International Students

If you are a foreign citizen, you have the possibility to apply for the state educational grant (SU).
You apply for equal status under either Danish or EU law. This depends on which criteria you fulfill.

It is important to remember that you cannot apply for SU before you:

• have accepted your study place
• are a registered citizen in Denmark
• have checked the rules that apply to your specific situation

You probably have a lot of questions to what life in Denmark is like.

How do you open a bank account? What about finding a student job? Is getting a bike absolutely necessary? Is health care really free?

You will find the answer to this and a lot more in the Survival Guide.

Danish law requires everyone staying in Denmark for more than three months to register with the Civil Registration System – for Nordic or EU/EEA/Swiss citizens it is six months.

Once registered, you will receive a social security number (in Danish referred to as a CPR-number), which will be unique to your person and which you will need for most registrations in Denmark.

EU/EEA or Swiss citizens need to get an EU registration certificate from The Danish Agency for International Recruitment and Integration (SIRI), before you can apply for a CPR-number.