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NTNU offers more than 30 International Master's programmes taught in English.

Visiting/exchange students
NTNU has nearly 300 cooperative programmes or exchanges with
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Taming urban sprawl

Choking on their own growth
Gemini Spring 2013 edition
The world's megacities are only going to grow -- and the ones that will grow the most are those in lesser developed countries that don't have the tools to plan for this inevitable and explosive expansion. Read how NTNU planning students are helping residents of slums in Uganda and elsewhere in the world get the vital services they need in the latest edition of Gemini, NTNU and SINTEF's popular science research magazine.
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It started with one computer...

Fifty years ago, GIER, a coat-closet sized computer, came to Trondheim. It ushered the university into the digital age. In celebration of that singular event, the Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering has made a video that gives you an overview of just what GIER brought to Trondheim.

NTNU News

UN Secretary-General asks student summit for help with sustainable energy
(14.06.2013) "We need your help," UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon wrote an international student energy summit being held at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim this week.

Fit in twelve minutes a week
(29.05.2013) It is a commonly held perception that getting in shape and staying there requires hard work and hours upon hours of training. New research from NTNU shows the opposite – it seems that only four minutes of vigorous activity three times per week is enough to be fit and healthy.
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