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The University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway (Norwegian: Universitetet i Tromsø – Norges arktiske universitet; Northern Sami: Romssa universitehta – Norgga árktalaš universitehta) is a state university in Norway and the world's northernmost university. [3]
Narvik University College merged with the University of Tromsø (Norwegian: UiT - Norges arktiske universitet or UiT) from 1 January 2016 and is now named UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, campus Narvik. It has approximately 2000 students and 220 employees.
It remains the country's highest ranked university, and was Norway's only university until 1946. In the postwar era the University of Bergen, the University of Trondheim (now NTNU), and the University of Tromsø (now UiT The Arctic University of Norway) were founded. These universities are known as the "old universities".
Bjørnar Julius Olsen (born 2 January 1958, Finnmark, Norway) is professor at UiT - The Arctic University of Norway.He is a Norwegian archaeologist who specializes in archaeological theory, material culture, museology, northern/Arctic archaeology, and contemporary archaeology.
YERUN welcomed new members in 2021: the university of Rijeka (Croatia); [5] the University of Cyprus (Cyprus); [6] UiT, the Arctic University of Norway (Norway) [7] and the University of Limerick (Ireland), [8] in 2022: the University of Klagenfurt (Austria), the University of Potsdam (Germany), the University of South-Eastern Norway (Norway ...
Tromsø University College students had access to a variety of support services, including healthcare, housing, and recreational activities. [1] In 2009, Tromsø University College was incorporated into the University of Tromsø, which is now known as UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
The member organizations contribute resources to the University of the Arctic. Some of the countries with participating organizations, including Canada, Finland and Norway, provide funds for the university and its different programs, though the Federal Government of Canada decided in 2011 to cut its funding by 75 percent.
Arctic-alpine Botanic Garden, the valley Tromsdalen and the mountain Tromsdalstind can be seen in the background. The Arctic–Alpine Botanic Garden (Arktisk alpin Botanisk hage) is the world's northernmost botanic garden. [citation needed] It is located in Tromsø, Norway, and is run by the Tromsø University Museum. It opened in 1994.