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Take a break, play a game.

At KEA Library we have a large collection of board games that you can borrow and play in a cosy corner of the library.

KEA Library covers all KEA’s programmes and subjects.

As a KEA student, you are automatically set up as a borrower, and you can borrow as many of our 14,000 physical books as you like.

Search our library catalogue, and find the books you need!

You can borrow a book for 30 days and renew your loan three times if it has not been reserved. You use your social security number/health insurance card to borrow.

After graduation from KEA you can become self-employed, get employment in a company or pursue further education. Your study and career counsellor can guide you in defining your career wishes and your career options at KEA or elsewhere.

If you want to know what kind of jobs are relevant with the degree you’re studying for, try searching by job title on various job databases. Along with the development of your professional profile, other kinds of jobs will be relevant to search for also.  The electives you take and the internship you go through may also be decisive for your job profile. You can get an idea of the average levels of salary by searching by your programme on www.uddannelseszoom.dk (This site is only in Danish).

You’ll be working across disciplines, obtaining specific competencies no matter the programme you study at KEA. Such disciplines include:

• Design (the combination of visual and technical design)
• Technology (knowledge of the newest technology and its most effective application)
• Project management (project development, project planning, project organisation)
• Business (understanding, marketing, communication, finance and commerce)
• Innovation (idea creation, idea upsizing, innovative ways of doing things, utilising knowledge)
• Entrepreneurship (development and launch of new projects and new enterprises)
• Cooperation and teamwork (colleagues, customers, partners)
• Personal leadership (organisation of time and tasks)
• Communication and presentation (presentation of proposals for solutions with confidence and professionalism)
• Networking (relevant contacts in the industry and business community and amongst fellow students)
• Being social (cooperation. These competencies are just as important to a business as academic competencies)
• Internationalisation (an international study environment, the opportunity to do international projects and internship, collaboration with others from different cultures and academic backgrounds)

If you want to know more, feel free to contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or read more at alumne.kea.dk.

Employment

All of these will also be competencies to use in your search for a job.

Whether you are looking for a student job or you are a soon-to-be graduate searching for a job, you need to write a successful CV. You can contact your trade union, or find good advice at WORK IN DENMARK.

BECOMING SELF-EMPLOYED

Your study and career counsellor can guide you in assessing your skills and clarifying your career goals.

We can inform you about ongoing KEA projects that are tailored to increasing your knowledge in entreprenurship and innovation.

You will find information on entreprenurial projects in KEA Applied Research & Innovation at KEA.DK.

The study and career counselors are ready with guidance in relation to your challenges, opportunities and choices

The KEA Charrette is held once a year. The Charette form is intense time-limited cooperation on innovative solutions to complex tasks. The participants are students from different kinds of education and different countries and cultures. The challenge takes place in KEA’s surroundings in Nørrebro, Copenhagen, and takes place in the autumn.

The concept provides a good framework for the combination of learning, cooperating and being innovative in a cultural meeting. It consists of three main elements:

• Listening to project owners and other stakeholders
• Imagining how all points of view can be united into a result that remains sustainable and financially justifiable, etc.
• Drawing quick sketches that open up for creative thinking and ongoing dialogue

KEA’s students have a third of the seats in the Charrette and guest students from partner institutions abroad have two-thirds of the seats. If you’re interested in participating as a student, you must therefore apply for a seat.

Read about the Charrette on global.kea.dk

From Monday to Thursday there is a light cleaning in classrooms and offices, and during the weekend there is thorough cleaning unless otherwise agreed.

If you want the surfaces to be wiped, for example windowsills or desks, you must make sure that they have been cleared.

If you have questions or comments about the cleaning, you are welcome to contact Service Desk (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - remember to write from your KEA-mail).

More information will follow...

If you wish to complain about your exam, read more under Exam.

You can apply for credit transfer on the basis of completed programme elements or employment corresponding to the element(s) in question. 

KEA will assess your application individually based on the information you provide. It is important that you attach documentation to your application.

Documentation

Such documentation can be:

• Documentation for completed programme elements: diploma, documentation from the educational institution, course description, programme regulations, syllabus list, etc.
• Documentation for employment: pay slip, employer's declaration, formal description of tasks or qualifications.

RESPONSE TO YOUR APPLICATION

Your application will be processed by the head of programme and the Study Administration. The head of programme will determine if you can be allowed an exemption. You will receive a reply from the Study Administration within five weeks.

COMPLAINT INSTRUCTIONS

If you wish to appeal against the decision, you must, within two weeks of receiving the response to your application, submit a written and reasoned complaint to this mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

All KEA’s programmes are governed by a curriculum. Among other things, the curriculum describes your subjects, what semester they occur in, their intended learning goals for your knowledge, skills and competences, how to work with the study and when the exams will take place.

You can find your curriculum in our curriculum database

The goal of your course of study is for you to acquire knowledge, skills and competencies within disciplines of professional relevance to your line of education. KEA is a higher education institution and therefore offers teaching on the tertiary level.

The curriculum refers to knowledge, skills and competencies to describe the concrete learning objectives of your education, i.e. what your learn. EU institutions use knowledge, skills and competences as a common frame of reference to compare educational programmes. Among other things, this enables credit transfer.  In your programme curriculum, you’ll find the specific learning goals for your programme, split into knowledge, skills and competences.

Knowledge and skills may be learned and form the basis for competences. We obtain knowledge by studying something, by taking classes and reading, whereas we obtain skills by doing exercises corresponding to practice.

We have acquired competences when we’re able to combine new knowledge and skills as a basis for competent action, meaning that we are able to use both theory and practice to solve a task.

The subjects in your programme are worth a number of ECTS points. See more under ECTS.

If, on agreement with a teacher, you order a large batch of study-related goods for delivery at one of KEA’s addresses, you must be present to pick it up yourself.

If you need help with collecting it, please write to the Service Desk (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - remember to write from your KEA-mail) at least one workday before delivery. If possible, request that the goods be delivered to a particular floor and room number.

For delivery of goods to GBG, state the following delivery address:
Meinungsgade 6
2200 Copenhagen N

If the goods are to be used immediately, the supplier must remove any packaging. It is not possible to store goods which are not to be used within the foreseeable future. 

The subjects in your programme are worth a number of ECTS points. In the programme curriculum you can see how many ECTS each individual subject is worth. ECTS is an abbreviation of the European Credit Transfer System. It is an EU standard which, among other things, is used to transfer merit for modules at the same level of education run in different educational institutions abroad or in Denmark.

ECTS points rate a programme or a programme element in number of working hours. One semester equals 30 ECTS. This is a measure of the work hours you must put into your study as a student . For a full-time programme, the ECTS points correspond to 37 hours of work per week spread over preparation, assignments and classes. In a year, this includes normal holidays for full-time work. But ECTS points are NOT an indication of educational level, degree of difficulty or the number of classes.

In OUR ACTIVE ENROLMENT MODEL you can see what is expected of you as a student at KEA. In the Course Catalogue you can see how many hours of teaching and preparation you can expect to use on a specific subject.

Copenhagen School of Design and Technology, KEA, offers practice-oriented further education in the form of Academy Profession (AP) Degree Programmes and Bachelor’s Degree Programmes.

If you’ve been admitted to KEA, you’ve chosen a school with a practice-oriented approach as opposed to the more theoretical methodology of the universities. These are two different methods. One does not replace the other, they complement each other. 

If you’ve graduated with an AP or a Bachelor’s degree from KEA you have the possibility of topping up with a range of continuing education. However, with a few exceptions, there is no immediate line from KEA’s programmes to the universities’ Master’s programmes. The individual universities will assess whether to admit you to a Master’s on the basis of your profile.

If you want to know more, feel free to contact KEA Study and Career Guidance at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

More information will follow... 

If you have questions about entrepreneurship at KEA and your opportunities as a student, please contact our entrepreneurship-team at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

You can also read more about the opportunities as an entrepreneur at kea.dk

Once a year, all the teachers at KEA are evaluated by their students - part-time as well as full-time. The evaluation forms the basis for dialogue and development for the teachers as well as their superiors.

Download teaching evaluation 2017 (pdf)

Download teaching evaluation 2016 (pdf)

Download teaching evaluation 2015 (pdf)

The purpose of the exam is to document to what extent you as a student meet the academic goals set for the education in the curriculum.

You are automatically enrolled in the exam and have three attempts at each exam.

If you do not show up at the exam or fail to hand in, this counts as an exam attempt.

If you fail all three attempts; you will be excluded from the study. You are not entitled to retake the semester.

Extra time for examination

You can apply for extra time for written exams if you can prove that you are dyslexic. The head of programme decides whether you can have extra time and how much extra time you may have.

You can apply for extra time for oral examinations if you stutter. The head of programme decides whether you can have extra time and how much extra time you may have.

Application for exemption must be sent through SDBF.

4th examination attempt

You can apply for exemption in the form of a 4th exam attempt, if this is based on unusual circumstances, such as critical illness in the family, divorce, death.

Application for exemption must be sent through SDBF.

Response to your application

Your application will be processed by the head of programme and the Study Administration. The head of programme will determine if you can be allowed an exemption. You will receive a reply from the Study Administration within five weeks.

Exam cheating

If you do something - intentionally or unintentionally - that gives you better terms than those assigned, it will be regarded as cheating.

If you help someone else to gain an unfair advantage for the exam, this will be regarded as cheating.

At STOPPLAGIAT.NU you can get help to avoid plagiarism.

In your programme curriculum you will find procedures and consequences in connection with exam cheating.

Complaints

You can complain about:

• the basis of the examination
• the examination process
• the assessment (grade).

Your complaint must be in writing and justified.

Send your complaint to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. no later than two weeks after the announcement of the assessment (grade).

The decision will be sent in writing and may be:

• An offer for a re-assessment (written exams only)
• An offer to resit the exam or
• A ruling against your appeal

Please note that resit of an exam can result in a lower grade.