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Facts and figures

The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Oslo is among the leading humanities faculties in Scandinavia.

Key figures - 2022

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  • 810 employees
  • 5200 students

 

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  • 7 departments
  • 5 centers
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  • 17 bachelor programmes
  • 26 master's programmes
  • 17 one year units
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  • 2 Centers of Excellence in Research

  • 13 ERC-projects 

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  • 654 academic publications
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  • Total income: NOK 882 million

  • Proportion of budget funded by external sources: 30 per cen

Areas of research

Particularly strong areas of research at the Faculty of Humanities include:

  • Archeology
  • Philosophy
  • Ibsen Studies
  • Classical Languages
  • Cultural History and Museology
  • Linguistics
  • Media Studies
  • Middle East and Africa
  • Popular Music
  • Eastern Europe

Interdisciplinary initiatives

UiO:Democracy

The initiative will contribute to interdisciplinary research on democracy.

UiO:Nordic

UiO:Nordic is a world leading research initiative on the Nordic region and Nordic issues in an international context