Students from the EU/EEA and Switzerland pay no tuition at public institutions, only a semester fee such as NOK 670 at UiT, while others pay – e.g. NOK 100,500–351,000 a year at UiT. The Study in Norway portal lists 11 universities, and EU/EEA citizens can work without restrictions. Find out what the official estimate of NOK 15,488 a month means for your budget and how to get student housing.
How long: 3 years of full-time research and study; most doctoral research fellows are employed for 4 years, with 25% of their time spent on duties such as teaching. Industrial PhD and public sector PhD schemes also exist.
Your status: you are an employee with a salary, social security, pension rights and parental leave.
How to get in: a two-year master's or a five-year integrated master's degree. Applications for PhD positions are formally job applications.
Where to look: doctoral positions and calls are published on the websites of universities and their doctoral schools and on EURAXESS, and on Jobbnorge. Programmes in Norway in our database: Norway – 109 doctoral programmes (as of September 2026) »
Sources: Eurydice – national description of third-cycle (PhD) programmes (updated 27 November 2023). As of October 2026.
Sources: European Commission – Study in Europe (education.ec.europa.eu/study-in-europe), Eurostat, official national study and residence portals and authorities, Eurodesk, enic-naric.net, studentnews.eu. As of September 2026.
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