Organization, budget and employees
- Nine faculties and faculty level groups and 55 departments
- Annual budget: 9 billion NOK (2017)
- 7401 person-years, of which 4789 are in academic or scientific positions (47 per cent women) (2018)
- 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
Studies
- Specialization in technology and the natural sciences. 75 per cent of Norway's master candidates in technology
- 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
- 341 study programmes (2018)
- 42 031 registered students autumn, of which about half study technology and the natural sciences (2018)
- 3572 of the students are international (2018)
- 4175 registered students in further education programmes, experience-based master's and ICT courses (2018)
- 7210 bachelor's and master's degrees awarded (2017)
- Dozens of international student exchange programmes and more than 300 cooperative or exchange agreements with 60 universities worldwide
- More than 38 000 alumns worldwide
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.