Ph.D.

Overview

The University of Oslo offers a wide range of Ph.D. programmes. A Ph.D. degree is scheduled to take three years of full-time studies. It is made up of a training component equivalent to no less than 30 credits (1 semester of full-time study) and a dissertation. The dissertation is an independent piece of scientific work that meets international standards within its subject area. If the dissertation is approved, it has to be defended at a public disputation. For more information, see About the Ph.D. degree.

Disputations (In English and Norwegian)

Doctoral Programmes at the Faculties

The faculties evaluate the candidates for admission to doctoral study, so applications to a Ph.D.-programme should be submitted to the relevant faculty. All the faculties offer Ph.D.-programmes, but unfortunately not all of them have webpages in English about their Ph.D.-programmes. (For information about faculties without Ph.D. webpages in English, see the list of Units at the University of Oslo.)

• The Faculty of Theology
• The Faculty of Law
• The Faculty of Medicine
• The Faculty of Humanities
• The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
• The Faculty of Dentistry
• The Faculty of Social Sciences
• The Faculty of Education

Summer School

• Oslo Summer School in Comparative Social Science Studies

Guidelines and Regulations for Doctoral Degrees

• Regulations for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.) at the University of Oslo (governs candidates admitted to the Ph.D. Programmes before the 21st of June 2007)
• Guidelines for the evaluation of Norwegian doctoral degrees
• The Norwegian academic system and degrees offered at the University of Oslo

The Quota Programme

For students from developing countries: Applicants to the 3-year doctoral programmes at all faculties at the University of Oslo may be considered for Quota Programme funding. For more information, see the Quota Programme - Doctoral Programmes.