Norway

• No tuition at public institutions for EU/EEA citizens — you pay only a semester fee of roughly NOK 850–1,000.
• Danish, Norwegian or Swedish A at grade 3 or better, HL or SL, meets Samordna opptak's Norwegian requirement, so if you take one of them no Norwegian test is needed for Norwegian-taught programmes.
• If you can claim Danish SU, it is paid here as if you studied in Denmark, not capped at the four years that apply outside the Nordics.
• IB Maths AA SL on its own satisfies the Norwegian R1+R2 requirement, so engineering needs only Physics SL alongside it.
• 43–45 IB points converts to 60.0 karakterpoeng — the top of the Norwegian scale.
• Genuinely distinctive niches: Arctic and marine biology at Nord, game development at INN, sport science at NIH.

• NTNU, UiT and HVL state plainly that they offer no English-taught bachelor's degrees. UiB's three English-listed 'bachelors' are Norwegian-language degrees.
• English-taught programmes apply direct to the institution and often close on 1 December 2026 — months before Danish or British norms, and before predicted grades are settled.
• UiO's one English-taught bachelor's wants every document by 1 December 2026, which a May 2027 candidate cannot meet. NMBU's is open to you through Samordna opptak by 15 April if you document Norwegian, and Danish, Norwegian or Swedish A does.
• The Samordna opptak documentation deadline of 1 July falls before IB results are released on 6 July. You must arrange the IBO Request for Results Service with your IB coordinator.
• Unless you hold Norwegian citizenship, Lånekassen is realistically closed to a school-leaver arriving from Denmark, and Norway offers no scholarships to EU/EEA bachelor students.
• Living costs are high: the official student budget is NOK 15,488 per month, roughly €1,320.

Accepted

Yes

Minimum

No minimum point score for a full IB Diploma holder — holding the Diploma is itself the education requirement. A DP Course Results / IB Certificate needs at least 20 points including TOK/EE points, passed TOK and Extended Essay, completed CAS, and grade 3 or better in all subjects, with 3 SL + 3 HL or 2 SL + 4 HL.

Subjects and levels

Grade 3 or better is required in each subject used to meet a specific requirement. Mathematical Studies SL and Maths AI SL cover S1+S2. Maths AA SL, AA HL and AI HL all cover R1+R2. Physics SL covers Fysikk 1 and Physics HL covers Fysikk 1+2; the same SL/HL pattern applies to Chemistry, Biology, Computer Science, Economics and Design Technology.

Score conversion

Total points (the 45-point scale, including TOK/EE bonus points) converts to Norwegian karakterpoeng: 43–45 = 60.0, 42 = 59.3, 41 = 58.6, 40 = 57.1, 38 = 54.3, 35 = 50.0, 32 = 45.7, 30 = 42.9, 28 = 40.0, 24 = 34.3, 20 = 26.0. The table is set by the Ministry of Education (Kunnskapsdepartementet). Up to 4 language and science points are added on top for qualifying subjects at grade 3 or better.

• Maths AA SL alone satisfies R1+R2, which works strongly in an IB student's favour. In the Danish system the equivalent normally means Matematik A.
• IB English at grade 3 or better satisfies the national English requirement — no IELTS or TOEFL needed.
• The Norwegian language requirement does not apply to programmes taught in English (opptaksforskrifta § 3-8). Institutions do not apply this uniformly, though: NMBU requires Norwegian B2 for its English-taught bachelor's when you apply through Samordna opptak — which Danish, Norwegian or Swedish A at grade 3 documents.
• Settled: Samordna opptak's IB page lists Danish A, higher or standard level, at grade 3 or better as meeting the Norwegian requirement for general admission, alongside Norwegian A and Swedish A. If you take Danish, Norwegian or Swedish A and reach grade 3, you do not need Norskprøven or Bergenstesten.
• Also unconfirmed: whether an IB Diploma earned abroad counts as a førstegangsvitnemål for the reserved quota. This materially affects how competitive you are.

1. Decide early whether you are applying in English or in Norwegian — they are two different systems with different deadlines, and you can use both.

2. For English-taught programmes, apply directly to each institution through its Søknadsweb portal. Check each deadline individually; they range from 1 December 2026 to 15 April 2027.

3. For Norwegian-taught programmes, register on Samordna opptak from 1 February 2027 and list up to ten choices in order of preference. A lower choice is dropped automatically once a higher one is offered.

4. Ask your IB coordinator to fill in the IB's Request for Results Service in spring 2027, naming the institutions that handle your application, so they can read your results electronically — the 1 July documentation deadline falls before results day.

5. Upload your IB diploma and transcript. No translation is needed for documents in English or a Scandinavian language.

6. If you are a Nordic citizen, you do not register with the police. Other EU/EEA citizens staying more than three months register with the police within three months of arriving. If you will stay more than six months, report your move to Norway to the Tax Administration (Skatteetaten) to get a national identity number.

Two quotas: a first-time-certificate quota competing on skolepoeng, and an ordinary quota competing on konkurransepoeng (which adds age points and up to two supplementary points). For autumn 2027 the procedural reforms bite — særskilt vurdering is abolished, ties are broken by lottery, and institutions may introduce their own ranking entrance tests — but age points, the current supplementary-point regime and the 50% first-time quota all survive. The bigger changes, including the removal of age points entirely, land in 2028.

• 1 December 2026
  2027 entry

  University of Oslo — Technology Systems: Science and Engineering, applicants without Norwegian

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  UiO's own admission page for applicants who cannot document Norwegian proficiency. UiO states "You must submit all documents before the application deadline, or your application will not be considered", so a May 2027 IB candidate cannot document the Diploma in time: this route suits a student who already holds it. The financing documentation the page demands does not apply to Norwegian, Nordic and EU/EEA citizens.

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• 1 December 2026
  2027 entry

  NMBU — International Environment and Development Studies, applicants without Norwegian

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as "1 December, the year before you plan to start" — but only for applicants "from outside the Nordic countries" who "cannot document proficiency in Norwegian". If you take Danish, Norwegian or Swedish A and reach grade 3 or better, you document Norwegian and apply through Samordna opptak by 15 April instead, where NMBU requires Norwegian B2 even though the programme is taught in English. Without one of those, this 1 December route is the one.

  Source

• 15 December 2026
  2027 entry

  University of Agder — music performance programmes (Classical Music Performance, Electronic Music)

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as "Application deadline for all applicants to music performance programmes" on 15 December, with no year; this site assumes the 2027 intake. Two of UiA's four English-taught bachelor's are music performance degrees, so for them the deadline is December, not 1 March.

  Source

• 1 February 2027

  Samordna opptak opens for the 2027 admission round

  Via Norway

  Details

  The course catalogue for the year is published the same day.

  Published as "Opent for søking" on 1 February, when the study overview for the round is also released. Nothing can be submitted through Samordna opptak before this day, and the same 1 February opening applies to the University of Agder's and Nord's own English-taught application webs.

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• 15 February 2027
  2027 entry

  NHH Norwegian School of Economics — BSc in Business, Economics and Data Science, EU/EEA/Swiss

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  NHH publishes "1 January – 15 February 2027: Submit application, test results, and diploma." If you are eligible for a conditional offer, official predicted grades are due by 15 February 2027 and the final diploma can be uploaded later, until 6 July 2027. Decisions for the EU/EEA/Swiss round come in May. Non-EU/EEA/Swiss applicants apply 1–15 November 2026.

  Source

• 1 March 2027
  2027 entry

  University of Agder — English-taught bachelor's except music performance, EU/EEA applicants

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  UiA's date, published as "Application deadline for EU/EEA applicants" with no year, so this site assumes the 2027 intake. It covers Academic Esports and English; the two music performance degrees close earlier, on 15 December (their own entry). UiA's application web opens 1 February, and results for EU/EEA applicants come on 1 June and 10 July.

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• 15 April 2027, 23:59 Oslo time

  Samordna opptak main deadline (Norwegian-taught programmes)

  Hard deadline Via Norway

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Last day to apply or to add further choices. Completed education must be documented the same day.

  Published as "15. april kl. 23.59 er siste frist for å søkje". Up to ten ranked choices. The round opens on 1 February, which has its own entry. Documentation for a regular applicant is due the same day, with the exception for spring-semester results that pushes the upload to 1 July.

  Source

• 15 April 2027
  2027 entry

  Nord University — English-taught bachelor's, EU/EEA and Nordic applicants

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as the window "1 February - 15 April" with no year, so this site assumes the 2027 intake. The application itself is due on this date; the educational documentation has a later deadline of its own, which is the next entry. Nord publishes results to EU/EEA applicants at the beginning of July. The dates are on Nord's central admission page, not on the programme pages.

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• 1 July 2027, 23:59 Oslo time

  Documentation deadline for education finished this spring

  Hard deadline Via Norway

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Five days before IB results are published. Samordna opptak's instruction for an IB student graduating this year: you will not be able to upload the diploma in time, so give the institutions electronic access through the IB's Request for Results Service, filled in with your coordinator.

  Falls before IB results are released on 6 July. Samordna opptak's answer for a student graduating this year: you will not be able to upload your diploma by 1 July, so fill in the IB's "Request for Results Service" with your IB coordinator, naming the institutions that handle your application, and they read your results electronically. This is also the omprioriteringsfrist, the last day on which you can reorder your ranked choices.

  Source

• 1 July 2027, 23:59 Oslo time

  Last day to change the order of your choices

  Hard deadline Via Norway

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  An offer on a higher choice removes every lower one permanently, with no wait-list. The order on this date is the order that decides your year.

• 1 July 2027
  2027 entry

  Nord University — documentation deadline for spring school-leavers

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Nord's general rule is that EU/EEA applicants document by 15 April, but applicants who finish secondary school in the spring — which every May-session IB candidate does — have until 1 July to upload their educational documentation. Published without a year, so this site assumes the 2027 intake. It falls on the same day as the Samordna opptak documentation deadline and, like that one, before IB results are released, so the same Request for Results arrangement applies.

  Source

• 6 July 2027

  IB results released

  Via Norway

  Details

  After the Norwegian documentation deadline. The institutions read your results through the IB's Request for Results Service, which you arrange with your coordinator in advance.

• 20 July 2027
  2027 entry — indicative

  Samordna opptak results published

  Details

  The main admission result. Applications for vacant places (ledige studieplassar) open the same day. What you do next has its own entry and its own deadline, four days later.

  Source

• 24 July 2027, 23:59
  2027 entry — 2027 calendar not yet published; 2026 pattern shown

  Accept or decline your Samordna opptak offer

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as "Siste frist for å svare", at 23:59. Put it in a calendar the day you apply, not the day you are offered a place.

  Source

English-taught bachelors

Very limited — roughly fifteen programmes nationally. HK-dir lists 361 English-taught programmes across all levels, but these are overwhelmingly master's.

Proving your English

IB English (A or B) at grade 3 or better satisfies the national requirement, as does English being your language of instruction. The national floor for test-takers is IELTS 5.0 or TOEFL iBT 60, but individual programmes set higher bars.

Local language needed?

Not for English-taught programmes

• Norwegian is not required for programmes taught in English, but it is required for everything else — which is most of the system.
• Norwegian B2 can be documented through Norskprøven (B2 in all four skills) or Bergenstesten.
• Danish and Norwegian are mutually intelligible in writing, so reaching B2 Norwegian is a far smaller undertaking for a Danish speaker than for most applicants. This is worth taking seriously — it unlocks the whole free system.

Tuition, EU/EEA

None at public institutions. BI Norwegian Business School is private and charges NOK 106,400 per year even to EU/EEA students. (2026/27)

Tuition, non-EU

Mandatory but no longer required to be cost-covering since 1 August 2026. Several institutions cut fees sharply: Nord and UiS now NOK 60,000–85,000, INN NOK 68,000, USN NOK 50,000–90,000. NTNU, UiO, UiB and HVL did not cut. UiO's 2027/28 rates are NOK 218,000 for science and technology and NOK 186,000 for humanities and social science. (2026/27 and 2027/28)

Application fee

None for EU/EEA applicants.

Living costs

NOK 15,488 per month (about €1,320), or NOK 170,368 per year (2026/27)

• Every student pays a semester fee of about NOK 1,000 per semester to the student welfare organisation. It buys the student ID, discounted transport, health services and gym access, and you cannot sit exams without it.
• The figure of NOK 15,488 per month is formally the immigration authority's subsistence requirement for non-EEA students, but it is also the realistic cost of living and the right number for you to budget against.

Funding you could actually get

• Danish SU can follow you here if you can claim it (Danish citizens, or EU/EEA citizens with equal status under EU rules) and meet the ties-to-Denmark requirement. In 2026 it is DKK 7,426 a month before tax if you live away from your parents. Because Norway is a Nordic country, it is paid as if you studied in Denmark — for anyone starting after 1 July 2025, for the programme's prescribed length only. It uses SU-klip, within the 70-klip frame su.dk sets for all higher education abroad. If you cannot claim SU, look first at your own country's student finance: several EU/EEA systems fund a full degree in another country.
• Lånekassen, the Norwegian loan fund, requires either permanent residence, five years in Norway, or worker status with at least ten hours a week alongside your studies. A 19-year-old arriving straight from gymnasium does not qualify — though taking a part-time job is a genuine route in.
• There are no Norwegian government scholarships for EU/EEA bachelor students. Study in Norway says so outright.

Residency

No residence permit is needed. If you are a Nordic citizen, you do not register with the police either; other EU/EEA citizens staying more than three months register with the police within three months of arriving. If you will stay more than six months, report your move to Norway to the Tax Administration (Skatteetaten); once it is approved you receive a national identity number.

Working

No restriction for EU/EEA students. Non-EU students on a first-time permit may work 20 hours a week during term and full-time in holidays.

Housing

Run by the Samskipnad (student welfare organisation) in each city — SiO in Oslo — and funded by the semester fee. Applications are accepted year-round and offers go out continuously. Oslo, Bergen and Trondheim all have shortages at the August intake, and Oslo's private market is the main reason Norway is expensive despite free tuition. Apply the day your offer arrives.

Healthcare

Bring your EHIC. It covers medically necessary care from public providers on the same terms as a tourist. Once you are registered as resident with a national identity number you get care on the same basis as Norwegians, including a fastlege (assigned GP). Helsenorge recommends private insurance on top, particularly for repatriation. Taking a job generally makes you a member of folketrygden — check with NAV.

Your IB is still a foreign qualification, so the IB entry rules on this page still apply.