The University of Oslo is the oldest school in Norway. It has 27,000 students, 7,000 employees, and 3,000 Ph.D. students studying in eight faculties.
The university houses the Viking Ship Museum and a library with 3.6 million holdings, and is also home to eight National Centres of Excellence, as well as Centres for Research-based Innovation and Environment-friendly Energy Research.
Oslo can pursue these numerous research projects with its substantial government funding that helps produce its NOK652.8 million endowment.
But Oslo is more than just a Norwegian gem. It also offers over 800 courses in English, has received seven individual grants from European Union research projects, and has contributed to five Nobel Prize winners.
The school is particularly noteworthy for its strong connection to peace studies. Between 1947 and 1989, it hosted the ceremony for the Nobel Peace Prize and consequently is the only university to have hosted a Nobel Prize Ceremony.
Johan Galtung, the founder of the academic field of peace and conflict studies, founded the world’s first chair in that discipline here at Oslo; the famous explorer, humanitarian, and Nobel Peace Prize winner Fridtjof Nansen taught here as well.
The University of Oslo also awards the prestigious Abel Prize in mathematics annually.
