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University of Bergen
Universitetet i Bergen
Latin: Universitas Bergensis
Established	1946 (1825)
Type:	Public University
Rector:	Sigmund Grønmo
Staff:	3,000 (2006)
Students:	16,000 (2006)
Location	Bergen, Norway
Affiliations:	Coimbra Group EUA
Website:	www.uib.no

The University of Bergen (Universitetet i Bergen) is located in Bergen, Norway. Although founded as late as 1946, academic activity had taken place at Bergen Museum as far back as 1825. The university today caters for more than 16,000 students. It is one of seven universities in Norway, the other six being the University of Oslo, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, the University of Tromsø, the University of Stavanger, the University of Agder and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences.

Home students (European citizens) do not pay fees to the university. Students are however required to be members of the student welfare organisation. As of Fall 2006, this fee (semesteravgift) is NOK 800 (approx. US$ 120) per year, and provides access to several services, including cultural activities, exercise facilities, childcare, refunds for many medical expenses and subsidized accommodation.

Contents 1 Rankings 2 Faculties 2.1 Faculty of Humanities 2.2 Faculty of Dentistry 2.3 Faculty of Law 2.4 Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences 2.5 Faculty of Medicine 2.6 Faculty of Psychology 2.7 Faculty of Social Sciences 3 References 4 External links

In 2006, the University of Bergen appeared unranked on the THES - QS World University Rankings among the 201-520th best universities in Europe.^[1] In 2007, the university was ranked as the 225th best in Europe, in front of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and the University of Tromsø, which ranked as the 301st and 292nd best respectively, but behind the University of Oslo, ranked as the 188th best university.^[2]

• Institute for Foreign Languages (Arabic, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish and German) (IF)
• Institute for Linguistics, Literary and Aestethical studies (LLE)
• Institute for Archeology, History, Cultures and Religion (AHKR)
• Institute for Philosophy and First Semester Studies (see Examen philosophicum and Examen facultatum) (FOF)
• The Grieg Academy – Institute for Music

As of August 1, 2007, the faculty is currently revising its structure and names.

The Faculty of Dentistry, established in 1962, is one of two institutions in Norway rewarding dentistry qualifications.

The Faculty of Law was established as a separate faculty in 1980, with legal studies and research having been conducted at the university since 1969. The faculty is one of three Norwegian institutions which offer legal studies, the other two being the law faculties at the University of Oslo and the University of Tromsø. The faculty offers a five-year programme leading to a Master's degree in law and a three-year PhD programme, and currently has approximately 1900 students.

• Department of Biology
• Department of Chemistry
• Department of Geophysics
• Department of Geoscience
• Department of Informatics
• Department of Mathematics
• Department of Molecular Biology
• Department of Physics and Technology
• Centre for Pharmacy
• Centre for Environmental and resource studies
• Centre for Integrated Petroleum Research

• Centre for International Health
• Centre of Virology
• Department of Biomedicine
• Department of Clinical Medicine
• Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care
• Department of Surgical Sciences
• Gade's Institute
• Institute of Medicine
• Section for Medical Image Analysis and Pattern Recognition
• Vivarium

The University of Bergen is the only institution in the Nordic countries where the study of psychology has been assigned to its own faculty. Established in 1980, it educates psychologists and is responsible for the University's pedagogic education.

• Department of Comparative Politics
• Department of Information Science and Media Studies
• Institute for Administration and Organizational Science
• Institute for Geography
• Institute for Social Anthropology
• Institute for Economics
• Institute for Sociology
• Centre for Development Studies
• Centre for Gender Studies
• Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
• Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP)
• InterMedia
• The Rokkan Centre

• Official site
• Humanities IT centre
  • Wittgenstein Archives of Bergen - Ludwig Wittgenstein

Coordinates: 60°23′17.11″N, 5°19′22.34″E

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