The medical program at the University of Oslo is again the program in Norway with the highest admission requirements. With an average of 69.8 in the ordinary quota, places are tight. Nevertheless, Aleksei Önnesepp (20) has managed what few others can. – Since the first day at secondary school, I have done everything to reach my goal. I have dreamed of becoming a doctor since I was eight or nine years old, he says. Spent many hours reading Aleksei came to Norway from Estonia with his family in 2018. The family moved to improve the study opportunities for him and his sister. After a year in an introductory class, where he was helped to learn Norwegian, he started studying specialist studies at Jessheim upper secondary school. Aleksei says that he has spent up to four hours on schoolwork after school every day. – I had no backup plan. It became a motivator throughout high school. Aleksei is looking forward to studying. Photo: Erlend Dalhaug Daae / NRKA Aleksei is looking forward to studying. Photo: Erlend Dalhaug Daae / news Decrease in the number of applicants In 2022, 12.5 per cent fewer applied for higher education. The number of applicants is thus back to the level from before the pandemic. – Unemployment is at a record low, and the world has opened up again. We see that again in the applicant numbers, which are now back at the levels from before the pandemic, says Research and Higher Education Minister Ola Borten Moe. The exception is the long professional studies, such as medicine and psychology, where there is still high competition for study places. – It is the medical studies that are the most difficult to get into, says director of the Directorate for Higher Education and Skills Sveinung Skule. Source: Coordinate admissions. Makes more offers than study places It has been 17 years since so many people were offered a study place at their first choice in Norway. A total of 105,216 applicants have been offered study places, spread over 62,500 study places. The educational institutions thus provide more offers than there are study places. The reason is that the universities and colleges experience that many applicants who receive offers do not respond, do not show up, or decline. The education area with the most applicants is health sciences, where 19,818 applicants have received an offer. Over 10,000 have applied to study nursing as their first choice. This amounts to almost 8 per cent of all applicants. Next to dentistry, medicine is the education type within the health professions that experiences the lowest decline in the number of first-choice applicants. Highest admission requirements in Norway This year, the University of Oslo has 16 study programs that require more than 60 credits for admission. The point limits for medicine, dentistry and psychology continue to increase here. Bjørn Stensaker is vice-chancellor at the university and says that they are both proud and sad about the high demands. Vice Chancellor Bjørn Stensaker at UiO says the university is both sad and proud of the high average of applicants. Photo: Jarli & Jordan / Jarli & Jordan/UiO – We are proud in a way, because we have attractive study programs that students are happy to attend. At the same time, we see that there are many students who do not get their first wish fulfilled. Stensaker explains that this has to do with the finances of the university, and then limited admission places. – We simply do not have enough teachers and professionals to run a major study programme. With its 106 study programmes, UiO had 40,750 applicants. 11,448 have been offered a place to study in the autumn of 2022. Six years to go, Aleksei has not imagined anything other than studying medicine. The last four years of his life have therefore been dedicated to getting into his dream study. After four years of hard-hitting dedication, Aleksei gets to celebrate with six more years of even more study. Photo: Erlend Dalhaug Daae / news – Are you ready for six more years of education now? – Yes, I think it will be fun. I hope so. I am prepared to put in even more energy in the future.
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