Master's degree reform

The work on the master’s degree reform at the Faculty of Social Sciences

This page supplements SDU's page on the work with the master’s degree reform and provides information about the planned process at the Faculty of Social Sciences.

On May 23, SDU submitted the overall institutional plan to the Ministry of Higher Education and Science. You can read more about the latest updates regarding the Master's degree reform at SDUnet

Read the hearing document here, and the hearing responses received, regarding the faculty's decision on the restructuring. The hearing material can be accessed here.

The Executive Board has distributed the limited 120 ECTS places among the faculties. Read more about the background for the distribution as well as the principles and process for the development of SDU's education portfolio here.

There will be more about the work with capacity on the faculty's courses.

Distribution of main academic areas at SDU and SAMF respectively

In connection with the publication of the Graduate Committee's interim report with proposals for the restructuring of the Master's degree programmes, SDU Analytics has developed a web report with an overview of how the main academic areas are distributed at SDU and Ministry of Higher Education, respectively.

For historical reasons, there is not complete agreement between how the main academic areas are distributed at SDU and the Ministry of Higher Education and Science (UFM). This is important in relation to the proportion of Master's degree programmes that need to be reorganised within each main academic area, as the programmes are not necessarily placed in the same way at SDU and at UFM, respectively. A Master's degree programme that at SDU, for example, is located in the main field of study in the humanities, may thus be located within another main field of study at UFM.

It has been decided that the conversion rate to which the individual programme is subject in relation to the Ministry of Higher Education's definition of main academic areas will be "included", even if the programme is placed under another main field of study at SDU. Link to web report from SDU Analytics (Please note that the "main area (hovedområde) " in the web report is defined as "SDU faculty" and "UFM intermediate area", respectively.)

Further information

If you have any questions, input or comments about the work with the Master's degree reform at the Faculty of Social Sciences, please write to kandidatreform@sam.sdu.dk

Candidate Committee's final report

On Wednesday 20 November 2024, the Candidate Committee's final report was published. The report can be read here

Candidate Committee's final report (in danish)

Supplementary agreement

In December 2024, the parties behind the university reform agreement reached a consensus on new opportunities for more flexible Master’s programmes for professionals. This aims to help realize the goal of a closer connection between universities and the business sector.

Link to Supplementary Agreement (in danish)