FAQ for New Graduates
If you’re about to finish your studies and want to get everything sorted with your unemployment insurance fund (a-kasse), you’ll find the answers you need right here.
When do I officially graduate, and how do I notify the unemployment insurance fund?
You’re officially a graduate when you receive your final grade. This could be at your oral exam where you defend your thesis, or when you receive the grade for your thesis or final project.
In some programmes, you can get preliminary approval for your thesis before you receive your final grade. You notify us by filling out the form ”Skift medlemsstatus fra studiemedlem til nyuddannet” (change membership status from student member to new graduate) no later than 14 days after your last exam or your last grade.
Read about the preliminary approval
Switch from student member to new graduate
Have you received the form I filled out, and is everything as it should be?
You can always check if we have received your form when logged in to Mit AKA and click on the ”Indsendte blanketter” (submitted forms) page.
If you can see the form on Mit AKA, we have received it and will contact you if we have any questions or need more information.
Go to the ”Indsendte blanketter” page on Mit AKA
What should I do about my student job when I graduate?
You have different options:
- You can continue your student job part-time if you are unemployed (ledig) after graduation. In that case, you can apply for supplementary unemployment benefits (supplerende dagpenge).
- However, if you consider quitting your student job, you must give notice and resign before you finish your studies.
Read about the different options when you have a student job in Guide for Graduates
I’m finishing my studies soon and planning to apply for unemployment benefits – but I’ve got a full-time job starting soon
You can apply for unemployment benefits from graduation and until you start your full-time job. In that case, you’ll need to contact us so we can include you in what’s known as ’Mindre Intensiv Indsats’ (less intensive effort).
Read what this means for you in the last 6 weeks of your unemployment benefit period
I have received a bill from you even though I am still a student. What should I do?
You must fill out the form ’forlængelse af gratis studiemedlemskab’ (extension of free student membership). Once you’ve done that, you can safely ignore the bill.
Go to the form ’forlængelse af gratis studiemedlemskab’
Go to the form ’forlængelse af betalende studiemedlemskab’
The reason why you received a bill is that we have not been notified that you have postponed the completion of your studies.
If you have completed your bachelor’s degree and are continuing your postgraduate studies, you should change your status to new graduate instead of renewing your student membership. When you state that you’re continuing your postgraduate studies on the form, we can extend your free student membership.
Switch status to newly graduated