The Department of Economics and Resource Management (IØR) is known to be one of the leading university departments in Europe specializing in areas mixing economics and agriculture. IØR has a significant portfolio of projects financed by EU, the Nordic Council, the Research Council of Norway various Norwegian government ministries and private companies.
This program aims to integrate advanced courses in economic theory and methodology with applied policy analysis, focusing on important development issues.
The Collaborative MSc program in Development and Natural Resource Economics has been selected as one of 17 programs that receive support from the Norad Programme for Master Studies in the 2007-2010 period.