Your grade average
Danish higher education fills most places through one coordinated admission (KOT). In quota 1, places go by upper-secondary grade average. We compare yours with the 2026 quota 1 cut-off, which exists for 349 of the 927 admission areas at 31 institutions — universities, university colleges, business academies and specialised schools.
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Use the average your application is assessed on in quota 1 — the one on your diploma, including any adjustment that applies to you. Half of the 2026 cut-offs lay between 6.3 and 8.9; the lowest was 2.0 and the highest 11.4.
Read this before you rely on the results
- The quota 1 cut-off (adgangskvotient) is the lowest grade average that gave admission through quota 1 in the 2026 main round, as published on 28 July 2026. It is the result of that year's applicants and places, not a requirement set in advance, and it is not a prediction for next year.
- Cut-offs move every year. Of the 276 programmes with a cut-off in both 2025 and 2026, half moved by 0.4 or more, a quarter by more than 0.8, and about one in twelve rose by more than 1.0.
- Not covered: quota 2 (places given on an individual assessment, with criteria each institution sets), the standby list beyond its own cut-off, programme-specific entry requirements (required subjects and levels, minimum marks, entrance tests), and how a non-Danish qualification is converted to the Danish scale. We compare one average with every programme and convert nothing.
- Only 349 of 927 admission areas had a cut-off. At 522 every qualified applicant was admitted, and 56 do not admit on grade average at all; both are listed separately, never as “safe”.
Almost all of these programmes are taught in Danish and names are shown in Danish, as published. Those the admission system lists under an English name are marked; check the language of instruction with the institution. The data has no tuition figures, so we show none.
Here every applicant who was eligible and met the programme's entry requirements was admitted in 2026, so no cut-off was formed. That is not the same as open entry: the entry requirements still apply, and a programme with room one year can fill the next — 60 admission areas that admitted everyone in 2025 had a cut-off in 2026. Source: Uddannelses- og Forskningsstyrelsen (Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science) — KOT Hovedtal 2026, as at 28 July 2026, and the Uddannelseszoom data file of 19 June 2026 (the ministry's data warehouse, based on data from Danmarks Statistik). Figures were re-keyed, matched and summarised by CollegeMatcher; any error in doing so is ours.