Østfold University College

Last updated

Østfold University College
Høgskolen i Østfold
Type University College
Established1994 (1955, 1963, 1965 and 1980)
Rector Hans Blom
Students7,000
Location
Halden and Fredrikstad
,
NO
Campus Urban
Website www.hiof.no
HiO emblem.png

Østfold University College (Norwegian : Høgskolen i Østfold, HiØ) is a university college in Østfold county, Norway. [1] It has campuses in Fredrikstad and Halden, and has around 7000 students (as of 2017) and 550 employees (as of 2017). The university college is one of the public university colleges in Norway, and is a result of five public colleges in Halden, Sarpsborg and Fredrikstad which were joined together as a part of the University College Reform (Norwegian : Høgskolereformen ) of 1994.

Contents

The school offers over 60 fields of study, ranging from Associate degrees, Bachelor's degrees, Master's degrees, and some Doctorates.

Faculties

Østfold University College incorporates the following faculties:

Campus

The new addition to the Fredrikstad Campus, "Smia" is home to the Faculty of Engineering Fmvill383.jpg
The new addition to the Fredrikstad Campus, "Smia" is home to the Faculty of Engineering

HiØ is split between two campuses, one located in Halden, for business, social sciences, foreign language, computer science and education. The other in Fredrikstad, for engineering, health and social studies, and theatre.

The Halden Campus is home to the Faculty of Business, Faculty of Computer Science and the Faculty of Social Sciences and Foreign Languages Hogskolesenteretihalden.jpg
The Halden Campus is home to the Faculty of Business, Faculty of Computer Science and the Faculty of Social Sciences and Foreign Languages

The Halden campus, designed by architect firm Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter, was opened in 2006. The building was nominated by the Norwegian Association of Architects for the Mies van der Rohe-prize. [3]

The Fredrikstad campus is home to approximately 1,600 students and 150 staff. Its newest addition, called "Smia" ("the forge"), was opened for the school's Faculty of Engineering in 2010.

Academics

Østfold University College was ranked 5th in Norway, and 900th in the World in the 2010 Webometrics Ranking of World Universities. [4] The European Commission awarded the Diploma Supplement Label from 2009 to 2013 to Østfold University College (Høgskolen i Østfold). [5] Of the 26 Norwegian higher education institutions that applied, Østfold University College was one of five that received this distinction of quality. [6]

Theatre

Norwegian Theatre Academy offers undergraduate courses in theatre. Training is based on a combination of conceptual visual art and the techniques and methods of classical and contemporary theatre. Particular focus is placed on physical theatre, devised performance, and multi-disciplinary work.[ citation needed ]

Industrial Design Engineering

The Faculty of Engineering offers a 3-year Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, that combines the science of engineering with the applied art of design to educate industrial design engineers. Students in this program go on to work as product, interface and transportation designers. The combined degree allows students to identify themselves as both engineers and designers.

NTNU in Trondheim offers a similar 5-year Master's Degree that students can transfer to after graduation and get a 2-year Master's Degree in Industrial Design Engineering. Students will then be able to use the title sivilingeniør, "Master of Engineering".

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Norwegian University of Science and Technology</span> Public university in Trondheim, Norway

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology is a public research university in Norway and the largest in terms of enrollment. The university's headquarters is located in Trondheim, with regional campuses in Gjøvik and Ålesund.

Oslo University College was the largest state university college in Norway from 1994 to 2011, with more than 18,000 students and approximately 1800 employees. Oslo University College merged with Akershus University College to form Oslo and Akershus University College in 2011, and this institution became Oslo Metropolitan University in 2018.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Norwegian University of Life Sciences</span> University

The Norwegian University of Life Sciences is a public university located in Ås, Norway. It is located at Ås in Akershus and has around 7700 students.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">University of Stavanger</span> University in Stavanger, Norway

The University of Stavanger is a public research university located in Stavanger, Norway. It was established in 2005 when the Stavanger University College received university status.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Aalesund University College</span>

Aalesund University College was a medium-sized institution of higher education in Norway with 2249 students and 224 employees.

The Grieg Academy is a disputed historical term used to refer to the higher education music programs in Bergen, Norway, as well as various collaborations across music institutions in Bergen. However, since 2016, due to mergers between several Norwegian institutions, the structure of Grieg Academy has changed and its remaining components are expected to be a doctoral research school and various research groups. Specifically, this is due to a merger between the University of Bergen’s Faculty of Humanities with the Bergen Academy of Art and Design, as well as a nearly simultaneous merger between Bergen University College and two other university colleges in western Norway: Stord/Haugesund University College and Sogn og Fjordane University College to become, in January 2017, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL) The music programs across HVL briefly became the largest music department in western Norway in terms of the number of full time teachers, but this has rapidly changed due to an unofficial policy of not replacing retiring teachers.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">ICESI University</span> Private university in Cali, Colombia

Icesi University is a private university located in Cali, Colombia. The campus is located in the area of Pance, south of the city. Founded in 1979 by a group of businessmen in the region. Icesi University with a campus of 141,334 square meters, offers undergraduate programs, specializations, masters and doctorates.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Western Norway University of Applied Sciences</span> Norwegian public institution of higher learning

Western Norway University of Applied Sciences or HVL is a Norwegian public institution of higher education, established in January 2017 through the merging of formerly independent colleges across five campuses: Bergen, Førde, Haugesund, Sogndal and Stord. Its oldest programs - teacher education in Stord - can be traced to 1839. The total number of students at HVL is about 16000, and there are 1800 academic and administrative staff. Its main campus is in the Kronstad neighborhood of Bergen, Norway.

Telemark University College was, until its merger, the fourth largest university college in Norway. The University College had about 7000 students, split between four different locations in Bø, Notodden, Porsgrunn, Rauland and Drammen.

Sør-Trøndelag University College or HiST was a Norwegian university college located in Trondheim. The school offered higher education within nursing, teaching, economics, food science, engineering and information technology. The college had six campuses throughout the city and was created in 1994 as a merger between a number of independent colleges in the city. In January 2016, HiST merged with Norwegian University of Science and Technology and Aalesund University College and Gjøvik University College.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nord-Trøndelag University College</span>

Nord-Trøndelag University College or HiNT was a Norwegian university college located throughout the county of Nord-Trøndelag. HiNT had about 5,500 students and 440 employees in 2013. In January 2016, the university was merged with Nesna University College and the University of Nordland, becoming Nord University.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Molde University College</span>

Molde University College - Specialized University in Logistics is a Norwegian specialized university. It is located in the town of Molde in Molde Municipality, Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The university offers higher education in business administration, logistics, information technology, and health sciences.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Higher education in Norway</span> Overview of the higher education system of Norway

Higher education in Norway is offered by a range of ten universities, nine specialised universities, 24 university colleges as well as a range of private university colleges. The national higher education system is in accordance with the Bologna process, with bachelor's degrees, master's degrees and doctoral degrees. Acceptance is offered after finishing upper secondary school and meeting general university admissions certification.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Buskerud University College</span>

Buskerud University College was a university college established 1 August 1994 and situated in Viken county, Norway. It merged with Vestfold University College on 1 January 2014 to form Buskerud and Vestfold University College. This new school merged again on 1 January 2016 with Telemark University College into University College of Southeast Norway.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gjøvik University College</span>

Gjøvik University College is a university college in Norway. In January 2016, Gjøvik University College joined with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. HiG is now referred to as the NTNU campus in Gjøvik.

Vestfold University College was a university college in the county of Vestfold, Norway. The university college's campuses were formerly located in Borre and Eik. From 2010 the whole university college was co-located at Campus Bakkenteigen in Horten. It was established 1 August 1994 by the merger of three previous university colleges, and has approximately 4,000 students and 450 employees. The university college has four faculties: Humanities and Education, Health Sciences, Business and Social Sciences, and Technology and Maritime Sciences. The college merged with Buskerud University College on 1 January 2014 to create Buskerud and Vestfold University College.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kristin Jarmund</span> Norwegian architect

.

Oslo and Akershus University College was the largest state university college in Norway from its establishment in 2011 until 2018, when it was transformed into Oslo Metropolitan University, the youngest of Norway's new universities.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter</span> Architecture and design firm in Norway

Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter (RRA) is a Norwegian architecture, landscape architecture, and design firm based in Oslo.

The Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences is a state university college in Innlandet, Norway, established in 2017 from the merger of the Hedmark University College and Lillehammer University College. It has six campuses, of which Lillehammer is the biggest, located at the television and radio center built for the 1994 Winter Olympic Games.

References

  1. ↑ Ministers, N.C. (2015). Joint Degrees and the Nordic Countries: Nordic Master Programme – Legal and administrative obstacles. TemaNord. Nordic Council of Ministers. p. 138. ISBN   978-92-893-4066-3 . Retrieved 3 October 2018.
  2. ↑ "Faculty of Computer Sciences". Archived from the original on 13 April 2015. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
  3. ↑ "Nominert til arkitektpris". Archived from the original on 17 November 2010. Retrieved 23 August 2010.
  4. ↑ "Rank of Universities of Norway". Archived from the original on 7 August 2010. Retrieved 23 August 2010.
  5. ↑ "Internasjonalt kvalitetsstempel til HiØ". Archived from the original on 27 September 2011.
  6. ↑ "European universities awarded for excellence in supporting mobile students". Archived from the original on 22 June 2009.

59°07′46″N11°21′11″E / 59.12944°N 11.35306°E / 59.12944; 11.35306

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.