The Norwegian School of Economics, the University of Bergen, and the University of Oslo also emerged as the top sought-after institutions.
The Norwegian School of Economics, the University of Bergen, and the University of Oslo also emerged as the top sought-after institutions.
Norwegian student applicants have shown a preference for programs in civil economics, jurisprudence, and ICT this year with the Norwegian School of Economics, the University of Bergen, and the University of Oslo being the top sought-after institutions.
A press release from the Norwegian Education Ministry revealed that several study programs received an exceptional number of applicants, surpassing the planned number of study places, the Erudera reported. The civil economics program has been especially popular, with 2,170 applicants choosing it as their top choice, which is nearly five times more than the 500 available study places.
The University of Oslo and the University of Bergen’s jurisprudence programs had the second and third highest number of applicants, with 2,159 and 1,926, respectively, while the number of available study places for new applicants at these universities was 224 and 380, respectively.
The online and part-time organization and management program at Rena, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, has once again secured a place in the top five most sought-after programs, with 1,391 applicants competing for the 220 planned study places.
“Going forward, a shortage of skills will become one of the most important bottlenecks to solving the major challenges we as a society face. Investing in education and knowledge is crucial to ensure competitiveness and welfare in the Norway of the future,” Ola Borten Moe, the Research and Higher Education Minister, said in the statement via Erudera.
The online study of management at Alta was the top choice for 1,249 applicants, competing for 800 study places, while 1,245 applicants for the industrial economy and Technology Management at Trondheim were hoping to secure one of the 144 available study places.
The remaining four study programs that complete the top 10 most popular courses among Norwegian student applicants are police training at the Norwegian Police University College, with 1,187 applicants competing for 176 study places; architecture at Oslo School of Architecture and Design, with 1,133 applicants vying for 60 available study places; 991 applicants competing for 205 spots for new scholars at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim; and the part-time online study program at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences NMBU, with 973 applicants competing for 200 designated study places.
The most in-demand courses with the highest number of first-choice applicants per study place are the architecture program at AHO, with 18.9 first-choice applicants per place, followed by aviation studies with 17.3, and criminology with 17.2. The architecture program received a total of 1,133 applicants for the 60 planned study places.
In the Schengen Visa report, it was revealed that over 30,000 applicants had applied for healthcare programs, which is considered an important step in addressing the current shortage of professionals in the sector.
The number of applicants to vocational schools had also increased by 10 percent, with 1,200 more applicants this year, totaling 13,453. There are currently more available study places for vocational students than ever before, it was added.
