Facts and figures
Organization, budget and employees
- Nine faculties and faculty level groups and 55 departments
- Budget: NOK 9,6 billion, of which NOK 2,7 billion from external sources (2019)
- 7761 full-time equivalents (FTEs) (2020). Two of three (5057) work with teaching, research and dissemination (academic positions), off which more than 42 per cent are women and approx 35 per cent are international.
- Close cooperation with SINTEF, an R&D organization with 1800 employees (both co-located with NTNU in Trondheim, and in Oslo)
- Facilities (owned or rented) totalling 734 000 m2
- University Library with 16 library departments, 2 million printed books, 925 000 e-books, 275 databases and over 3 million annual full-text article downloads
Studies
- Specialization in technology and the natural sciences. 75 per cent of Norway's master candidates in technology
- Educates most teachers (teacher training, lecturer, primary school, vocational), and in health and fine arts in Norway
- Also offers a range of bachelor's, master's and doctoral programmes in humanities, social sciences, economics, medicine, health sciences, educational sciences, architecture, entrepreneurship and aesthetic disciplines
- Professional degree programmes in medicine, psychology, architecture, the fine arts, music, and teacher education, in addition to technology
- Most first-priority applicants of Norgwegian universities, 25 240 (2020), og the university that recruits the most nationally
- 371 study programmes (2019), as well as further education
- 42 379 registered students, of which about half study technology and the natural sciences (2020)
- 3629 (9 per cent) of the students are international, from 119 countries (2019)
- Just over half of the students are women (2019)
- Almost half of the students are in technical and natural sciences programmes (2019)
- 4624 registered students in further education programmes, experience-based master's and ICT courses (2019)
- 7586 bachelor's and master's degrees awarded (2019)
- Dozens of international student exchange programmes and more than 300 cooperative or exchange agreements with 60 universities worldwide
- More than 38 000 alumns worldwide
Research and collaboration with business
- Doctoral degrees: 406 (2020)
- Many large and small aboratories
- Horizon 2020: 218 signed projects (december 2020)
- Four Strategic Research Areas in the period 2014–2023
- Innovation Resources
Strategies, plans and reports
The history of NTNU
- The Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology 2014 was awarded to the brain researchers May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser at NTNU and John O'Keefe at University College London.
- Two students at former NTH – Norwegian Institute of Technology are awarded the Nobel Prize: Ivar Giæver in Physics 1973 and Lars Onsager in Chemistry 1968
- NTNU was established in 1996 after the merger of six research and higher educational institutions in Trondheim.
- More about the history of NTNU.