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The University of Bergen (Norwegian: Universitetet i Bergen) is a public research university in Bergen, Norway. As of 2021, the university had over 4,000 employees and 19,000 students. [ 3 ] It was established by an act of parliament in 1946 consolidating several scientific institutions that dated as far back as 1825.
It remains the country's highest ranked university, and was Norway's only university until 1946. In the postwar era the University of Bergen, the University of Trondheim (now NTNU), and the University of Tromsø (now UiT The Arctic University of Norway) were founded. These universities are known as the "old universities".
The Michael Sars Centre is a research institute at the University of Bergen located in Bergen, Norway. It consists of an international community of scientists that use advanced technologies to study the unique molecular and cellular biology of marine organisms.
The six - year professional degree (cand.psychol) is as of 2024 only offered at the four traditional universities of Norway; The University of Oslo, NTNU, University of Bergen and The University of Tromsø. [11] Although attempts have been made to offer this degree at other universities, none have succeeded in doing so as of 2024.
The University Museum of Bergen was founded in 1825 by Wilhelm Frimann Koren Christie, at the time president of the Storting.Founded under the name University Museum of Bergen with the intent of building large collections in the fields of culture and natural history, it became the grounds for most of the academic activity in the city, a tradition which has prevailed since the museum became ...
The Norwegian Research Centre (NORCE) is a Norwegian government-owned [1] research institute that is majority-owned by the University of Bergen. It is one of the largest research organisations of Norway. [2] [3] NORCE was founded in 2017 through the merger of several university-owned research institutes and has around 900 employees.
The "Bergen School of Meteorology" was developed at the Geophysical Institute beginning in 1917, the Norwegian School of Economics was founded in 1936, and the University of Bergen in 1946. [109] The University of Bergen has 16,000 students and 3,000 staff, making it the third-largest educational institution in Norway. [110]
However, Norway's oldest music degree program, [6] and the institution that has for the longest been called "Griegakademiet" in Norwegian - and "Grieg Academy" in English - is the music education department incorporated into Bergen University College (HiB), which in 2017 becomes part of Western Norway University of Applied Sciences.