KEA - Copenhagen School of Design and Technology

This programme no longer admits new full degree students. The last intake was January 2022.

Description

Learn how to develop and manage construction projects of all sizes. The Bachelor in Architectural Technology and Construction Management programme is versatile and opens the door to exciting jobs in the construction industry. 

Bachelor in Architectural Technology and Construction Management are the professionals, who are able to participate in and coordinate the building process at all levels from concept to completion in the broadest sense. This includes new buildings as well as the renovation. You will coordinate and manage the many technical and administrative phases of the construction process. The study programme will teach you how to plan, design and coordinate construction projects, and you will combine practical experience with theoretical knowledge on a daily basis.

During your studies, you are able to specialise in:

• design consultancy
• facilities management
• construction management

Being a very important driver with a strong impact on the future development and progression of the building industry,  BIM (Building Information Modeling) is an integrated part of the programme.

Career Opportunities  

The BA in Architectural Technology and Construction Management equips you for a wide range of exciting jobs, primarily in the construction sector – for example in engineering, construction and architecture companies, but also in organisations affiliated with the sector – such as federal and local government departments, housing and management companies, insurance companies, banks and credit institutions and technological institutes.

Admission 

You meet the entry requirements if you have an upper secondary school leaving certificate equivalent to the Danish, such as ‘gymnasium', HF, HHX and HTX.

The Mathematics C-level is represented by 125 hours during the last three years of upper-secondary school (equivalent to the Danish C-level of a Danish upper-secondary examination).

A recognised English test must be submitted together with the application. 
Read more about our language requirements.

For the summer intake, you have to apply online on www.optagelse.dk.
For the winter intake, you have to apply online on www.kea.dk. 

Tuition

Non-EU/EEA/CH citizens must pay a tuition fee of € 6,100 per semester

This programme no longer admits new full degree students. The last intake was August 2021.

Description

Looking for an entrepreneurial career in business economics and IT? 

Immerse yourself in a unique combination of business economics and information technology that will qualify you to analyse, design and execute projects in the areas of IT, processes and business development. Whether you are dreaming of a career in a multinational company or of starting your own business, a BA in Business Economics and Information Technology gives you the tools and methods you need for innovative thinking and turning ideas into reality.

The programme runs for 3½ years and covers a broad range of subjects during the seven semesters. These include international economics, business economics, programming, systems development, business strategy, communication and international commercial law, and you can also choose elective subjects. The study programme concludes with a bachelor project. 

Career Opportunities  

As a BA in Economics & Information Technology you will be able to work strategically with optimization of business processes through the use of information technology.

This opens up a number of career opportunities, such as:

• IT Management Consultant
• IT Project Manager
• Systems Developer
• Systems Analyst
• Strategic Business Process Manager
• Project Portfolio Manager

After completing the Bachelor’s programme, you can continue your studies at both Danish and international universities to obtain a Master’s degree.

Admission

An education equivalent to a Danish upper secondary education is required. 

Mathematics B-level is required in order to apply for the BA in Business Economics and IT. The Mathematics B-level is represented by 250 hours during the last three years of upper-secondary school (equivalent to the Danish B-level of a Danish upper-secondary examination).

A recognised English test must be submitted together with the application. 
Read more about our language requirements.

You have to apply online on www.optagelse.dk.

Tuition

Non-EU/EEA/CH citizens must pay a tuition fee of € 4,100 per semester.

This programme no longer admits new full degree students. The last intake was August 2021.

Description

Translate your passion for programming into a valuable qualification.

The AP in Computer Science programme teaches you about databases and their structure. You will gain a foundation in information technology, and learn to develop, refine and maintain IT systems.

On the programme, you will learn to design and develop programs and apps in collaboration with others, and you will also learn about programming, needs analysis and business understanding.In addition, the 2½-year programme contains general subject areas such as business understanding, systems development, programming and technology.

These subject areas will give you insight into financial management in companies, systems analysis and quality assurance, programming languages, networks, databases and technology development.

On your fifth semester, you will do a 10-week internship.

Graduates can work with a wide range of information technology tasks, and the study programme equips you for a career as a computer programmer, systems developer or IT consultant, just to mention a few options.

Career Opportunities  

Graduates of the programme can work with many different information technology tasks. You can design IT systems, do programming and maintain large databases. You can also work as a consultant or advisor.

The shortage of computer science graduates means you can expect an excellent salary when you graduate. The latest figures show that new computer science graduates are paid DKK 28,000 - 30,000 per month after six months of employment. Typical jobs for computer science graduates are programmer, systems developer and IT consultant.

As a graduate, you will use your creativity, logic and systematic abilities.

Admission

An education equivalent to a Danish upper secondary education is required. 

Mathematics B-level is required in order to apply for the BA in Business Economics and IT. The Mathematics B-level is represented by 250 hours during the last three years of upper-secondary school (equivalent to the Danish B-level of a Danish upper-secondary examination).

A recognised English test must be submitted together with the application. 
Read more about our language requirements.

You have to apply online on www.optagelse.dk.

Tuition

Non-EU/EEA/CH citizens must pay a tuition fee of € 5,500 per semester.

This programme no longer admits new full degree students. The last intake was August 2021.

Description

If you dream about a career in the fashion, lifestyle and communications industries, the top-up Bachelor's Degree in Design & Business might be just the thing for you! 

On this top-up programme, you learn how to analyse a design task in relation to a customer's values and goals.

You work with design processes, trend theories and innovation from a business perspective.You will learn to plan, manage and execute complex, analytical and creative tasks backed by relevant theory and practice. In other words, you learn the theories and methods required to independently organise, manage and carry out design and business projects in the fashion and lifestyle industries.

The international top-up BA programme in Design & Business lasts three semesters and offers you the choice between the following two lines of specialisation:

• Communications Design & Media
• Brand Design

Design, business, sociology, knowledge production and method are subjects common to both lines of specialisation.

You will do an internship with a company to test your practical skills and gain useful experience of life in the workplace. Throughout your studies, you will work closely with companies, developing concepts and/or products for them and with them.

To get admitted to the top-up BA programme you must pass an admission test. You must choose your line of specialisation when you do the admission test.

Career Opportunities  

The programme is very much in demand in the business community and you will have good opportunities in small and medium-sized companies, as well as large manufacturers. Many graduates also work independently.

A Design & Business bachelor specialised in Brand Design is likely to find employment as for instance:

• Brand designer
• Marketing coordinator
• PR coordinator
• Web and PR coordinator
• Communications officer
• Project manager
• Concept developer
• Event coordinator
• Strategic planner
• Media planner
• Assistant art director
• Idea developer
• Independent entrepreneur 

A Design & Business bachelor specialised in Communication Design & Media is likely to find employment as for instance:

• Communications officer
• Visual communications officer
• Public relations officer
• Media strategy officer (written, visual and digital media)
• Media consultant
• Director of visual and written content (on e.g. social media)
• Trend researcher / forecaster
• Copywriter/ writer
• Corporate blogger
• Independent entrepreneur 

Admission  

The following Danish AP degrees qualify for admission:

• Design Technology & Business
• Multimedia Design 
• Marketing Management
• Production Technology
• E-Designer
• Commerce Management
• Marketing Management
• Service, Hospitality and Tourism Management

The programme also has a mandatory admission test. Read more about it here.

You will also have to meet the English requirements.
Read more about our language requirements.

You have to apply online on www.kea.dk. 

Tuition

Non-EU/EEA/CH citizens must pay a tuition fee of € 5,600 per semester.

This programme no longer admits new full degree students.  The last intake was August 2021.

Description

Enroll on a programme aimed at a career in fashion and lifestyle or marketing and communication!

If you are dreaming of a programme in which you can combine creativity, cutting-edge knowledge in fashion, lifestyle, marketing and communication, the Design, Technology and Business Academy Profession Programme may be just the thing for you.The programme takes four semesters, and as an international student, you may choose the Marketing & Communications Design specialisation.

The specialisation is aimed at a marketing and communications career.The four semesters give you comprehensive insight into industry value chains from concept and idea to product development, procurement and production, as well as sales and marketing, and you acquire specialised knowledge and competencies in your chosen line of specialisation.

The Design, Technology and Business Academy Profession programme provides you with the latest knowledge and competencies in design methods, trends, materials, production, communications and business models. You will collaborate with both local and global companies during your studies.

Admission to the Design, Technology and Business Academy Profession Programme requires that you pass an admission test. 

Career Opportunities  

The Design, Technology and Business Academy Profession Programme offers many competencies in great demand in the business community, and you will be qualified to work in small, medium-sized and large enterprises.

You will typically be qualified to work in the fashion and lifestyle industry as well as in the media and communications industry.

As a Design, Technology and Business graduate specialising in Marketing & Communication Design, you typically work with decoding market conditions and preparing concepts, marketing and communication materials aimed at promoting the knowledge of a company and boosting sales of the company’s products. For example with a job as:

• Marketing Assistant
• Communication Assistant
• PR Assistant  
• Event Coordinator
• Project Manager Assistant

Admission

An education equivalent to a Danish upper secondary education is required.

Mathematics C-level is required in order to apply for the AP Degree in Production Technology. The Mathematics C-level is represented by 125 hours during the last three years of upper-secondary school (equivalent to the Danish C-level of a Danish upper-secondary examination).

A recognised English test must be submitted together with the application. 
Read more about our language requirements.

The programme also has a mandatory admission test. Read more about it here.

You have to apply online on www.optagelse.dk

Tuition

Non-EU/EEA/CH citizens must pay a tuition fee of € 6,000 per semester

This programme no longer admits new full degree students. The last intake was August 2020.

Description

Would you like to work with jewellery design right from idea to sold product? 

The focus of the 3½-year programme is jewellery, technology and business and you will obtain a cross-disciplinary understanding of how to create jewellery using modern technology. We generally focus on how jewellery is conceptualised, produced, marketed and sold nationally and internationally.

The programme puts particular emphasis on preparing you to start your own company within the jewellery industry – also in an international perspective.

You will be working with jewellery design, product development, business, aesthetics, materials, concepts, trends, cultural understanding, innovation, marketing, and value and supply chains. In short, you will gain knowledge about the entire process from idea to sold jewellery product.

Starting from the value and supply chain, you will learn how to analyse the financial market sustainability of the jewellery concepts and to optimise production and logistics processes.You will learn to plan, manage and carry out complex processes resulting in innovative and creative possible solutions to challenges within jewellery production. We pay particular attention to functionality, Emotional Design, sustainability and choice of material in relation to the form and aesthetics of jewellery.

On the programme, we also focus strongly on Wearable Technology, makers Movement and The Quantified Self in relation to the technological jewellery industry of the future. You will learn to work with e.g. 3D print, prototypes and production regarding both unique jewellery specimens and mass production.The programme is only offered once every other year in English. The international programme is offered in 2022 and 2024.

Career Opportunities  

As a Bachelor in Jewellery, Technology and Business, you will be able to work on many different assignments within production, design and sale of jewellery. You can both design your own jewellery or develop concepts for other people’s jewellery. You can work with sale and marketing or assist in the technological part of the production. You may also work as a consultant or an advisor.

The programme puts a special emphasis on enabling you to start your own business within the industry – also in an international perspective.

As a Bachelor in Jewellery, Technology and Business, you must be ready to adapt since fashion changes every season. Old materials replace the new ones while, at the same time, retro waves sweep over the market.

Typical jobs for a Bachelor in Jewellery, Technology and Business are:

• Jewellery designer
• Trend spotter
• Concept developer
• Buyer
• Sourcer
• Sales and marketing employee
• PR coordinator
• Consultant/advisor
• Entrepreneur

Admission

A Danish upper secondary education or equivalent, or a vocational education is required.

A recognised English test must be submitted together with the application. 
Read more about our language requirements.

The programme also has a mandatory admission test. Read more about it here.

You have to apply online on www.optagelse.dk.

Tuition

Non-EU/EEA/CH citizens must pay a tuition fee of € 5,500 per semester

This programme no longer admits new full degree students. The last intake was January 2022.

Description

Would you like to learn to develop the latest digital design solutions? 

Multimedia Design is a digital design programme for digital minds with creative ideas.As a student on this programme, you will work with all levels of the digital design process and you will obtain skills within the areas of front-end design and programming, User Experience (UX), content production and business and technology.

During your studies, you will be in close contact with the business community and do projects together with different companies and organisations. We focus particularly on innovation and entrepreneurship and cooperate with a wide variety of agencies, companies and cultural organisations.

You will also do a ten-week internship during which you will get the chance to test your digital skills in practice either in Denmark or abroad.

As a graduate, you will be able to encode and design front-end solutions, develop digital user experiences and create digital design and content. You are likely to get a job as e.g. a front-end designer or a content manger/creator.

Career Opportunities  

As a graduate in Multimedia Design, you will be a digital entrepreneur with a tool box that enables you to work within a broad range of industries. Your job will typically involve designing, planning and managing multimedia tasks.

You may find work at a digital agency, you may become the digital manger in small or medium-sized companies or you may become your own digital agency if you choose to start as an entrepreneur with your own agency.

As a digital octopus, you will be able to work within many different areas of the IT and multimedia businesses, e.g.:

• Frontend designer
• Frontend developer
• UX designer
• Content manager
• SoMe manager
• Content creator
• E-commerce developer

Admission

An education equivalent to a Danish upper secondary education is required.

Mathematics C-level is required in order to apply for the AP Degree in Multimedia Design. The Mathematics C-level is represented by 125 hours during the last three years of upper-secondary school (equivalent to the Danish C-level of a Danish upper-secondary examination).

A recognised English test must be submitted together with the application. 
Read more about our language requirements.

You have to apply online on www.optagelse.dk.

Tuition

Non-EU/EEA/CH citizens must pay a tuition fee of € 5,400 per semester.

This programme no longer admits new full degree students. The last intake was August 2021.

Description

Look into the future and challenge existing boundaries.

Would you like to play a role when businesses develop new products or implement new technologies in production? With a BA in Product Development & Integrative Technology, your job will be to look to the future and to challenge existing solutions. At the same time, you must be able to argue in favor of your choices, and help to successfully manage processes from idea to finished product.

On the programme, you learn to apply your professional expertise, and you learn to interact with other disciplines to address and solve issues and problems in the best possible way. Both you and your fellow students have already completed your AP degrees, and together you must integrate your various backgrounds and expertise into your project work during the programme.The teaching focuses on problem-oriented project work and on solving concrete problems and issues defined by you and your fellow students and/or a company.

The programme provides you with analytical, methodological and practical skills that enable you to integrate and manage product development processes in technical fields. Products developed on this programme may be physical products, concepts or technical services.

After completing the programme, you will be working with all the disciplines involved in developing new products, and you will be the expert in terms of communicating and integrating these disciplines in the product development so that the best and most  future-proof product will ultimately reach the consumers.

The BA programme in Product Development & Integrative Technology allows you to top up your existing AP qualification in installation, automation, energy, product development/production and IT network/electronics.

Career Opportunities  

Having completed the BA programme in Product Development & Integrative Technology, you can pursue a career in many different types of businesses.

Your forte will be your ability to work in an interdisciplinary way, and you will often gradually move towards a role as coordinator, project manager, consultant or technical manager.

Admission  

The following AP degree programmes qualify for admission: Service Engineering, Power Current Engineering, Energy Technology, Automations Technology, IT Technology, Production Technology.

You will also have to prove your English level. 
Read more about our language requirements.

Tuition

Non-EU/EEA/CH citizens must pay a tuition fee of € 5,600 per semester

This programme no longer admits new full degree students. The last intake was August 2021.

Description

Would you like to work in the crossfield between product development, process and production and contribute to developing solutions that create value for customers and businesses?

Is your head full of creative ideas that you would love to transform into new and innovative products? On the AP in Production Technology programme, you learn everything about turning ideas into finished products. You learn to think through the process from the first bit of scribble on a piece of paper until you stand there with a uniform product ready for mass production.

As a student on the programme, you also acquire technical, innovative and analytical skills in relation to the actual production, enabling you to come up with solutions that can help optimise production in a company. You work with cases which not only focus on construction and production, but which also look at other aspects like business models, markets and users.

As a key element of the programme, you learn to work with your fellow students to address problems and challenges in the industry. You and your fellow students are involved in defining projects, but the projects which you do are always based on real-life issues and problems which must be resolved by means of e.g. construction calculations, choice of materials and design solutions.

The first year provides you with fundamental insight into a number of core areas, such as product development and design, construction, materials and manufacturing processes and business technology.

Career Opportunities

The job of a production technologist typically involves developing new products, as well as participating in production planning and management. You can also handle jobs within technical marketing as well as technical procurement and sales. Possible future job titles include:

• Product developer
• Concept developer
• Project manager
• Operations planner
• Designer
• Procurement officer
• Sales consultant
• Quality manager
• Production supervisor

Admission

An education equivalent to a Danish upper secondary education is required.

Mathematics C-level is required in order to apply for the AP Degree in Production Technology. The Mathematics C-level is represented by 125 hours during the last three years of upper-secondary school (equivalent to the Danish C-level of a Danish upper-secondary examination).

A recognised English test must be submitted together with the application. 
Read more about our language requirements.

You have to apply online on www.optagelse.dk.

Tuition

Non-EU/EEA/CH citizens must pay a tuition fee of € 6,200 per semester.

This programme no longer admits new full degree students. The last intake was January 2022.

Description

Dreaming of a future in the software industry? 

On the software development top-up programme you will learn how to develop and manage large distributed data-intensive systems.

You will work with all the various aspects of software development, such as databases, contracts, testing, systems integration, project management and systems development.

During the programme, you will be in close contact with the business community in relation to e.g. projects and the internship.

The teaching is project-based, which provides a solid foundation for understanding business processes, and assignments are normally carried out in groups.

Examples of electives include Project Management and IT Security. Depending on the latest trends in the field, the electives offered may vary from semester to semester.

Career Opportunities  

Bachelors in Software Development typically find work as system developers for large (global) IT projects, and over time find work as architects or project managers for such projects.  
 
You can be employed, for example, as:

• Software developer
• Software coordinator
• Software analyst
• Software programmer
• Project manager
• Quality assurance analyst
• IT architect

Admission  

You must have an AP Degree in Computer Science.

Moreover, you also need to prove your English level.
Read more about our language requirements.

You have to apply online on www.kea.dk. 

Tuition

Non-EU/EEA/CH citizens must pay a tuition fee of € 5,400 per semester

This programme no longer admits new full degree students. The last intake was January 2022.

Description

Would you like to design and program apps for the web?

As a Web Developer, you will learn to manage the entire process of designing and building applications for the web in projects of all sizes.

You will work creatively with coding and implementing real projects, while also developing your skills to a professional level.

As a web developer graduate, you will typically be able to find work in the development departments of major consulting firms or software companies that work with web development.

Examples of electives include Mobile Platforms or Web Security. Depending on the latest trends in the field, the electives offered may vary from semester to semester.

Career Opportunities  

With a BA in Web Development, you will typically be able to find a job in internal development departments of companies of all sizes, or in large consulting or software firms in the area of web applications.You can be employed for example as:

• Front- or back end developer
• Programmer
• Webmaster
• Web programmer
• Web shop manager and developer
• Internal programmer
• Web designer

Moreover, the programme will qualify you to continue relevant educational studies at masters degree level at a Danish or international university.

Admission  

The following Danish AP degrees qualify for admission:

• AP degree in Multimedia Design & Communication
• AP degree in Computer science

You will also have to prove your English level. 
Read more about our language requirements.

You have to apply online on www.kea.dk. 

Tuition

Non-EU/EEA/CH citizens must pay a tuition fee of € 5,400 per semester