Nigeria- Requirements and documents

The requirement for general admission should be qualifications at the level of Norwegian secondary school. We have used NOKUT’s (Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education) list of qualifications for each country.

First we will list the general requirements for higher education in Norway:

For Nigeria, the requirements are:

• Senior School Certificate + 1 year university education OR
• West African Examinations Council School Certificate GCE O-level + 1 year university education OR
• West African Examinations Council Higher School Certificate GCE A-level with 3 A-levels

English proficiency:

In addition, there is a requirement for proficiency in English. The requirement is met by one on the following certificates with the subject English in the curriculum:

• Senior School Certificate (from 1988)
• West African Examinations Council General Certificate of Education O-level
• West African Examinations Council General Certificate of Education A-level
• West African Senior School Certificate (from 1999)

Proficiency in Norwegian:

Most undergraduate programmes are taught in Norwegian. If you plan to study a programme taught in Norwegian, proficiency in Norwegian is required.

• If you are already proficient in Norwegian, it is possible to prove this by taking the ‘Bergenstest’.
• If not, it is possible to do a one-year programme in ‘Norwegian Language and Civilization’ for foreign students. Read more about the programme here:

For studies taught in English, proficiency in Norwegian is not required. See this link for programmes taught in English:

Special requirements:

Some programmes have extra requirements, in addition to the general requirements:

• Engineering programmes require extra mathematics and physics
• Computer studies require extra mathematics
• General Teacher Education requires above average grades in Norwegian and Mathematics
• Subject Teacher: Education in the Arts requires specialisation in Arts subjects.

Applications will be assessed individually to see if the requirements are met

Applications for master degrees:

If you apply for a master’s degree, your previous education must be comparable to a relevant Norwegian bachelor degree.

Accreditation:

If you have university education, the institution (and programme) must be recognised as university education in your home country. Institutions or programmes without accreditation will not be recognised as higher education.

Documents:

• All transcripts from secondary education must be certified copies. This means that a notary public or a public office must certify the authenticity of the documents.
• All transcripts form higher education must be sent directly from the issuing institution. Documents that are not sent directly from the issuing institution will not be assessed.
• All documents must be both in their original language and translated into English or one of the following Nordic languages: Norwegian, Swedish or Danish.

See more detailed information about documents in the ‘Guidelines for application’