FAQ for local admission

Some study programmes have varying deadlines and you are yourself responsible to apply within the correct deadline. Read here about the different application deadlines.

The deadline to upload all your documents is the same as the application deadline.

I.e. for studies with the application deadline 15 April, you must upload your documents within 15 April.

Generally, you must upload all documents within the application deadline. Only few documents which are not available within this deadline, can be delivered after that. Check in the application portal søknadsweb under "my applications" to find the late documentation deadline relevant to your application.

If you are completing your bachelor's degree in the spring semester when you are applying for studies, you must document the current transcript of records within the date of application. The final bachelor's diploma with all results must be submitted within 1 July.

If you are taking a language test in the period of application, you must document that you are registered for the test within the application deadline, and upload the official results within 1 July for admission to PPU, master degrees and further studies.

Applicants to programmes which require work experience for admission, which have the application deadline 5 February, must upload all documentation within latest 10 February.

In order to apply for early admission, you must apply within 1 March and check the relevant box in the application portal. Note that it is not always possible to receive an early answer. Read more about early admission for local applicants.

It is possible to apply on the basis of prior qualification to several of our studies, if you do not have an education qualifying you for the study program through ordinare means. You must apply within 1 March to most programmes. Note that some programmes might have earlier deadlines. Read more about prior qualification.

The admission requirements are stated on each study programme's website, find the different study programmes here. Remember to also check information regarding documentation requirements and language requirements.

After you have checked the admission requirements for the study programme you wish to apply to, and which language the programme is taught in, we recommend you to read the information about documentation requirements. The required documents need to be uploaded to the application portal, Søknadsweb.

Yes, for applicants with foreign education there may be specific deadlines, language requirements or documentation requirements.

This may apply to you with high school education, higher education, or both from outside Norway. Read more information for applicants with foreign education.

Work experience must be documented with a work certificate from the employer. Read more about this under documentation requirements.

Remember to check that all dates, working hours, work title etc. are correct before you upload the document. You are responsible to note any mistakes which might give you less work experience than you actually have.

To calculate how much work you have documented, we need to see how long you have worked in the relevant position and calculate what this will equal in full-time work.

We calculate how many months you have worked in the position. After that we will multiply the number of months with the percentage of your position and divide by 100 (full-time percentage).

Example: You have documented working about 13,5 months in 80% position: 13,5 months in the position x 80% working position / 100 = 10,8 months in full-time position.

If the working position you currently hold at the application deadline is confirmed in the documentation to be your current position, and the documentation was written in the application year, we can calculate your work experience up until 31 July.

However, if there is a change of position before 31 July on the document, we will calculate until the end date of the position you are holding at the time the document was written. We cannot include new positions starting after the application deadline.

Yes, you can find this on our Norwegian website for the grade/point limits.

For ECTS grades, we are calculating a weighed average of all grades: A=5, B=4, C=3, D=2 and E=1.

All grades of the relevant degree for admission will be multiplied with the number of credits in the course. This sum will then be divided by the total amount of credits which were multiplied with the grades.

If your education uses a different grading system, read more about the conversion of results for local admission.

If we do not have a conversion for your grading scale, a discretionary evaluation will be performed. We recommend to attach the grading scale/diploma supplement of your university/college if a different grading system than the ECTS scale is used.

Several of our studies require a minimum grade average of C in the bachelor's degree. This refers to C in the ECTS-scale where A-E are passing grades and F is fail. If you have an education using a different grading scale (and your university does not have its own conversion to the ECTS-scale), we will have to calculate your grades into ECTS grades. For more information, see our website regarding conversion scales and calculation of the grade point average.

All courses of the degree that qualifies you will be included when we calculate your grade average. If it is a bachelor's degree that qualifies you, all courses of the degree will be included.

Make sure that your documentation shows the courses and grades which make up the degree.

If you have taken extra courses outside your bachelor's degree to be qualified for admission to a study programme, those courses will also be included when calculating the grade average.

No, not necessarily. We are calculating the average of the courses in your bachelor's degree and cannot switch out courses which are not approved in your degree.

If you have taken a course outside your degree or after you received your diploma, your institution must approve that this course corresponds with one of the courses in your degree. You must upload a confirmation from your institution regarding which course in your degree can be substituted with which course you have taken additionally.

For applicants with a Norwegian education background, the following applies:

For a diploma consisting of both grades and pass/fail, “pass” will be held outside the calculation of points.

For ranking of applicants with diplomas without numerical/letter grades, the grade is considered to be a pass as C = 3.

In the admission to master programmes, applicants with Norwegian educational background may receive supplementary points for:

• higher education that is not part of the admission criteria
• relevant work experience after completed bachelor degree
• student exchange during the degree qualifying you for admission.

This is specified in the Regulations concerning admission to studies and courses at the University of Stavanger.

The different programmes may in addition have their own supplementary points, this will be specified in the programmes' supplementary rules.
Remember that any certificate/letter documenting work experience must follow our documentation requirements.

No. If the programme you wish to apply for has a grade requirement of minimum a Norwegian C in the ECTS-scale, you need to meet the requirement with the exam results in your bachelor's degree. Supplementary points will not be included to meet the requirement.

If you have completed your bachelor's degree in Norway, we will not include the grades from exchange in your application points. Student exchange as a part of the degree qualifying you for admission may give supplementary points.

Please upload the transcript or other official documents to document the courses you have completed during the exchange, as well as the diploma and transcript from the bachelor's degree.

You must document that you meet the admission requirement to the study programme you are applying to. The receipt you receive by e-mail shortly after you apply, contains some information in this regard. The application receipt can also be found in Søknadsweb in "My Applications".

Documents must be uploaded to "My Documents" in Søknadsweb. (Not in Studentweb!) Read more about the required formats in documentation requirements.

Check which language the programme you want to apply to is taught in. Then you can find information regarding what to document on the website about language requirements.

Everyone must upload a passport or national ID.

In addition, if your qualifying degree is from Norway, you might be eligible for supplementary points - read more about them in the section above.

It means that you are ranking the programmes you are applying to according to which programme you most want to be admitted to. If you are offered admission to your first or second priority, you will not receive an offer for the programmes on lower priorities. It is therefore important to make sure to prioritize the programmes in your application.

You can change the order of the programmes you are applying to within 1 May for study programmes with the application deadline 15 April. It is not possible to add new programmes after the application deadline.

For study programmes with the application deadline 1 March or earlier, it is not possible to change the order after the application deadline.

Primarily it is your responsibility to upload the documentation that is relevant for your application within the deadline. Read more about the documentation .

But, we send an email if we can see that something is missing that may qualify you to the programme. There will be a deadline of around 1 week to upload the documents, so make sure to check the email you signed up with at least once every week from the time you registered the application.

When you receive your outcome depends on which study programme you apply to and within which deadline. Study programmes which require work experience in addition to a bachelor's degree, can send the outcome already in March/April.

All applicants will receive their answer within 25 July. However, often we send questions or admission offers before that. Check therefore that you are registered with an e-mail address you check regularly. There will be a deadline of around one week to upload any requested documents or reply to an offer.

If you have applied to different study programmes, you might receive your answers at different points.

Admission offers are sent out according to grade/points and in several rounds. It might be that you have a lower grade average, and therefore receive your answer at a later point.

Yes. But, if you accept the waiting list place and receive an offer before 25 July, you will lose the study place you first accepted.

If you receive an offer from 25 July and later, you can choose to keep the study place you accepted first, or to accept the new study place.

Yes, it is possible to change your answer. You need to send an e-mail to the admission office with your application number and explain what you want to change.

No - for now, the Søknadsweb is not connected to other study places in Norway. If you accept an offer from someone else, we appreciate if you let us know that you accepted a study place somewhere else and will not be starting at UiS this semester.

Contact masteropptak@uis.no or ppu-opptak@uis.no with your application number and let us know which programme you wish to withdraw from.

If you have already registered for the semester and paid the semester fee, you withdraw from your study place through the digital service desk. Here you can also apply for a refund of the semester fee.

Unfortunately we do not have a system that will update this automatically in Søknadsweb. It is possible to contact the admission office with the questions regarding waiting list and point limits for admission. Remember to include your application number and study programme.

An allocated student place may be reserved for the following year in connection with military service, childbirth, adoption or other significant grounds. See Regulations concerning admission to studies and courses at the University of Stavanger, Section 1-10.

The reason for reserving the study place must be circumstances outside of your own control, and not that you choose not to start the programme the year you receive an offer.

To apply for reserving your study place, you need to accept the place within the deadline, and send in an application for reservation within three weeks from when you receive the offer. This deadline does not apply if the reason for reservation occurs after the first three weeks, but it will need to be documented in the application and be sent in as soon as possible.

Application with documentation for reason for reservation must be sent to:
masteropptak@uis.no for admission to master programmes and further education
ppu-opptak@uis.no for admission to PPU 

The regulations for exams at the University of Stavanger specifies that the study right expires when you are admitted to a different programme at UiS, unless it is decided that the previous study right can still be valid.

Several faculties do not wish for their students to have multiple study rights. Students that wish to have multiple study rights must contact the Faculty or Institute as soon as possible to find an agreement.

Towards the end of July we will transfer study rights to the applicants that have accepted the study place. Some days after this, you will receive login-information from IT, if you have not previously been a student at UiS.

All courses that you have previously passed, and that are a part of the education plan for the study programme you have been admitted to, will be included in your plan.

If you have education at a different study place that you want to include in your new education plan, you need to apply for approval after admission to the programme. To do this, the education must be equal in content, scope and level to the courses at UiS.

If you wish to withdraw and have not registered as a student in Studentweb or paid the semester fee, you can email masteropptak@uis.no or ppu-opptak@uis.no (for PPU students), stating your application number and explain that you wish to withdraw from the (name of the programme).

If you have registered as a student, you can withdraw through the Digital service desk. You can also request refund of the semester fee.

Find information for new students on Start of Studies.

It is also possible to contact your study advisor if you have questions.