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Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
Institution Info
With 20,000 students studying a range of disciplines in seven different faculties, NTNU is alive with the intellectual energy of people pursuing their dreams.
Whether your passion is ship design or medical research , virtual reality or urban renewal in China , NTNU has something for you. NTNU is Norway’s second largest university, with an annual budget of about US $800 million. Its 53 departments are spread out over seven major campuses, and graduate about 3,300 students every year, two-thirds of which are master’s or PhD candidates. The university has more than 100 laboratory facilities distributed among the different faculties and departments. These are central elements in NTNU's education and research work.
One hundred years of innovation NTNU research is cutting edge, and many of the technological and cultural innovations that allow Norway to extract oil from the North Sea , grow healthy salmon in fish farms , or interpret the country’s 9,000 years of human history have been developed here. In fact, the university itself, founded in 1910, has contributed a solid century of academic achievements and discoveries that have shaped Norwegian society.
Facts and Figures
| No. of students: | 20,000* |
| Funding type: | Unknown |
PhD Programmes
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Engineering and Architecture
- Industrial Ecology (Ph.D.)
Services & Facilities
Housing for International master's students
If you're in an International Master's programme, programme coordinators will organize housing for you. If you're a visiting or exchange student, you will be informed about housing by the Office of International Relations.
Housing for PhD candidates
PhD candidates are not eligible to live in NTNU housing, but can get help finding housing from their respective faculties, or from our International Staff Services office.
Pick up your keys
All students who are assigned NTNU student housing must pick up their keys at the Moholt student village reception, regardless of the location of the housing. Check the link for opening hours and location.
Certainly one correct answer to that enduring question is: a good source of books, whether from a library or a bookstore; food that's healthy, cheap and plentiful; and ready access to computers and the Internet. You'll find all three in abundance at NTNU.
NTNU's 11 libraries are home to 2.8 million printed volumes, 37 500 electronic books and 10 000 electronic journals, and offer access to 1200 international reference databases. The various libraries on NTNU campuses also have a number of paper copies of important peer-reviewed journals and other publications; as just one example, Gunnerus Library is home to a substantial photo and manuscript archive.
SiT Tapir operates than a dozen cafes, cafeterias and small food markets that are found on NTNU's main campuses, Dragvoll and Gløshaugen, as well as at Tyholt, Kalvskinnet and Moholt. Cafeteria menus are typically posted online, so you can even plan which night you might want to eat on campus instead of cooking at home.
Coffee bars and sandwich foods The cafes offer a more limited menu than the cafeterias, typically sandwiches, coffees and teas, and light snacks. The food markets (called storkiosks, only at Dragvoll and Gløshaugen) sell fruit, snacks, newspapers, ready-made sandwiches and salads, and foods that you can use to put together your own lunch, such as fresh breads, cheeses and other sandwich fixings.
Supercomputing facilities NTNU has its own supercomputer, called Njord, named after the Norwegian god who is the protector of seafarers and fishermen and who sends favourable winds and calm seas. Njord is an IBM p575+ interconnected with a high-bandwidth low-latency switch network (HPS). When it was installed in August of 2006, it was one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, and doubled Norway's supercomputing capacity in one fell swoop. NTNU's researchers use the machine for a variety of projects, including helping with the 3-D visualization of oil reservoirs and water and sediment flow in rivers. The Norwegian Meterological Institute also uses time on the machine to create more detailed and real-time weather forecasts.
For those who are curious about the technical details, Njord has a total of 65 nodes partitioned into 59 compute nodes, 4 I/O nodes and 2 login nodes. All 59 compute nodes are shared memory nodes with 8 dual-core power5+ processors 1.9 Ghz. Four of the compute nodes have 128 GB memory, while the remaining 55 have 32 GB of memory.
The system is well-suited for large-scale parallel MPI and OpenMP applications, as well as applications that combine these two communication paradigms.However, all high performance computing in Norway is controlled by a cooperative called NOTUR, which ensures that computing time on the country's four supercomputers is properly allocated.
Student Life
Norway’s most popular student city Students are at the core of NTNU’s vibrancy. The university is home to roughly 350 different student organizations , where you can meet people who are interested in everything from Amnesty International to telemark skiing . NTNUI , the student athletic organization, operates two sports centres with training facilities and courses.
Festivals and Nobel laureates Every other year, student volunteers organize two popular festivals: UKA , which is Norway’s largest arts and music festival, and ISFiT, an internationally known student conferences. While UKA is recognized for attracting top international musicians along with a range of art exhibits, performances and its very own UKA revue, ISFiT, the International Student Festival in Trondheim, regularly attracts world leaders to address and inspire conference participants. In 2009, for example, Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu was the opening speaker. It’s no wonder that Trondheim is regularly voted as Norway’s best university student town.
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