Semester 1: Mid-August to Late December
Semester 2: Early January to Mid-June

The credit system now used at NTNU is based upon a workload of 60 credits for each academic year. This corresponds to European Credit Transfer System credits (ECTS).

Norwegian and English

Exchange students, and students pursuing an international master's or PhD programme generally do not need to comply with the university's Norwegian requirement (although all are welcomed to learn Norwegian), but they do have to be able to speak English.

For courses at the faculty of architecture students need to be studying at graduate level at their home institution in order to get admission.  Courses within clinical psychology are only open to NTNU students taking a degree within this field.

Please check with your faculty for its internal application deadlines. After you have been selected by and accepted your faculty’s internal offer, your faculty would give you the application instructions of the partner university. An online application to the partner university is needed.

If you're a visiting or exchange student, you will be informed about housing by the Office of International Relations. Exchange students from countries outside of the EU/EEA are guaranteed housing due to visa regulations. All students who are assigned NTNU student housing must pick up their keys at the Moholt student village reception, regardless of the location of the housing.

Please refer to the Other Links section for the relevant links to university accommodation.

Students who will be in Norway for more than three months need to apply for a student residence permit.

By the end of February 2011 everyone will be able to register an application for a student permit online. Many applicants can already register their applications online independent of opening hours, make an appointment to deliver relevant documents to the appropriate Police station or Norwegian Embassy/Consulate without having to wait in line, and pay the application fees online. The application is formally registered on the date you submit your passport with relevant supporting documentation. (You may nominate a person in Norway to register an application on your behalf. However, you are responsible for the application and have to hand in the supporting documentation yourself.)

Applicants who cannot yet register their applications online must submit an application form to the police or the nearest Norwegian Embassy or consulate. They must submit an application form to the Norwegian embassy or consulate in your home country or in the country where you have held a residence permit for the past six months. You will receive an answer to your application from the embassy or consulate or, if relevant, through a person you have authorised to apply on your behalf.

When you apply for a study permit, you must submit:

As a rule, it is sufficient that you enclose a copy of the documents with your application, but you must present the original documents when you hand in your application.

Both the national ID number and the temporary D-number are 11 digits; the national ID number starts with your birthdate and ends in 5 randomly generated digits. You’ll need this number to get paid, to open a bank account and to pay taxes. You can apply for either a D-number or a national identity number at the Trondheim tax office, but plan for it to take some time to get one. Depending upon the time of year and the tax office’s workload, you may have to wait several weeks or more. Because you can’t open a bank account without an ID number, newcomers should make certain they have enough cash to cover expenses until they obtain one of these all-important numbers.

Health insurance is Norway is universal, meaning that all residents are covered, but it isn’t actually free – it’s paid for by taxes.

Full-time students, whether Norwegian citizens or foreign students, are typically covered by the health insurance scheme, and are eligible for refunds for some expenses that regular employees are not. SiT, the student association in Trondheim, also has specific information about how the health system works for NTNU students.

Once you receive a national identity number, and are registered in the National Population Register (Folkeregister) as a resident of a specific municipality, you are assigned a regular doctor by the local NAV office.

If your health expenses exceed the annual capped amount, you can apply for a “Frikort” or free card, which means that all necessary additional health-related expenses will be completely covered by the health system. There’s more information available about the system as a whole from the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration.

Please refer to the Other Links Section for the relevant links to the estimated costs of living.

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