University of Oslo

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Established -1811
Type- Public university
Location -Oslo, Norway
Affiliations- EUA
Academic Ranking-67th best university in the world ( ranked by World Universities )
Website- www.uio.no


The University of Oslo is home to five Nobel Prize winners; amongst the Nobel Prizes, the Nobel Peace Prize, was in the past honored in the university's Aula.Nansen received 1922's Nobel Peace Prize within sight of the institution's Faculty of Law and is one of five Nobel laureates connected with the university. Today's student body, numbering 32,000, is supported by 4,600 staff. The Faculty of Humanities incorporates the Centre for Ibsen Studies.
The University of Oslo is the most ancient and leading university in Norway, located within the Norwegian capital of Oslo. The university was established in 1811 as The Royal Frederick University and then was modelled after the newly established University of Berlin. It was in the beginning named after King Frederick of Denmark and Norway and achieved its present name in 1939.
The university provides you with faculties of (Lutheran) Theology, Law, Medicine, Humanities, Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Dentistry, Social Sciences, and Education. The Faculty of Law is yet available at the original campus on Karl Johans gate, close to the National Theatre, the Royal Palace, and at the same time nearly all the various faculties are available at a new campus space known as Blindern, constructed from the 1930s. The Faculty of Medicine is allocate between several university hospitals in the Oslo location.

In the present day the university has about 27,000 students and employs about 4,600 people. It is indeed one among the top best universities of Scandinavia, and has uninterruptedly been getting positioned among the world's top 100 universities by the Academic Ranking of World Universities. in 2010 it was considered as the most excellent university in Norway, fourth most desirable in the Nordic countries, 24th highest quality university in Europe and 75th finest in the world.Until the founding of the University in 1811, the University of Copenhagen was the only university of Denmark-Norway. After the dissolution of the Dano-Norwegian union in 1814, complete academic connections between the countries have been managed. The University of Oslo was the single university in Norway until 1946, and for this reason informally commonly called just "The University". It was also informally identified as "The Royal Frederick's" (Det Kgl. Frederiks) for short.