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The University of Oslo (Universitetet i Oslo, in latin Universitas Osloensis), founded in 1811 as Det Kgl. Frederiks Universitet and having approx. 32,000 students, is the largest and oldest university in Norway. The other universities are the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, the University of Bergen and the University of Tromsø.
The university has faculties of Theology, Law, Medicine, Arts, Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Dentistry, Social Sciences and Education. Some of these are situated in the central part of Oslo, while most of them lie in a part of Oslo called Blindern.
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Reseach
Four researchers at the University of Oslo have been rewarded with Nobel prizes:
Student life
Being situated in a social democracy, the fee for attending this university is very low: 1380 NOK (approx. 200 USD) per year.
While Oslo has some of the highest real estate prices in the world, Studentsamskipnaden i Oslo provides relatively cheap apartments for foreign students, and students from out of town.