NTNU offers a range of courses at the doctoral level. In addition to the doctoral thesis, a PhD education consists of a coursework component of at least 30 ECTS. Most PhD-programmes have a combination of compulsory and elective courses. As part of your application process, you must develop a plan for your coursework component. For more information on which courses are available for you, look at the web pages of the specific PhD-programme.

Doctoral courses through Nordic universities

Nordic Five Tech (N5T) is an exclusive, strategic alliance of the five leading technical universities in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. As a PhD-candidate at one of these universities, you may attend PhD-courses at all five universities at no extra cost.

External candidates

If you are not a PhD-candidate at NTNU, you may still apply for and attend PhD-courses here.

Graduate researcher schools

A graduate researcher school consists of a network of universities, university colleges and research institutes and complements the regular PhD-programmes. By participating in a graduate researcher school you gain access to a larger research group, a greater variety of PhD-courses, joint seminars and so on. Once you have been admitted to a PhD-programme, you may join a graduate researcher school in your field of study.

Graduate researcher schools for PhD-candidates at NTNU:

• Authoritative Texts and Their Reception – ATTR
• Centre for Digital Life Norway Research School – DLNRS
• Enterprise Development and Work-life Research
• National Graduate School in Teacher Education – NAFOL
• National Research School in General Practice – NAFALM
• National Graduate School in Educational Research – NATED
• National interdisciplinary Research School Religion-Values-Society
• National Research School in Population based Epidemiology – EPINOR
• Norwegian Graduate Researcher School in Linguistics and Philology
• Norwegian Graduate School in History
• Norwegian PhD Network on Nanotechnology for Microsystems
• Norwegian PhD School of Heart Research – NORHEART
• Norwegian Research School for Research and Development of Municipal Health and Care
• Norwegian Graduate School in Biocatalysis – BioCat
• Norwegian Research School in Infection Biology and Antimicrobials – IBA
• Norwegian Research School in Global Health
• Norwegian Research School in Innovation
• Norwegian Research School in Medical Imaging
• Norwegian Research School in Neuroscience
• The Norwegian Research School in Renewable Energy
• Norwegian Researcher School in Geography
• Norwegian Research School on Dynamics and Evolution of Earth and Planets
• Petroleum Research School of Norway
• Research School in Biosystematics
• Research School of Computer and Information Security