Københavns Universitet
Statistics Denmark institution 101582 · figures for 2025
- Students
- 36,267
- Entrants
- 12,848
- Completions
- 10,851
- Women
- 62.8%
on 1 October
started that year
degrees finished
Students over time
2011 to 2025 — -8.2%.
2011: 39,4972025: 36,267
What students study
Bachelors programs53%
Masters programs45%
Vocational bachelors educations1%
What isn't here
Tuition — Danish higher education is free for EU/EEA and Swiss citizens, and each institution sets its own fee for everyone else, none of it published centrally. Admission cut-offs (adgangskvotienter) are run through the ministry's coordinated admission system rather than published as statistics. And Denmark does not break out graduate earnings per institution.
The other Danish universities
Source: Danmarks Statistik (Statistics Denmark), StatBank table INST20, licensed CC BY 4.0.
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