Tromsø is mainly a centre for education and research, with the world’s northernmost university. Other research institutions include the Northern Lights Observatory, the National Centre for Telemedicine, the Agricultural Station and the Polar Institute. Thanks to our position at the top of the world, reading satellite data is a major industry in Tromsø.

The public sector is a major employer in that Tromsø is both a municipal centre and county seat, and not least that the City is home to a large number of state institutions. Service and commercial companies also employ a large number of persons.

A large part of Norwegian fish exports are organized from Tromsø. Fish products, beer and oil lenses are typical products of our manufacturing industries.

However, the biggest single employer is the University Hospital, which supplies medical services to the whole of Northern Norway.

University of Tromsø

N-9037 Tromsø

Tel.: +47 77 64 40 00
Fax.: +47 77 64 49 00

E-mail: postmottak@uit.no
Internet: www.uit.no

University of Tromsø – the northernmost university in the world

The University of Tromsø (UiT) has approx. 6.500 students and 1.800 employees.

The university covers a wide range of subjects and offers more than one hundred study programmes, including language and cultural studies, social sciences, law, economy, marine studies, science and medicine. Ten percent of our students are international, and many of them are attracted to our unique international Master’s Degree Programs, such International Fisheries Management, Peace and Conflict Transformation, Visual Cultural Studies, Indigenous Studies, or Telemedicine.

Our location provides a natural incentive for research on the Arctic and the North. In a small research environment such as ours the barriers between traditional subjects and disciplines tend to be lower than in many of the bigger institutions. This has led to some exciting developments in such cross-disciplinary research areas as biomarine studies, biomedicine, telemedicine and multicultural studies. A new focus is on energy production from renewable and fossilized sources.

But excellence comes in many forms: the UiT Centre for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics has been a Centre of Excellence since 2002.

UiT is actively commercialising research through our technology transfer office (TTO). As of 2006, the university is involved in three centres for research-based innovation (CRI); in marine bioprospecting, telemedicine and ICT.

The University is proud of its beautiful campus and is an active organiser of international conferences and meetings. Welcome to Tromsø!