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🇳🇴 48 institutions · 1,057 scored programmes

What it actually takes to get into a Norwegian degree.

Norway scores applicants on opptakspoeng, and publishes the result per programme. The median across the country is about 49; the hardest degrees run into the 60s. 312,695 students study here, 8% of them from abroad.

Students

313k

autumn semester, the standard Norwegian count date.

From abroad

8%

23,989 international students across the sector.

Scored programmes

1,057

with a comparable average admission score.

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Fees

Norway introduced fees for non-EEA students in 2023, but each institution sets its own and DBH doesn't publish them.

How to read the admission score

Opptakspoeng combines your upper-secondary grades with age and subject bonuses. The figure shown is the average across everyone who applied to that programme, not a published cut-off, so a competitive programme sits well above the national median of roughly 49.

We derive it. DBH's table is titled “average admission points” but returns the sum across applicants, so it has to be divided by the applicant count. We publish it only where at least 20 people applied and the result falls inside the ordinary scale — above about 70 the programme is admitting on something else entirely, such as a language or portfolio test.

Highest admission scores

Average opptakspoeng of applicants, 2024.

ProgrammeLevelApplicantsAvg points
Master of Science in Economics and Business AdministrationMaster, 2-årig12968.3
Bachelor i film- og TV-produksjonBachelor, 3-årig3867.8
Gjestestudenter på mastergradsnivåHøyere nivå (øvrige)2066.9
MedisinstudietProfesjonsstudium2,06362.6
Industriell økonomi og teknologiledelse - masterMaster, 5-årig1,58262.4
Kybernetikk og robotikk - master (5-årig)Master, 5-årig1,12961.5
Datateknologi - master (5-årig)Master, 5-årig1,23061.4
Nanoteknologi - masterMaster, 5-årig63461.4

Every institution

Private høyskoler (21)

Høyskolen Kristiania14,594 students · median 3.2 pointsOslo Nye Høyskole3,553 studentsNLA Høgskolen3,004 students · median 47.3 pointsLovisenberg diakonale høgskole1,249 students · median 51.3 pointsDronning Mauds Minne Høgskole969 students · median 45.4 pointsNoroff743 studentsAnsgar høyskole379 students · median 47.7 pointsFjellhaug Internasjonale Høgskole355 students · median 50.5 pointsSteinerhøyskolen255 studentsHøyskolen for ledelse og teologi254 studentsHøyskolen for yrkesfag229 studentsNorsk Gestaltinstitutt228 studentsBergen Arkitekthøgskole178 studentsNSKI Høyskole153 studentsLillehammer Institute of Music Production Industries64 studentsNorges Høyskole for Helsefag50 students · median 44.6 pointsBarratt Due Musikkinstitutt45 studentsNorsk barnebokinstitutt43 studentsHøgskulen for grøn utvikling30 studentsSkrivekunstakademiet12 studentsHøyskolen for dansekunst9 students

Universiteter (10)

Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet44,148 students · median 52.6 pointsUniversitetet i Oslo26,994 students · median 53.9 pointsOsloMet – storbyuniversitetet23,344 students · median 50.3 pointsUniversitetet i Bergen20,496 students · median 52.7 pointsUniversitetet i Sørøst-Norge17,802 students · median 47 pointsUniversitetet i Tromsø - Norges arktiske universitet16,772 students · median 50.5 pointsUniversitetet i Agder14,336 students · median 48 pointsUniversitetet i Stavanger13,597 students · median 47.6 pointsNord universitet11,377 students · median 48 pointsNorges miljø- og biovitenskapelige universitet8,547 students · median 53.5 points

Statlige høyskoler (8)

Høgskulen på Vestlandet17,202 students · median 47.9 pointsHøgskolen i Innlandet14,748 students · median 47.5 pointsHøgskolen i Østfold7,120 students · median 45.3 pointsHøgskulen i Volda4,445 students · median 48 pointsPolitihøgskolen3,123 students · median 52.7 pointsForsvarets høgskole797 studentsKriminalomsorgens høgskole og utdanningssenter KRUS410 students · median 32.3 pointsSamisk høgskole226 students

Statlige vitenskapelige høyskoler (6)

Norges handelshøyskole4,323 students · median 54.8 pointsHøgskolen i Molde, vitenskapelig høgskole i logistikk3,702 students · median 45.6 pointsNorges idrettshøgskole2,226 students · median 49.4 pointsArkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo888 studentsNorges musikkhøgskole851 studentsKunsthøgskolen i Oslo611 students

Private vitenskapelige høyskoler (3)

Handelshøyskolen BI21,357 students · median 38.5 pointsVID vitenskapelige høgskole5,843 students · median 43.6 pointsMF vitenskapelig høyskole1,014 students · median 46.9 points

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Contains data under the Norwegian licence for Open Government data (NLOD) distributed by HK-dir — Database for statistikk om høgre utdanning (DBH).