🇳🇴 Universities in Norway
2 universities evaluated for international families.
Norway offers research-strong, historically tuition-free public universities in a high-income, high-quality-of-life country — though non-EU/EEA undergraduates and master's students began paying tuition from autumn 2023, ending the long free-for-all era (EU/EEA students and all PhD candidates remain free). The University of Oslo leads on breadth and research, while NTNU in Trondheim is the country's science-and-technology powerhouse with deep links to energy, maritime and tech industries. English-taught master's programmes are widespread, the academic culture is flat and seminar-driven, and post-study job-seeker permits aid retention. Trade-offs are very high living costs, the new non-EU fees, and long, dark winters; strengths are genuine in engineering, energy, marine science and the social sciences.
Post-Study Work
Student residence permit; 1-year job-seeker permit for non-EU graduates
Application System
Direct to each university / Samordna opptak; growing English-taught master's offer
Avg. International Fees
Historically free at public universities; non-EU/EEA tuition introduced from autumn 2023 (NOK ~130,000–500,000/year); EU/EEA and PhD still free
| University | Network | Employability | Teaching | Curriculum | Institutional | Student |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Norwegian University of Science and Technology | B | A | B | A | A | A |
| University of Oslo | B | B | B | A | A | A |