ECTS-credits & Grading Scale

ECTS

The Engineering College uses the ECTS (European Credit Transfer System), which makes it possible to measure and compare academic qualifications and transfer results from one institution to another across national borders.
  

The International Semesters in Mechanical Design (11 months) is a 62,5 ECTS-credit programme.

If you only take the first semester it equals 32,5 ECTS-credits.
 

The International Semester in Wastewater Engineering (5 months) is a 30 ECTS-credit programme.
 

The International Semester in Water Supply Engineering (5 months) is a 30 ECTS-credit programme. 
  

The International Semester in Industrial Software Engineering 1 (5 months) is a 30 ECTS-credit programme.

The International Semester in Industrial Software Engineering 2 is a 30 ECTS-credit programme.

The International Semester in Embedded Digital Signal Processing 1 (5 months) is a 30 30 ECTS-credit programme.

The International Semester in Embedded Digital Signal Processing 2 is a 30 30 ECTS-credit programme.

The Final Project has an extent of 30 ECTS-credits.

The Denmark Today course (at the University of Aarhus) has an extent of 6.5 ECTS-credits. (read more)

Important: Remember to check with your home institution if the credits are transferable to your programme of study. 

The Grading Scale

Each course, or more courses in common, is completed either by an approval of participation, with a mark "passed", or with a mark according to the Danish marking scale ("the 7 point grading scale"). The mark "passed" can be translated to an ECTS-mark if requested.