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Required specialization
Bachelor's degree
You must have a bachelor’s degree comparable to a Norwegian bachelor’s degree.
Required specialization and minimum grade requirement
You must have a minimum grade average comparable to a Norwegian C in the required specialization. A Norwegian C is described as a good grade, generally comparable to an American B and a Second Class Upper in the British system. We do not use conversion tables for foreign grades. All foreign education is individually evaluated during the admission process.
Please note that eligible applicants who fulfill the minimum grade requirement will compete for a study place. Please see the section on ranking for more information on selection criteria.
The required specialization consists of 120 ECTS credits where the following, or equivalent, courses are included:
- MAT1100 – Calculus
- MAT1110 – Calculus and Linear Algebra
- MAT1120 – Linear Algebra
- One of the following courses:
- IN1900 – Introduction to Programming with Scientific Applications/INF1100 – Introduction to programming with scientific applications (continued)
- IN1000 – Introduction to Object-oriented Programming/INF1000 – Introduction to object-oriented programming (continued)
- MAT-INF1100 – Modelling and Computations (discontinued)
- MAT-INF1100L – Programming, Modelling and Computations (continued)???????/MAT-IN1105 – Programming, Modelling and Computations (discontinued)
- BIOS1100 – Introduction to computational models for Biosciences (continued)
- IN-KJM1900 – Introduction to Programming for Chemists
- GEO-KJM1040 – Introduction to programming with applications in geosciences and in chemistry (discontinued)
- 80 ECTS credits within at most two of the fields of astrophysics, bioscience, chemistry, computer science and informatics, geoscience, mathematics, materials science, mechanics and physics.
- 40 of these 80 ECTS credits have to be advanced undergraduate cour