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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.
The Norway-America Association (Norwegian: Norge-Amerika Foreningen, abbreviated to NORAM) is a Norwegian non-profit organization established in 1919. It works for increased cooperation between the United States and Norway within higher education. It gives about 0.5 million US dollars per year divided into seventy scholarships.
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".
The 23 university colleges in Norway are responsible for regional education of primarily bachelor level education within the fields of nursing, teaching, business management, engineering and information technology, though most colleges also offer a number of other academic degrees as well.
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.
The original Finnmark University College was, and the recent incarnation of the University of Tromso - Norway's Arctic University is, affiliated with UArctic and offers an online Bachelor of Northern Studies (BNS) which is delivered in the English language and which is based upon the UArctic Bachelor of Circumpolar Studies programme. The BNS ...
Akureyri (Iceland) Ilisagvik, Alaska (USA) Longyearbyen, Svalbard (Norway) Montreal, Quebec (Canada) Rovaniemi, Lapland (Finland) Nuuk, Greenland (Denmark) Umeå, Western Bothnia (Sweden) There are 143 member institutions of UArctic , most of which are educational institutions and most of which are from the Arctic states (listed below).
Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute; Arctic and Northern Studies at University of Alaska Fairbanks; Arctic Centre, University of Lapland; The Arctic Institute | Center for Circumpolar Security Studies; Arctic Institute of North America; Arctic Research Consortium of the United States; Arctic Research Foundation; Arctic Research Office