ECTS - the European Credit Transfer System - is the credit system used for all our study programmes. This facilitate mobility. As an exchange student participating in mobility programmes, you will receive full credit for all academic work successfully carried out at any of our partner institutions. The use of ECTS makes it easier to transfer these academic credits from one participating institution to another as long as there is a prior agreement between the institutions involved.

From the Berlin Communiqué of Ministers responsible for Higher Education, September 2003 (Bologna Process):

“Ministers stress the important role played by the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) in facilitating student mobility and international curriculum development. They note that ECTS is increasingly becoming a generalised basis for the national credit systems. They encourage further progress with the goal that the ECTS becomes not only a transfer but also an accumulation system, to be applied consistently as it develops within the emerging European Higher Education Area.”

The Norwegian Higher Education Institutions are implementing the Bologna process through “Kvalitetsreformen”, the Quality Reform. The Ministry of Education and Research has instructed all universities and colleges to emphasize internationalisation. Student and staff mobility is an important part of internationalisation and, therefore, we are encouraging teachers and students to take part in exchange programmes and bilateral agreements.

We have mobility agreements with more than twenty institutions in Europe, one in Canada and Australia and some in Africa and Asia , and the number increases steadily. An increasing number of our students choose to take parts of their education abroad. The courses in the host institutions are approved as an integrated part of their studies at Akershus University College.

As a consequence of the Quality Reform, all students who are accepted into degree programmes will also have the opportunity to take part of their studies abroad.

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