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Required specialization
Bachelor's degree
You must have a bachelor’s degree comparable to a Norwegian bachelor’s degree.
Required specialisation and minimum grade requirement
You must have a specialisation of at least 80 ECTS credits required by the programme and a minimum grade average comparable to a Norwegian C. Norwegian C is described as a good grade, generally comparable to American B and Second Class Upper in the British system. We do not use conversion tables for foreign grades. All foreign education is individually evaluated during the admission process.
Please note that eligible applicants who fulfil the minimum grade requirement will compete for a study place. Please see the section on ranking below for more information on which subjects are calculated to determine the minimum grade average.
The required specialisation consists of 80 ECTS credits, with a minimum grade average of C (Norwegian grading scale), and where the following or equivalent courses are included:
- MAT1100 – Calculus
- MAT1110 – Calculus and linear algebra
- MAT1120 – Linear algebra
- One introductory course in programming, similar to:
- IN1900 – Introduction to Programming with Scientific Applications/previously INF1100 – Introduction to programming with scientific applications (continued)
- IN1000 – Introduction to Object-oriented Programming/previusly INF1000 – Introduction to object-oriented programming (continued)
- MAT-IN1105 – Programming, Modelling and Computations/previously MAT-INF1100L – Programming, Modelling and Computations (continued)
- MAT-INF1100 – Modelling and computations (discontinued)
- IN-KJM1900 – Introduction to Programming for Chemists
- GEO-KJM1040 – Introduction to programming with applications in geosciences and in chemistry (discontinued)
- BIOS1100 – Introduction to computational models for Biosciences (discontinued)
- The remaining 40 ECTS credits have to be advanced undergraduate courses, (corresponding to UiO courses at 2000 level or higher) within at most two of the fields of astrophysics, chemistry, computer science and informatics, geoscience, mathematics, materials science, mechanics and physics.
Exemption for applicants with courses in biology: Applicants who fulfill the first 40 credit's requirements are allowed to use advanced undergraduate courses within at most two of the fields (as mentioned above) including courses in biology. This exemption applies until the admission deadline in SPRING 2029.
Further documentation for this program
If you have completed studies/courses outside the University of Oslo, you must also upload course descriptions. External courses lacking descriptions will not be used to assess the applicant during admission process. The course names and codes on the course descriptions must match the transcript of records.
Ranking of applicants
Selection is based on your academic performance in the required subjects for this programme.
Applicants are ranked according to their grade average of 80 ECTS credits in the required specialisation. A list of the courses forming the grade average can be found under the heading ”Academic background". If an applicant has more than 80 ECTS credits in the required specialisation, the 80 ECTS credits with the highest grades will form the grade average.