Admissions

Admissions

The Jutland Art Academy offers a five-year programme of higher education within the field of fine art.

Admissions are open once a year. See key dates below.

The total programme comprises two parts: a three-year Basic Programme and a two-year Diploma Programme. Students who are admitted to the Basic Programme are guaranteed a place on the Diploma Programme as soon as they have completed the Basic Programme, taken part in the 3^rd Year Exhibition and passed the 3^rd year examination. Students at the Jutland Art Academy are eligible for SU (the Danish State Educational Grant and Loan Scheme), and you apply for SU (grants and loans) after the admission has been confirmed.

Every spring, the Jutland Art Academy Arts admits a number of new students to the Basic Programme and the Diploma Programme; studies usually begin on September 2.

Read the Jutland Art Academy’s privacy policy regarding admission.

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Admission to the Basic Programme

Students are admitted to the Basic Programme on the basis of a personal statement (known in Danish as a ‘motivated application’) and documentation of five works of art created by the applicant. Every year, the academy receives far more applications than we have places for, so we urge you to spend time and effort on properly preparing your application. One of the prerequisites for admission is that the applicant must already have worked with visual art before applying. For example, it will count in your favour if you have received art tuition at a preparatory art school, a folk high school or similar.

In their first semester, new students will follow a special introductory course, but will also be part of the general Basic Programme right from day one, meaning that new students will be taught together with the rest of the academy’s students.

Admission requirements

There are no formal requirements in terms of qualifying examinations or specific technical skills. The final selection is made on the basis of an assessment of the applicant’s artistic work as well as an assessment of the applicant’s ability to complete a study programme. The academic and technical aspects of the programme both require the ability to engage in a distinctly independent practice.

Language proficiency

Students on the Basic Programme are expected to have a good understanding of Danish or another Scandinavian language and a basic proficiency in English sufficient to be able to express themselves orally and read texts in English.

Submitting your application

Applications are submitted via an online portal. You must create a user profile to apply. Please note that the data provided on the profile will be included in your application, so it is important that you provide correct details. You will be asked to provide various details about your educational background. The application must include a personal statement of 1000–2200 characters in length (with spaces). In this statement, you must state your reasons for wanting to be admitted as a student at the Jutland Art Academy. We also urge you to present some thoughts on your own works and, if possible, references to sources of inspiration. For example, you might include references to artists whose work you find relevant to your own. You are also welcome to point out sources of inspiration within contemporary art, art history, literature, and other art forms and fields of knowledge.

The application must include documentation presenting five of your own works of art. In the case of video and audio works with a duration of more than 30 minutes, three works are enough. Include information on the titles, material and dimensions (measurements, duration, etc) of your works. It is also important to make it clear whether you are submitting documentation (for example of a sculpture or performance) or the actual work itself. If a given work is intended to be displayed/presented under specific conditions, you can indicate this in the comment field for each work.

Allowed Media Types:

• Images (up to 5MB each)
• Video (up to 250MB each)
• Audio (up to 30MB each)
• PDFs (up to 10MB each)
• External media from YouTube, Vimeo and SoundCloud

Application fee: USD 88
The Jutland Academy of Arts charges an application fee of USD 88. As the fee covers admission costs, it is not refunded regardless of whether the applicant is or is not admitted as a student at the Jutland Academy of Arts.

Credit transfer
Remember to write in your application if you wish to apply for credit transfer from previous education at the same level.

Confirmation
You will receive an automatic confirmation email from Slideroom once your application has been submitted (remember to check your spam filter). You cannot change your application after submission and the academy does not accept any additional materials via email or otherwise.

If you experience any technical difficulties with the digital application portal, please contact support@slideroom.com for tech support.

The admissions process for the Basic Programme

The same two-stage admissions procedure is followed for applications at both levels. First, an admissions committee assesses all applications. Out of these, the committee selects approximately twenty candidates that are deemed most suitable for admission; these are invited for a personal interview of a duration of fifteen to twenty minutes. Depending on the composition of the committee and the applicant’s background, this interview will take place in Scandinavian or English. The academy bases its final decision on the application and interview, admitting approximately ten new students each year. If there are more suitable candidates than there are places, the academy sets up a waiting list. Candidates on the waiting list may be accepted right up until studies commence at the beginning of September.

The admissions committee consists of the rector, the academy’s tenured teachers of fine arts, an external artist and a student currently studying at the academy.