Educational Sciences

Application process

To be admitted to the PhD programme, you must have secured funding—either by applying for an advertised position at the Faculty of Education and International Studies (LUI) or by obtaining funding through other means.

PhD positions at the faculty are usually advertised in the autumn.

For candidates with external funding, admission to the programme is on a rolling basis.

• Vacancies at LUI will be announced here: 
  • Job openings at OsloMet (English web page)
  • Job openings at OsloMet (Norwegian web page)
• General information about admission and funding at OsloMet (ansatt.oslomet.no)
• More about the application and admission process for Educational Sciences

Admission requirements

See admission requirements in the programme description (student.oslomet.no).

The programme facilitates research in areas where the university has a particular societal mandate and expertise. It therefore places particular emphasis on research in and on early childhood education, school, vocational education, international studies, interpreting and sign language. It shall contribute to the development of new knowledge of high quality and relevance for the professional education programmes and professions the faculty educates for. 

The knowledge shall provide the basis for constructive and critical scholarly assessment of society, education and education policy. 

The programme consists of a training component of 30 ECTS credits and a research component of 150 ECTS credits.

For more information about this PhD programme, take a look at the programme description (student.oslomet.no).

Candidates who were admitted before 2026 follow an older programme description. Read about the training component for these candidates under teaching and learning methods in the older programme description (student.oslomet.no).

For an overview of the programme structure, please see the section Structure in the programme description (student.oslomet.no).

We offer different courses depending on the semester.

See courses on offer, and read more about PhD courses at the faculty.

• PhD projects at the faculty (incomplete list)
• PhD candidates currently employed at the faculty
• Completed PhD defences at the faculty from 2019 and onwards
• Completed PhD defences at the faculty before 2019 (page in Norwegian)

The programme qualifies for research activities and other work requiring a high level of scientific reasoning, research methodology and analytical competence.

OsloMet offers career counseling to our PhD candidates (ansatt.oslomet.no).