Admittance

To be eligible for admittance, you must have an excellent academic record with at least a five-year master-level degree in a relevant field, or equivalent educational qualifications. For applicants with a Norwegian background, an average mark of 2.5 or better (B with the new grades) from the master-level study is needed. The detailed rules governing the program (in Norwegian) is found here.

There is no tuition fee at Molde University College. However, you need to be able to support yourself financially. For Norwegians this means a scholarship from the College (which is advertised when available), a scholarship from the Research Council, or direct financing from a company. The Research Council  of Norway has special scholarships for citizens of some countries. In addition, non-Norwegians may of course have support from their own countries. To be given a student visa by the immigration authorities, you need available in a bank acoount NOK 80000 in the beginning of each academic year. As a student you may need less than that for living, but the visa requirement is not negotiable. Of course, if some money is left over from the first year, it can be used again to guarantee the finances for the second year, etc. This requirement is automatically satisfied if you are financed by the college or the research council. The college will normally add a fourth year for students financed by the Research Council.

With financing in order, the first thing you should do is to determine the research topic you would like to pursue in your work on your thesis. Then you must locate a member of the academic staff of Molde University College who is interested in your topic, qualified as a supervisor and willing to help you. You can do that in several ways. One possibility is to contact the leader of the Doctoral Committee, who will try to help you. If you already know whom you would like as a supervisor, you should get in touch with that person. When you have found a potential supervisor, you and the supervisor should write an application, with emphasis on the research topic and methodology, plus a package of courses and a plan for a stay abroad. This is the major part of your application for admittance. The Doctoral Committee at Molde University College will make the final decision about accepting you as a doctoral student. If you are employed at the college as "stipendiat", much of this would have had to be done in that process.

Details about the application process can be found here. This file also contains rules about how we proceed if we have more applicants than we can handle.