Noroff

NOROFF EDUCATION

Type	University College
Established	1987
Location	, Norway

Noroff Education is a privately owned and operated university college and vocational school offering a variety of different study programmes including vocational programs and bachelor's degrees.

Noroff University College

Noroff University College offers currently offer three bachelor's degrees, Interactive Media Games, Interactive Media Animation and Digital Forensics.^[1] The University draws on a number of international staff to deliver educational programs. These degrees are offered both online and on campus all in English. Admission is via both direct admission and the Norwegian University admission system samordna opptak ^[2]

Noroff Vocational School

Vocational programs include design, communication, media, animation, film, music, network and CAD.^[3] Some courses are offered in Norwegian.

Campuses

The Noroff’s main administrative offices are in Kristiansand, Norway. Noroff has campuses in these Norwegian cities: Oslo, Bergen, Kristiansand and Stavanger and has an extensive online education business through Noroff Online Studies.

The schools have approx. 850 full-time students on campus and online each year.

History

The Noroff Institute, Inc. in Norway was established in 1987. At that time the school had 120 students in the first class and with focus on providing the business world skilled, creative co-workers through an intensive and practical school year. In 2001 the Noroff Institute had more than 1,000 full-time students and had grown to become one of Norway’s largest schools in creative production and IT subjects. At this time the company heavily pursued internet based education in the Webstudent department. In 2005 the Noroff Institute started four high schools based on media and communication under the trade name ”Mediegymnaset” (Noroff High School) in Stavanger, Kristiansand, Oslo and Fredrikstad. In 2007 Noroff Institute had grown to become one of the largest schools in Europe within the animation subject 3D Design, in addition it had become Norway’s largest school with regard to the number of students in Film Production.

The school is in cooperation with universities abroad in England, Wales, Australia and South Africa which makes it possible for the students to complete a bachelor's degree taking the third year out of the country.

Noroff has NOKUT ^[4] approved studies which meet qualifications for loans and scholarships in Lånekassen ^[5] for Norwegian students.

External links

References

1. "Noroff University College". Noroff. Retrieved 2014-01-31.
2. "Samnorda Opptak". samordnaopptak. Retrieved 2014-01-31.
3. "Noroff University College". Noroff. Retrieved 2014-01-31.
4. "Nokut". Nokut. Retrieved 2014-01-31.
5. "Lånekassen page in Norwegian". Lånekassen. Retrieved 2014-01-31.