Higher Commercial Examination Programme

The Higher Commercial Examination Programme (in Danish: Højere Handelseksamen, abbreviated HHX) is a business-oriented education in Denmark. The 3-year HHX programme requires a completed 9-year folkeskole (primary education) and offers general subjects in addition to business administration, economics, and foreign language. The HHX-programmes are offered at the business colleges, of which there are approximately 50 distributed all over the country.

The 3-year HHX-programme builds on to the 10th year of the Folkeskole or similar.

All pupils, who have received the relevant teaching and passed the prescribed examinations, can continue in an upper secondary programme more or less of their own choice.

Access is however not totally free to the general upper secondary programmes. If a school finds that the pupil and his or her parents do not take the guidance provided serious, and that there is a risk that the pupil cannot meet the requirements of the general upper secondary programmes, the pupil may be recommended to sit for an admission test to one of the general upper secondary programmes.

The HHX-programme described here is a 3-year programme, of which the introductory part comprises the aims of the combined first and second school periods which the college offers as part of the vocational education and training programme in the field of commerce, clerical trades and public administration.

The 3-year programme caters for the 16- to 19-year-olds and is divided into years with a certain number of obligatory and optional subjects of both a general and a vocational nature.

The 3-year programme comprises a certain number of obligatory upper secondary subjects such as Danish, English, 2nd foreign language and business economics, as well as a number of specialised subjects such as sales, information technology, international economics, contemporary studies, commercial law, vocational education subjects, including a project as well as a wide range of optional subjects such as mathematics, continuation language, beginner language, cultural understanding, design, media knowledge, psychology, mathematics, environmental studies, EU- and international economic co-operation, business economics, sales, etc.

It is the aim of the course to provide general and commercial vocational upper secondary education which qualify the students for admission to higher education upon completion of the course and which contributes to the young persons' personal development and to their understanding of society and its development with special emphasis on the conditions of trade and industry.

The programmes furthermore provides a partial basis for occupational employment and qualifies for a reduction of the period of schooling in a vocational education and training programme in the same field according to the provisions applying to this effect.

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