Faculties

The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences does research in all traditional scientific disciplines. Using a prime natural setting to build international level expertise, the Faculty has chosen to concentrate particularly on the following fields: marine and climatic research, petroleum research, and informatics. The faculty has around 2700 students. Teaching is offered at undergraduate and graduate (M.Sc. and Ph.D.) levels.

Faculty of Law

A master’s degree in law requires fi ve years of full-time study. Each year of study is followed by examinations at the end of each course. In addition to a doctoral programme, the Faculty also offers a number of courses that are open to all university students, some of which are offered in English. The Faculty employs about 80 academic and administrative staff and around 2000 students are currently studying for their master’s degree in Law.

Faculty of Psychology

The Faculty offers a number of courses of study that lead to a wide range of academic and professional qualifi cations. These range from the two-semester introductory course in psychology, to the selective-entry programme of professional studies which leads to the degree of Cand.psychol. and which qualifies graduates to practise as psychologists in Norway . This course may be followed by a period of research training leading to a doctorate. The Faculty also offers a number of other specialist courses. More than 1,800 students are currently registered for courses at various levels in the Faculty.

Faculty of Medicine

The Faculty has about 1400 students including 212 PhDcandidates and offers professional studies in medicine (MD), master’s degrees in biomedicine, pharmacy, nutrition, and health sciences, and a research course for medical students. In its research, the Faculty covers a broad spectrum of clinical medicine, biomedicine and health sciences, and is also in the process of establishing research schools in fi ve of its strongest fields of research. The Faculty has a high level of competence in research and has established research groups in experimental cancer studies, neurosciences, cardiology and circulation, epidemiology and vitamins, molecular biology, translational biological and clinical research as well as global health issues.

Faculty of Dentistry

The Faculty, which currently employs 230 staff and teaches 355 students, educates dentists and dental nursing staff to first-degree level and provides specialist training for qualified dentists. The research interests of the Faculty range from basic to clinical research, involving master’s and doctoral students in the research programmes of the Faculty’s research groups. The master’s and doctoral programmes also offer organised training for researchers. The Faculty runs its own dental clinic in support of its teaching and research activities.

Faculty of Social Sciences

The Faculty offers training in administration and organisational sciences, film and television production, visual culture, information sciences, journalism, media studies, political economy, social economics, comparative politics, geography, sociology and social anthropology. The Faculty’s research activities cover a wide range of subjects, of which development research and poverty studies are two important fields. For some years, studies of international migration and ethnic relations have been areas of special interest.

Faculty of Arts

The Faculty concentrates on European languages and culture, and on aesthetic disciplines with a national or European orientation. Several subjects focus on the Middle East , while in Spanish, the orientation is clearly towards Latin America . The 11 institutes of the Faculty represent more than 20 different disciplines in culture and society, linguistics and aesthetics. The Faculty is strongly committed to research both in its individual disciplines and in the form of crossdisciplinary programmes and projects in cultural subjects and in information and communications technology in the arts.

Bergen Museum

In addition to the faculties, Bergen Museum is a major academic department of the University of Bergen The academic activities of Bergen Museum are organised in two multidisciplinary departments: the Natural History Collections and the Cultural History Collections. Its primary objectives are to perform research and to gather, document, maintain and provide information about the collections of the disciplines that form the Museum.

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