Veterinary exchange students

Only exchange students from the veterinary medicine programme’s partner universities can apply for veterinary courses at the University of Copenhagen.
Veterinary exchange students on their last year of the DVM-programme can participate in the following specialisation courses:
Each course lasts 1 semester and awards the students with 26.5 ECTS.
You must always commence the course at study start (1 September or 1 February).
Course codes for semester programmes
Course | Course code |
Advanced Companion Animal Track | SVEK13013U |
Equine Clinic Track | SVEK13012U |
One Health | SVEK13112U |
Biomedicine | SVEK13010U |
You can choose to participate in the following two courses for 12 weeks only:
You must always commence the course at study start (1 September or 1 February).
Course codes for 12-week programmes
These course codes cannot be found in our course catalogue, they are only used in our exchange system Mobility Online.
Course | Course code (Mobility Online) |
Advanced Companion Animal Track | SISA30062A |
Equine Clinic Track | SISA30062B |
In July and August we offer clinical training at the
- Summer Clinic - Companion Animals
- Summer Clinic - Large Animals
You must participate in clinical training for a period of minimum 2 weeks and maximum 8 weeks. It is possible to do a combination of clinical training at both hospitals. You will be awarded with 1.5 ECTS per week in the clinic.
If you are a student from one of our Erasmus+ partner universities, you must be able to participate in 8 weeks of clinical training.
Students from our overseas and Nordic partner universities can participate in a shorter period of time. Nordic students must be nominated as Nordplus students.
Summer clinics are only for exchange students nominated by our partner universities.
Course codes for summer clinic
ECTS | Weeks | Companion Animals | Large Animals |
3 | 2 | SVEK13024U | SVEK13033U |
4.5 | 3 | SVEK13025U | SVEK13034U |
6 | 4 | SVEK13026U | SVEK13035U |
7.5 | 5 | SVEK13027U | SVEK13036U |
9 | 6 | SVEK13028U | SVEK13037U |
10.5 | 7 | SVEK13029U | SVEK13038U |
12 | 8 | SVEK13030U | SVEK13039U |