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StudieAkademiet

I built StudieAkademiet from scratch and ran it to an exit: a six-month school for the second way into university, sold in 2022.

01Admission

My students got in.

Kvote 2 is the second way into a Danish university: an admission test, an interview or an application instead of grades. Only the best in the pool get a place.

Law at the University of Copenhagen · kvote 2
02Messages

The messages I kept.

When the admission results came out, my students wrote to me.

Good morning Christian Just wanted to say, I FUCKING GOT IN!!!! I'm completely overwhelmed and I can't take it in. I owe it all to you, so thank you so much for all your help! I really hadn't expected it 🤩🤩🙏🏼

Hi Christian I got in, so everything is as it should be!!!! 🙌🏻👏🏻

Yeees!!!! Congratulations 🥳🤩💪🏼

Did you get in? 😄☀️

HELL YEAHHHH

COMPLETELY WRECKED AFTER TODAY

Hi Christian! I finally got access to check, and I bloody well got into Law at KU!! I have to admit I've been pretty nervous the last few days, because I had nothing else to apply with except StudieAkademiet, but it was enough! Thank you so much for all your help. I'm so happy 😆

Yep

KU law it is 🔥

YEEESS!!! 😭

🤩🥳😁

Thank you so much!! It means everything to me. You really made a huge difference in my life, and it's something I will always remember!!

Thanks for the help, my friend

CONGRATULATIONS!

YOU'RE AMAZING!!!! It's SO deserved!!!

Hey my friend, I just want to say, THAT I GOT INTO THE PROGRAMME!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much for your help with all of it, it means everything to me. I'm looking forward to having a beer with you at the law bar. I really owe you a lot, thank you for everything you've done for all of us. Thank you for giving me the chance of another try, and thank you for always believing in us. It means the world. Now I'll do everything from here to fulfil my dream and work hard at university!! Lots of love from here ❤️

Student messages, translated from Danish
03Exams

Once in, they beat their year.

First-year law exams at the University of Copenhagen, 2020. My ambition, written into every teacher's onboarding: our students should be among the best of their year once admitted.

SubjectYearStudieAkademiet
Familie- og arveret8.110.5
Juridisk metode7.010.4
Strafferet6.18.6
IGR5.56.5
Forfatningsret6.37.4
Erstatning og kontrakt4.57.7
Average6.28.5
04The course

University subjects, before university.

Six months, one class a week, in the subjects they would meet at university, taught by practising lawyers, judges, doctors and psychologists.

hours of teaching, prep included
100+
hours of kvote 2 workshop
30
hours of admission test practice
15

Also in the course

  • Personal study and kvote 2 guidance
  • An academic foundation course in four modules
  • Interactive online compendia for every subject
  • The online learning platform, app.studieakademiet.dk
  • A final exam certificate and a diploma
  • Refreshments at every class
A study group seen from above: laptops, notebooks and a tablet on the table.
05The law line

Law, subject by subject.

The ten subjects of the law line, as we described them to students. On the 2021 law course in Aarhus, I taught four of them myself.

  1. Juridisk metodeWhat are law, rights and justice, and how does a lawyer think?
  2. StrafferetWhat is a crime against life and limb, and how is it punished?
  3. Erstatning & kontraktWhat do culpa and bonus pater familias mean, and is a spoken agreement as binding as a written one?
  4. Tings- og kreditorretWhat happens when a borrower goes bankrupt?
  5. Familie- og arveretCan you really inherit a fortune from your rich uncle in Montenegro?
  6. CivilprocesCan your neighbour take you to court if you won't cut down a tree that spoils his view?
  7. ProcesspilLaw in practice: a mock trial, as the defence, the prosecutor or the judge.
  8. ObligationsretWhat happens when an agreement is broken?
  9. ForvaltningsretWhat rights do you have as a citizen dealing with the public sector?
  10. MenneskerettighederFree speech, torture, privacy and the freedoms in the Danish constitution.
Christian at a whiteboard, drawing for a class how kvote 2 admission works, with JURA written in red.
06The platform

The classroom became an app.

When COVID started in 2020, meeting in person stopped being possible. We built the STAK app from scratch: a learning management system, a virtual classroom and a student portal in one, so the school could keep running.

STAKCourseLivestreamMessagesGroupsDocumentsDiploma
Christian teaching a class, with a bar chart of the lines on the screen behind him.
Christian and a student walking through a doorway, looking at a tablet.
The STAK app · 2020
07The company

Merged, then sold.

StudieAkademiet merged with Mimer, where clients met their career consultants inside the Mimer app. I became CEO of the merged company and ran it until the sale.

StudieAkademiet
students
500+
external teachers
50
Mimer
clients
2,000+
career consultants
40

One company, with me as CEO.

AAppendix

Our ad, in my voice.

A one-minute ad for the school, in Danish.

A full lecture hall at a StudieAkademiet event, seen from above.

Sold to Aspiri A/S in 2022.