance assessments are grouped into 3 different categories:

  • Qualifying bachelor degrees: Your obligatory courses fulfil the academic requirements.
  • Potentially qualifying bachelor degrees: Your obligatory courses do not fully cover the academic requirements. You will therefore need to either choose relevant electives or take supplementary qualifying courses to fulfil the requirements.
    Read more about how to qualify on Are you qualified?
  • Non-qualifying bachelor degrees: Your obligatory courses do not fulfil the academic entry requirements and it is unlikely that elective courses and/or taking supplementary qualifying courses will help you to fulfil the requirements in full.

Your bachelor degree may be listed in different categories for different enrolment years.

Please note: Fulfilment of the entry requirements does not guarantee admission. Read more under ‘Selection Criteria’.


SELF-ASSESSMENT (COURSE MATCH)

If your bachelor degree is not listed above, you can make your own self-assessment using the self-assessment form.

The form can give you an overview of your undergraduate courses from both your bachelor degree and any supplementary courses you may have finished outside of your bachelor degree. It is a tool for you to match your courses with the academic requirements for the programme.

You can include courses you have already passed, courses you are currently taking, and courses you plan to take in the summer.

You can also use the self-assessment form to show how you fulfil the missing entry requirements, if your bachelor degree has an advance assessment showing that it does not fulfil all the academic entry requirements. If this is the case, you only need to fill out the form showing which courses outside of your mandatory courses make up the shortfall (for example, electives, exchange or supplementary courses).

Make sure to download the form and save it on your computer.

File Self-assessment form

Selection Criteria

There are a limited number of places available at this programme. Selection criteria are applied if there are more qualified applicants than places.

Please note that writing a personal statement is not part of the selection criteria for the MSc EBA programmes.

Remember to upload the correct documentation, as this can improve your chances of being accepted – for more details see documentation.

The selection process at the MSc EBA - Finance and Strategic Management is based on an overall assessment of applicants’ educational background at undergraduate level, with a focus on courses and grades within business administration and economics; grades within the academic areas constituting the academic requirements are of particular importance.

Courses and grades within microeconomics, finance and quantitative methods (including statistics and econometrics) may also be taken into consideration.

 

STATISTICS ON ADMISSION

In our statistics on admission you can find information about the number of applicants for the programme in previous admission rounds as well as the number of places.

See our statistics on admission