Rector Election 2025
Ragnhild Hennum has been elected as the new rector at the University of Oslo. Hennum and her team received 53 percent of the votes and will serve a term from August 1, 2025, to 2029.
Ragnhild Hennum ran for election together with pro-rector Bj?rn Jamtveit. Accompanying them are vice-rectors Mathilde Skoie, Berit Karseth, and Jens Petter Berg.
Get to know the newly elected rector and her team
Candidates in the electon
Dean Ragnhild Hennum from the Faculty of Law ran against dean Hanne Flinstad Harbo from the Faculty of Medicine and director Giske Ursin from the Cancer Registry.
Team Harbo's campaign platform
Team Ursin's campaign platform
This is how employees and students voted
Voter turnout
- Students: 16,39 percent
- Employees: 60,1 percent
Distribution of the vote
Team Hennum
- Students: 39,77 percent (1593 votes)
- Employees: 57,77 percent (2492 votes)
- Total: 53 percent
Team Harbo
- Students: 34,35 percent (1376 votes)
- Employees: 30 percent (1294 votes)
- Total: 31 percent
Team Ursin
- Students: 25,89 percent (1037 votes)
- Employees: 12,24 percent (528 votes)
- Total: 16 percent
About the election
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Registered students, Ph.D. candidates, adjunct professors, and anyone employed in at least a 50 percent position can vote for their preferred candidates for rector and pro-rector. External doctoral candidates have the right to vote if they are employed temporarily or registered as students for the semester. The determining factor for your eligibility to vote is your employment status on the day you cast your vote. Read more about elections at UiO
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The election took place electronically.
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The election was a so-called preferential election. Eligible voters must rank the teams and can vote for as many teams as they like. Read more about the election regulations (in Norwegian)
- The results were announced April 4, 2025.