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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.
All scholarship applicants must be members of the Norway-America Association, which charges a fee of 200 NOK per year. [ 4 ] It was established as the Norway-America Fund in 1919 and was founded by the American Scandinavian Foundation and Nordmanns-Forbundet.
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".
In addition to annual professional conferences, the NDA is also involved in educating future dentists. Under the National Dental Association Foundation (NDAF), founded in 1976, the NDA has with cooperation from Colgate-Palmolive been active in promoting research and scholarships at Howard University Dental School and Meharry Medical College School of Dentistry. [1]
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).
The public university colleges in Norway consist of: Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, or Høgskolen på Vestlandet (official site) Norwegian Defence University College, or Forsvarets høgskole (official site) Norwegian Police University College, or Politihøgskolen (official site)
There are more than 150 members in the University of the Arctic. There are 45 members from Canada, 10 from Denmark, 1 from the Faroe Islands, 18 from Finland, 3 from Greenland, 10 from Iceland, 19 from Norway, 55 from Russia, 7 from Sweden, 26 from the United States and 60 from non-Arctic countries (Australia (1), Austria (1), Czech Republic (1), China (16), France (3), Germany (1), India (5 ...
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.