The Denmark Study & Research Visa is for study, research or an internship in Denmark. Short stays of up to 90 days use a Schengen Type C visa; longer study requires a national long-stay visa or residence permit.
Beyond the standard Schengen documents, the embassy expects a certificate of admission or registration at an educational establishment in Denmark, or a cover letter from the inviting institution.
Lifeset Overseas confirms whether your stay needs a short-stay visa or a residence permit and builds the file so your study or research purpose is clearly evidenced.
Denmark: short study, sports and cultural visit visa from India
Courses, exchange visits, sports events and cultural programmes of up to 90 days use the Schengen short-stay visa under the Embassy of Denmark's "Study/Sports/Cultural" checklist. Degree study longer than 90 days is a residence permit for study through the Danish Agency for International Recruitment and Integration (SIRI), applied for online after admission. As with every Danish application, missing or incorrect documentation must be supplied "within 3 days", after which the case is decided on the file as it stands.
The Embassy's checklist
- Application form completed on https://applyvisa.um.dk/, printed and signed, with the fee receipt from the same portal.
- One colour photograph under six months old, 35 × 45 mm, white background.
- Passport valid at least three months beyond the intended stay with two blank pages; copies of previous Schengen visas and stamps.
- A covering letter from your Indian organisation or school confirming your name, the course or event, the dates and who covers the costs, with the Danish institution's admission or invitation.
- Travel medical insurance for all Schengen countries of at least EUR 30,000, transport bookings and accommodation for the whole stay, and financial evidence as the Embassy lists.
Official sources
- New to Denmark, Study: https://www.nyidanmark.dk/en-GB/You-want-to-apply/Study
- Danish visa application portal: https://applyvisa.um.dk/
- VFS Global India, Denmark: https://visa.vfsglobal.com/ind/en/dnk
Checked against the Embassy of Denmark's study, sports and cultural checklist held in our Knowledge Base on 30 September 2026. Fees and rules change; the official page always prevails.
Verified figures for Denmark
What a year in Denmark costs — and what you must prove
- Public-university tuition, non-EU student, per year
- €6,000 – €16,000
- Funds the visa authority asks you to show
- €11,920 a year
English-taught courses: widely available. IELTS Academic 6.5 overall with at least 6 in each subscore, or TOEFL — ask us for the current requirement.
Read on the official pages below on 27 Aug 2026. Figures change every academic year — check them before you pay anything.
Where Denmark stands among the 29 Schengen study countries
Computed from verified figures
On the lowest published public-university fee for non-EU students, Denmark sits 21st of 26 Schengen countries (€6,000 a year at the floor, up to €16,000). The living-cost proof the residence permit asks for works out to about €993 a month, which ranks 18th-lowest of the 23 countries that publish a monthly or yearly figure. English-taught programmes are widely available — Denmark is one of 18 Schengen countries where that is true, so the language of instruction is not the filter it is elsewhere.
Closest on tuition: Sweden and Finland. Compare all 29 side by side on Study in Europe.

