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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 – 2025

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  • 849 employees
  • 5660 students
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  • Seven departments
  • Three centers
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  • 26 bachelor programmes
  • 25 master's programmes
  • 17 one year units
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  • One Center of Excellence in Research
  • 19 ERC-projects 
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  • 705 academic publications 
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  • Total income: NOK 922 million
  • Proportion of budget funded by external sources: 26 per cent

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.

Go to UiO:Democracy
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