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These universities are known as the "old universities". Norway also has a number of university colleges, that are traditionally focused on vocational programs such as nursing or teacher education. Several of these colleges have received university status in recent years, and are referred to as "new universities," in contrast to the "old ...
University college is the most widely used official English translation in Sweden, Norway and Denmark, although some such institutions use the term university in English instead (for instance Södertörn University).
The public universities of Norway are: Nord University (Several campuses in North Trøndelag and Nordland counties) Norwegian University of Life Sciences (Ås) Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Trondheim, Ålesund and Gjøvik) Oslo Metropolitan University (Oslo) (official site) University of Agder (Kristiansand, Grimstad and Arendal)
The National Documentation Project of Norway; Nesna University College; Nord University; Nord-Trøndelag University College; Nordic Institute of Stage and Studio; Noroff Education; Norwegian Academy of Music; Norwegian Cyber Engineering School; Norwegian Police University College; Norwegian School of Information Technology; Norwegian School of ...
The NTNU board decided on 28 January 2015 to merge NTNU with the University Colleges of Sør-Trøndelag, Ålesund and Gjøvik to form a new university that would retain the university's current name, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. The merger, which went into effect in January 2016, made NTNU Norway's largest single university.
The University of Oslo (Norwegian: Universitetet i Oslo; Latin: Universitas Osloensis) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the oldest university in Norway and consistently considered the country's leading university, one of the highest ranked universities in the Nordic countries and one of world's hundred highest ...
From 2017, the English name is Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (abbreviated according to the Norwegian name: HVL). [2] [3] The founding Rector (President) was professor Berit Rokne, and in 2021 Gunnar Yttri, a historian, was appointed the institution’s Rector for the period 2021-2024. [4]
It is one of ten universities in Norway. The University of Tromsø is the largest research and educational institution in Northern Norway and the sixth-largest university in Norway. [4] The university's location makes it a natural venue for the development of studies of the region's natural environment, culture, and society.