• Eight faculties and the University Museum, with a total of 52 departments
• Budget: NOK 11 billion, of which NOK 3,2 billion from external sources
• 8430 employees
• 7540 full-time equivalents (FTEs), of which 4750 work with teaching, research and dissemination (academic positions). 50 per cent of the staff are women, and approximately 39 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 14 library departments, 1.4 million visits to the libraries, 1.8 million printed books, 1 million e-books, 275 databases and more than 1.2 million annual full-text article downloads

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Students

• Most first-priority applicants of Norwegian universities, 24,008, og the university that recruits the most nationally
• 43,507 registered students, about half within science and technology
• 85 per cent of the students are in Trondheim, 9 per cent in Gjøvik and 6 per cent in Ålesund
• Just above half of the students (53 per cent) are women
• 3755 of the students (9 per cent) are international, and they are from 114 countries
• 8847 bachelor's and master's degrees awarded (2025)
• 3887 in further education programmes and in experience-based master's (2025)

Education

• Specialization in technology and the natural sciences. 70 percent of Norway's master candidates in technology
• 371 study programmes, as well as further education.
• 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.
• Educates most teachers (teacher training, lecturer, primary school, vocational), and in health and fine arts in Norway
• Almost half of the students are in technical and natural sciences programmes 

• 497 doctoral degrees (2024)
• 648 projects in EU's framework programmes
• 45 awarded ERC Grants
• Five Strategic Research Areas in the period 2024–2031
• Hosting and partnership in the national centres: 
  • 6 Centres of Excellence
  • 12 Centres for Research-based Innovation
  • 19 Centres for Environment-friendly Energy Research
• More than 2400 ideas and 80 spin-off's to innovative projects
• More than 400 projects have received more than 125 million NOK in financial support since 2011
  • Of these, more than 110 companies have been established.

• Budget: NOK 11 billion, of which NOK 7,8 billion from granting autority and NOK 3,2 billion from other sources
• Facilities (owned or rented) totalling 734 000 m²