Thank you to all our members and alumni that turned out for the NORAM Alumni Network’s first event on June 17th following NORAM’s 100 Year Celebration. It was a sunny Oslo evening with a great turnout of close to 50 attendees. It was excellent to see so many Alumni from schools such as Columbia... Read more »
Join the NORAM Alumni Network in hosting the book launch for author Kjetil Flatin’s En Reise i Vår Utdanningshistorie, Norsk-amerikansk akademikerutveksling. As NORAM celebrates its 100th anniversary, Flatin has donated his time and creativity to the organization to write about its century-long history. While the book tells NORAM’s story, it also describes the broader context... Read more »
The Fifth Week and Beyond Here’s a fun thing I learned today: through some strange, mathematical coincidence -40 degrees is the same in Fahrenheit and Celsius. So the statement “There’s -40 degree wind-chill waiting for you back in Minnesota” requires no conversion on the numbers front; anyone can hear it, understand it, and die a... Read more »
The Fourth Week The busyness of the weekend bled into Week Four as well, and most of the St. Olaf students spent Sunday grilling hotdogs and s’mores at Sognsvann, which is a lake near Oslo where people go to ski or walk around. It was a lovely place to talk and eat for a few... Read more »
The Third Week On Monday, January 14th, our professor returned to Minnesota and we continued with both our internships and exploration of Norwegian culture via self-supervised classes and activities. The former mostly involved rearranging and updating the NORAM website. I worked on filling up the English version of the site with equivalent pages to those... Read more »
The Second Week Monday of Week Two marked the start of our internships – a milestone I was exceedingly nervous about until around 15 minutes after I walked through the door and realized that everyone was nice and very knowledgeable and passionate about their work. As each student’s hours needed to total at least 90... Read more »
Hello. My name is Elizabeth Stang and welcome to my account of what it’s like to be an American studying in Norway. I am a Norwegian major and Film Studies concentrator currently taking NORW296 through St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN – a program which involves around a dozen students, including yours truly, interning at... Read more »
Thinking about studying in Norway but can’t speak the language? Don’t worry! There are plenty of universities all across Norway that offer both Bachelor’s and Master’s programs in English – here are a few of them: 1.- Norwegian University of Life Sciences Boasting beautiful nature and a short trip to Oslo, NMBU offers both Bachelor’s... Read more »
1.- It’s Free You read that right. With student debt at an all time high in the US, this might seem too good to be true, but Norway is one of few European countries that offers a university education with no tuition fees to non-EU citizens. 2.- It’s in English Having to learn a... Read more »
The Norway-America Association (NORAM) is a non-profit organization founded in 1919 that works to strengthen the bonds between Norway and North America through higher education. Since its inception, NORAM has awarded more than 5000 scholarships and worked with many high-profile Norwegians to achieve their academic dreams. Our goal is to provide sufficient funds for both... Read more »