How to apply

If you want to study at Ilisimatusarfik as a guest student for a semester, then you should:

• Be a full-time student, and
• Have completed at least two full years at an accredited institution

Graduate students who come via Erasmus +, Nordplus, UArctic or another cooperation agreement have priority.

Ilisimatusarfik offers courses in Danish and Greenlandic in all our programmes - see the programmes' curriculum for more information about the course content (click on the Danish or Greenlandic version of this website).

Please note: we only offer few courses in English.

Your language skills will determine which courses you can apply for as a guest student.

If you are a student at a university, where we have a partnership agreement - or your university is part of a network agreement, then your international coordinator is to nominate you as a guest student at Ilisimatusarfik.

Nomination deadlines:

• Fall Semester (September start): 01 May
• Spring semester (February start): 01 October

Fill in our online application forms:

• The application form (it is ok only to write which programme you apply for as a guest student - we will find your courses later)

• Application form for accommodation (please note: in Nuuk, student accommodation is very limited. For this reason, it is only possible to apply for student accommodation for one semester as a guest student - nominated graduate students from partner universities have priority)

• If you are a student at a university, where we have a partnership agreement - or your university is part of a network agreement, then your international coordinator has to nominate you as a guest student at Ilisimatusarfik
  

Note: before you can submit the application form online - you have to attach the following files (so have them ready):

• Scan of your passport (front, back, name page)

• Academic transcript from your home university

• TOEFL or IELTS (if you are to take some of our few courses in English)

Submit your online application(s) before these deadlines:

• Fall Semester (September start): application deadline is 01 May
• Spring semester (February start): application deadline is 01 October

We will send you a response to your application after the deadline has expired.

If you have been accepted as a guest student, you will receive additional information.