Media design

With Media Design you have many opportunities to study further. The field of study is an obvious choice for those who dream of a future within communication, design and digital media.

Your skills can lead you towards jobs such as:

• Branding consultant

• Project Manager

• Concept developer

• Interior designer

• Digital creator

• Entrepreneur

• Production designer

You will gain a strong combination of creativity, technology and visual understanding, which you can build on through higher education and later use in the creative industry.

See your options for higher education on the Admissions Card on the Education Guide.

You apply via optagelse.dk

The application deadline is March 1st at 12:00. If you apply later, you will have to take an entrance exam, even if you meet all admission requirements. You will receive a response to your application in April.

Admission requirements after 9th grade

If you apply to HTX after 9th grade, you have the right to be admitted if you meet the admission requirements. This is officially called having a legal right to admission. The right is valid for up to two years after you have completed 9th grade.

Basically, you must:

• apply via Optagelse.dk no later than March 1st at 12 noon

• have had German or French in 6th-9th grade

• have at least a 5.0 average in your final standing grades

• have taken the compulsory primary school exams

• have passed the primary school leaving exam

• have at least a 5.0 average in the statutory tests.

Admission requirements after 10th grade

If you did not meet the admission requirements after 9th grade, you can still do so after 10th grade. Here, your right to admission applies for up to one year after you have completed 10th grade.

Basically, you must:

• apply via Optagelse.dk no later than March 1st at 12 noon

• have had German or French in 6th-9th grade

• have received instruction in Danish, English and mathematics in 10th grade

• have at least a 5.0 average in your final 10th grade standing grades

• have taken the compulsory primary school exams in 9th grade

• have passed the primary school leaving exam

• have taken the 9th or 10th grade exam in Danish and mathematics in 10th grade

• have taken a 10th grade English exam

• have at least a 5.0 average in the statutory tests.

What if you don't meet all the entry requirements?

Even if you do not meet all the requirements above, you may still have a chance of being admitted to HTX. This depends on your grades, among other things, and in some cases you will have to attend a guidance interview or an admissions test and interview.

What if my average is below 5.0?

If you have at least a 5.0 average in your standing grades, but below 5.0 in the statutory tests, you may still be entitled to admission:

• If you have at least a 3.0 average in the statutory tests, you are entitled to admission.

• If you have a GPA between 2.0 and 3.0, you will have to attend a guidance interview with the head of the upper secondary school. Once the interview is completed, you are eligible for admission.

If you have an average of less than 5.0 in your standing grades, you may also be entitled to admission if you get at least 6.0 in average in the statutory tests.

In all cases, you must meet the other admission requirements.

What are the statutory tests?

The legally required tests are the test in a practical/music elective in 8th grade as well as the tests in oral Danish, written Danish, written mathematics and the joint test in physics/chemistry, biology and geography in 9th grade.

The oral selection test in grade 9 counts towards the average for the primary school leaving exam, but not towards the average for the statutory tests.

What grades count after 10th grade?

When searching for 10th grade, test scores from 9th and 10th grade can in some cases be combined if it is to your advantage.

When calculating the average in the statutory tests, the highest relevant grades you have received in the 9th or 10th grade are used.

This only applies to test grades. When it comes to grade points, it is your final grade points from 10th grade that count.

What applies after an exam-free 10th year of school?

If you take an exam-free 10th year of school – or if you choose not to take exams in Danish, English and mathematics – you cannot be entitled to admission based on your 10th grade.

If you have already met the admission requirements after 9th grade, your right to admission still applies for up to two years after you completed 9th grade.

What if I don't meet the entry requirements?

If you do not meet the admission requirements, it does not necessarily mean that you cannot enter HTX.

You may instead be assessed on the basis of an entrance exam and an interview. Here, the high school makes an overall assessment of your academic, social and personal qualifications to begin and complete the education.

When you choose Media Design, you get a combination of mandatory subjects and the opportunity to choose your own.

Field of study
These are the subjects that characterize this particular line:

• Communication/IT A

• Design B

Compulsory subjects
These are subjects that all students in this field of study have:

• Danish A

• Engineering subject A

• English B

• Physics B

• Idea story B

• Chemistry B

• Mathematics B

• Technology B

• Biology C

Electives
At Media Design you must choose one of the following options:

• either a level-up

• or two new subjects at C level

What is a level-up?
A level increase means that you take one of your subjects at a higher level than what is already in the field of study.

For example, you have Mathematics at B level. If you choose Mathematics A as a remedial course, you will complete the subject at A level instead.

You can choose to lift:

• Physics for A-level

• Chemistry for A-level

• English to A-level

• Mathematics for A-level

• Technology for A-level

• Social studies at B-level

• German (continued) C

What can you choose as a new C subject?
If you choose a C subject instead, you will get a completely new subject on your schedule.

You can choose:

• Business Administration C

• Psychology C

• Music C

• Sports C

• Media Subject C

• Philosophy C

Please note that the courses offered each year may vary.