The University of Oslo (Norwegian: Universitetet i Oslo), formerly The Royal Frederick University (Norwegian: Det Kongelige Frederiks Universitet), is the oldest and largest university in Norway, located in the Norwegian capital of Oslo. The university is recognized as one of Northern Europe's most prestigious universities. The Academic Ranking of World Universities has ranked it the 67th best university in the world.
The university has approximately 27,700 students and employs around 6,000 people. Its faculties include (Lutheran) Theology (Norway's state religion since 1536), Law, Medicine, Humanities, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Dentistry, and Education. The university's original neoclassical campus is located in the centre of Oslo; it is currently occupied by the Faculty of Law. Most of the university's other faculties are located at the newer Blindern campus in the suburban West End. The Faculty of Medicine is split between several university hospitals in the Oslo area.
The university was founded in 1811 and was modelled after the University of Copenhagen and the recently established University of Berlin. It was originally named for King Frederick VI of Denmark and Norway, and received its current name in 1939. The university is informally known as Universitetet ("the university"), having been the only university in Norway until 1946.
The University of Oslo is home to five Nobel Prize winners. The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in the university's Atrium from 1947 to 1989. Since 2003, the Abel Prize is awarded in the Atrium.
Faculties and units
The
university's old campus, strongly influenced by Prussian architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel's neoclassical style, is located in the centre of Oslo near
the National Theatre, the Royal Palace and the Parliament. The old campus was then occupied by the Faculty
of Law
and most of the other faculties have been transferred to the Blindern campus in the suburban West End, erected in the 1930s. The
Faculty of Medicine is split between several university hospitals in the Oslo
area
Theology
The Faculty of Theology conducts research and teaching within theology, Christian studies, inter-religious studies and diaconal studies.Law
- Centre for European Law
- Department of Criminology and the Sociology of Law
- Department of Private Law
- Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law (NRCCL)
- Department of Public and International Law
- Norwegian Centre for Human Rights
- Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law
Medicine
- Institute of Health and Society
- Institute of Basic Medical Sciences
- Institute of Clinical Medicine
- Institute of Forensic Medicine
- Faculty Division Oslo University Hospital
- Centre for Molecular Biology and Neuroscience
- Centre for Immune Regulation
- Centre for Cancer Biomedicine
Humanities
- Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History
- Department of Cultural Studies and Oriental Languages
- Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas
- Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages
- Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies
- Department of Media and Communication
- Department of Musicology
- Centre for Ibsen Studies
- Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature
- The Norwegian University Centre in St. Petersburg
- The Norwegian Institute in Rome
- Centre for French-Norwegian research cooperation within the social sciences and the humanities
- Center for Developemnt and Environmanet
Mathematics and Natural Sciences
- Department of Biology
- Department of Chemistry
- Department of Geosciences
- Department of Informatics
- Department of Mathematics
- Department of Molecular Biosciences
- Department of Physics
- Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics
- School of Pharmacy
- Centre for Entrepreneurship
- Centre for Material sciences and Nanotechnology (SMN)
- Centre for Physics of Geological Processes (PGP)
- Centre of Mathematics for Applications (CMA)
- Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES)
- Centre for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry (CTCC)
- Centre for Innovative Natural Gass Processes and Products (inGAP)
- Centre for Accelerator Based Research and Energy Physics (SAFE)
Dentistry
- Department of Oral Biology
- Institute of Clinical Dentistry
Social Sciences
- Department of Sociology and Human Geography
- Department of Political Science
- Department of Psychology
- Department of Social Anthropology
- Department of Economics
- Centre for technology, innovation and culture
- ARENA - Centre for European Studies
- Centre of Equality, Social Organization, and Performance (ESOP)
Education
- Department of Teacher Education and School Research
- Department of Special Needs Education
- Department for Educational Research
- InterMedia
Student life
Like all public institutions of higher education in Norway, the university does not charge tuition fees. However, a small fee of NOK 510 (roughly US$70) per term goes to the student welfare organisation Foundation for Student Life in Oslo, to subsidise kindergartens, health services, housing and cultural initiatives, the weekly newspaper Universitas and the radio station Radio Nova.In addition the students are charged a copy and paper fee of NOK 100 (roughly US$17) for full-time students and NOK 50 (roughly US$8.50) for part-time students. Lastly a voluntary sum of NOK 30 (roughly US$5) is donated to SAIH (Studentenes og Akademikernes Internasjonale Hjelpefond).
Rankings
In 2012, Shanghai Jiao
Tong University's Academic
Ranking of World Universities ranked UiO 67th worldwide and best in
Norway, while the Times Higher Education World University Rankings ranked UiO among the
201-225th best universities worldwide.
Also
in 2012, the QS World University
Rankings
ranked UiO 111th worldwide, while the Webometrics
Ranking of World Universities ranked UiO 73rd worldwide.
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