About SU

You must obtain 5 ECTS for each SU clip, you use/receive.

From an SU perspective, you are delayed in your studies, if you are more than 30 ECTS delayed. 

Read more about the details connected to approved delay under Study activity requirements and SU. 

If you are declared study inactive, your SU will stop the following month. You can be declared study active again when you have obtained ECTS, after which you will have to apply for SU again.

You can apply for additional clips if you are ill for a period of time, causing you to be delayed. It is a precondition for getting additional clips that you were delayed in your studies due to special circumstances and that you received SU when the delay occurred.

If you cannot complete your studies within the standard time limit, you must go to minSU and apply for a new end date on your studies. You need to check if you actually have enough SU clips to extend your education.

For example if you have your thesis deadline postponed, you will not automatically receive your SU grants in the extended period.

The SU employers at ITU will approve or decline your application for prolonged SU, depending on whether you live up to the conditions for receiving SU and if you still have SU clips.

If you are going abroad to study and have to pay tuition fee to your university abroad, you may apply for an SU scholarship to cover your expenses.

Read more about SU scholarships for studies abroad.

While away
If you are registered as being out of Denmark in the CPR-register, while on exchange, you need to notify SU about the period for your exchange. This ensures that you will receive the SU rate for living on your own. You notify us through "Ret min SU" / Oplys særlige bopælsforhold.

If you register your address with your parents while away instead, you will receive the SU rate for living at home with your parents.

If you are not registered as being out of Denmark, your SU will be defined as a standard by your address, either living on your own or living with your parents.

You can apply for up to 9 extra SU grants portions in connection with becoming a parent. 

You can receive the extra grant portions in connection with the birth/adoption of your child.

Read about extra SU grant portions due to becoming a parent.

If you have general questions about SU you can contact the front office for Student Affairs and Programmes.
See the SAP front opening hours here.

For guidance on a specific issue related to your SU please contact our SU team either by e-mail (SAP@itu.dk) or by phone.
See the SU team phone hours here.

If your question is related to the process of applying for equal status, repayment claims or disability supplement you can also contact The Danish Educational Support Board.
For contact information please follow this link.

For questions concerning repayment of SU loan and SU debt, you will need to contact borger.dk. Please follow this link.

One month of SU counts as one grant portion (1 “klip”). The overall SU is divided into up to 70 grants portions which equals 70 months of SU. This means that for a higher education you can receive SU for 70 months. The 70 grants portions equal 6 years of studies (5 years and 10 months).

Please note that from January 2027 the overall amount of SU will be up to 58 grant portions for all SU recipients admitted after 1 July 2025 (except for recipients of supplementary grant for physically or mentally disabled and single parent providers). Read about the SU reform at SU’s website here.

SU is transferred to your NemKonto account, and you are in charge of registering which account is your NemKonto.

You receive your SU in advance. For example, you will be receiving your SU for the month of November already at the end of October. 

Please be aware of the SU-reform that is put into action January 1, 2027. All students enrolled Autumn 2025 or later will be effected by this. Read more here

When you start your education, you will be granted SU corresponding to your study programme’s standard duration in months.

If you are admitted to your first higher education course no later than two years after having completed your qualifying exam, you will receive SU to the standard duration of the education + 12 extra grant portions. These extra grant portions can be used if you are delayed in your studies or you change your study programme. 

Important: On January 1 2027, these 12 extra grant portions will be removed with the commencement of the SU-reform.

Extending your frame for SU
For students with a professional bachelor’s degree (professionsbachelor) with a duration of more than 3 years, or a BSc programme with propedeutics, please look up the possibilities for expanding the frame for your SU.

Contact SAP at SAP@itu.dk and let us know that you have a professional bachelor’s degree.

• You can apply for SU one month before the month where you qualify for SU at the earliest. If you can receive SU from September, you can apply at the earliest August 1.
• If your programme starts after the 20th in a month, you are not entitled to SU for that month. 
• The deadline for applying for SU for e.g. the month of August is August 31.
• The deadline for applying for SU for the month of December is December 5. If you apply after this, you will receive SU from January at the earliest.

Important:
We recommend that you wait a couple of days, from accepting your place on your programme, until you apply for SU. Then we will have registered your programme which makes it easier for you to apply for SU.

It is your registered address on the first day of the month that determines your status, and which rate you can receive in State educational grant (SU). The rate depends on whether you are registered at the same address as your parents or not.

Your residence status is automatically and continuously determined based on information input from the CPR-register.

If you move away from home, but have already received SU as living at home that month, your SU grant will retroactively be adjusted, so you will receive the amount corresponding to the rate for living away from home. This can take 1-2 weeks.

You will find information about your residence status at SU’s website here.

The details:
You are considered to be living at home if:

• You are registered on the same address as one or both of your parents
• Or you often live at one or both of your parents’, aside from public holidays and Sundays, regardless of where your address is registered

You are considered to be living on your own if:

• You do not live with your parents, and you are not registered on the same address as one or both of your parents
• You are living at a boarding school, school home or similar. This applies even if you are registered with an address at one or both of your parents’
• You are living abroad (unless you are living with one or both of your parents abroad)
• You are studying abroad and not living with one or both of your parents while studying abroad
• You are registered on the same address as one or both of your parents, but it is your parents who are registered to your address

If you start on a higher education programme consisting of both a BSc and an MSc programme, you need to apply for SU for each individual programme.

You will be able to receive SU in the summer period after finishing your BSc, if:

• You begin on a MSc programme no later than two months after having finished the BSc programme and
• You apply for SU within the normal deadlines
  
  

If you are the caretaker of a child you can receive a supplementary SU-loan and in some instances you can also receive a supplement to your SU (forsørgertillæg)

You are considered a caretaker of a child, if:

• You are the biological parent or the adoptive parent to a child under the age of 18 and
• The child’s address is registered at your address

You will not be considered the caretaker if you are for example the foster parent or stepmom/stepdad of a child.

If you are a single caretaker of a child or living with another person receiving SU you can be granted a supplementary SU-loan and a supplement to your SU.

You can apply for an SU loan in MinSU all year, if you are enrolled in the same programme all year.

You need to be eligible for SU and receive SU to be able to receive an SU loan.

The SU loan can only be transferred after you have approved the loan plan and accepted the terms for the loan. As is the standard rule for SU, December 5 is the deadline for applying for the month of December. The deadline for accepting the terms and approving the loan for a loan starting December is December 15.

The deadline for adjusting the loan (bigger or smaller) is the 15th of every month.

If you have used up all your SU and you are finishing your programme within 12 months (in some cases 24), you can apply for an end-loan. You need to be study active and have used up all the SU you are entitled to for your specific study programme.

Whether you can receive an end-loan for a 12 month or a 24 month period, depends on whether you have received SU for the prescribed duration of the education + 12 months or if you have only received SU for the prescribed duration. 

If you have received 4 months of SU end-loan finishing your BSc degree, you can only have 8 months of end-loan left when finishing your MSc degree.

You can receive the end-loan starting from the month when you apply for it. If you have been awarded the SU end-loan, you will receive a loan plan. Your end-loan cannot be transferred until you have approved the loan plan and accept the terms for the loan.

The end-loan is paid out in monthly instalments, and you can adjust the loan plan you for every month and stop the payments if you want. The monthly payment rates for the end-loan is published each year at SU’s website. The interest rate is 4% annually. 

If you want to cancel your SU for a month or more, you need to do it before the 15th of the month before you wish to have it cancelled. If you do not want SU for all of October, you need to cancel it no later than September 15.

If you cancel your SU for more than 8 months, you will need to re-apply for SU.

You cancel your SU in MinSU.

You can obtain a public transportation pass known as "Ungdomskort" if you meet the conditions and you are a student on a higher education programme approved for SU.

The Ungdomskort provides a daily public transport discount from your residence to the educational institution. In addition, the Ungdomskort offers a number of other advantages. You can use the Ungdomskort to go by bus, train and metro. 

The specific conditions are:

• you follow a higher education programme approved for SU
• you do not receive a transport subsidy under other schemes
• the education or the education programme is designed as full-time education
• you are not studying in Denmark on a ST1 visa

Read about how to obtain a Youth card / Ungdomskort here