Bachelor degree diploma or equivalent
In order to be eligible for master programmes at UiT, you need to document a bachelor degree of minimum three years. Depending on where you completed upper secondary education, you may be required to have more than three years of university education to be eligible for admission. Please see the GSU list.
You must scan and upload your official bachelor degree certificate and transcript. Also include transcripts for exchange semesters or transfer credits. Course description for relevant courses must be uploaded together with the transcript of records.
Official documents issued in a different language than English or a Scandinavian language must be translated into Norwegian or English. Upload the original documents together with the translated versions.
We use World Higher Education Database – WHED to search online whether the applicant's education is taken at an accredited institution of higher education.
For more information about general recognition of foreign education in Norway, please see Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills’s criteria for general recognition of foreign higher education.
UiT uses the ECTS scale when calculating your average grade.
Information regarding the ECTS credit system can be found here.
Information regarding the ECTS grading scale can be found here.
Degrees using the ECTS grading scale will be calulated with a weighted average, where a grade counts for more towards the average if the course has more credits.
For degrees using a grading scale that is not identical to that used at UiT, the applicant must be ranked on the basis of a discretionary assessment. We have internal guidelines for how to calculate such averages. Internal guidelines and the average grade will not be available for applicants. This assessment is only based on academic results, and other documentation will not be taken into consideration.
The minimum grade requirement for acceptance to most of UiT’s master programmes is an average grade of at least C (2,5). Note that some programmes do not have a grade requirement, and some require a hightened C (3,0). To see the average grade requirement for a programme see “Admission requirements” on the programme's page.
Note that a CGPA of 2,5 or 3,0 is not equivalent to a 2,5 or 3,0 in the ECTS scale.