University of Bergen

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The University of Bergen (Universitetet i Bergen) is located in Bergen, Norway. Although founded as late as 1946, academic activity had taken place at Bergen Museum as far back as 1825. The university today caters for more than 16,000 students. It is one of six universities in Norway, the other five being the University of Oslo, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, the University of Tromsø, the University of Stavanger and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences.

Home students (European citizens) do not pay fees to the university. One pays the welfare organisation controlled by the students a fee to be granted the right to take an exam. This fee is about 800 NOK (approx. 120 USD) per year, and provides access to several services, including refunds of many medical expenses and less expensive accommodation.

Faculties

Faculty of Arts

Faculty of Dentistry

Faculty of Law

The Faculty of Law at the University of Bergen, seen from Magnus Lagabøtes plass.

The Faculty of Law was established as a separate faculty in 1980, with legal studies and research having been conducted at the university since 1969. The faculty is one of three Norwegian institutions which offer legal studies, the other two being the law faculties at the University of Oslo and the University of Tromsø. The faculty offers a five-year programme leading to a Master's degree in law and a three-year PhD programme, and currently has approximately 1900 students.

Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

• Department of Chemistry
• Department of Earth Science
• Department of Informatics
• Department of Mathematics
• Department of Molecular Biology
• Department of Physics and Technology
• Geophysical Institute

Faculty of Medicine

Faculty of Psychology

Faculty of Social Sciences

External links

• [Official site]
• At the Humanities IT centre (http://www.hit.uib.no/), is the Wittgenstein Archives of Bergen, http://www.hit.uib.no/wab/