PhD Courses at the Faculty of Education and International Studies (LUI)

Application deadlines

Ordinary application deadlines are:

• For courses starting in autumn: 1 June
• For courses starting in spring: 15 October

Some courses may have other application deadlines. See the website for your course.

Supplementary admission

If there are still available study places after the application deadline, the admission portal (Søknadsweb) will be open again two weeks after the original application deadline. First come, first served rules will be applied.

Admission requirements

For information regarding admission requirements, please see the individual course pages. 

If you have previously taken a PhD course in the PhD programme in Educational Sciences for Teacher Education, you should still have the admission and can apply via Studentweb (student.oslomet.no). If you have problems with applying, please contact us at phd-lui@oslomet.no.

If you are a first time applicant, please follow this recipe:

1. Register your application in Søknadsweb (fsweb.no).
2. Upload the required documentation in Søknadsweb.

Documentation requirement

See which category you belong to and what documentation you need to upload in Søknadsweb.

In a PhD programme at OsloMet

No documentation requirement. Please include a link to your staff page in the comments field in SøknadsWeb.

In a PhD programme outside OsloMet (at a Norwegian university)

• Confirmation from your PhD programme containing: Name of the PhD programme, institution, and the month and year you started.
• Final diploma/Degree certificate (master' s level). Does not apply to applicants with a master's degree from OsloMet.
• Transcript / mark sheets (master' s level). Does not apply to applicants with a master's degree from OsloMet.
• Workplace: Link to your “staff” page at your University/University College: to be written in the comments field in Søknadsweb

An Academic Employee at OsloMet

• Final diploma/Degree certificate (bachelor's and master' s level). Does not apply to applicants with a master's degree from OsloMet.
• Transcript / mark sheets (bachelor's and master' s level). Does not apply to applicants with a master's degree from OsloMet.
• Please include a link to your staff page in the comments field in SøknadsWeb.

An Academic Employee at a university other than OsloMet (at a Norwegian university)

• Final diploma/Degree certificate (bachelor's and master' s level). Does not apply to applicants with a master's degree from OsloMet.
• Transcript / mark sheets (bachelor's and master' s level. Does not apply to applicants with a master's degree from OsloMet.
• Workplace: Link to your “staff” page at your University/University College: to be written in the comments field in Søknadsweb

Other applicants

• Verification of identity (copy of passport, attestation from the National Population. Does not apply to applicants with a master's degree from OsloMet.
• Final diploma/Degree certificate (bachelor's and master' s level). Does not apply to applicants with a master's degree from OsloMet.
• Transcript / mark sheets (bachelor's and master' s level). Does not apply to applicants with a master's degree from OsloMet.
• Workplace: Link to your “staff” page at your University/University College: to be written in the comments field in Søknadsweb.

It is mandatory to do all steps within the application deadline. Applications without required documentation will not be processed. 

After you have been offered a place on a PhD course, you get a separate IT account which gives you access to e-mail, Canvas, Studentweb, all computers at the university, wireless network and access to a number of tools and services at OsloMet. The IT account must be activated before you can access services and systems.

You receive e-mail and SMS with activation information about a week before the start of your studies. Use this information to activate your IT account.

The activation consists of five simple steps:

• Go to the access page (tilgang.sikt.no) - Select "Activate account"
• Enter your username (s+your student number, e.g. s123456) and activation password
• Accept OsloMet's safety instructions
• Create your own personal password, use a minimum of 16 characters
• Activate two-factor authentication (student.oslomet.no)

If you have started a course and are employed at the same time, you have both an employee and student account. See point about double user account below.

Canvas is a learning platform where you can find information and resources. To access the teaching room in Canvas, you must do the following depending on which category of student you are:

Individual course student who has been a student at OsloMet before

Log in with the user account you already have. 

Individual course student who has not been a student at OsloMet

You must activate your user account. After you have been offered a study place, you will receive an e-mail from the IT service desk about this.

On Studentweb (fsweb.no) you can see which courses you are registered for. Here you can also withdraw from the exam, find your candidate number and see the examination grade.

As a student on PhD courses, you do not have to pay semester fees.

In our syllabus list system, Leganto (exlibrisgroup.com), you can find the syllabus list by searching for the course code.

In the Lecture schedules system TP (tp.educloud.no) you can see the schedule for all PhD subjects.

For some students, some of the teaching will be digital. You will find information in your timetable and in Canvas (student.oslomet.no) about which teaching is physical and which is digital.

Zoom is one of the most used tools for digital teaching. Please install and familiarize yourself with the tool as soon as you have an active IT account. Read more about how we use Zoom in digital teaching at OsloMet (student.oslomet.no).

Useful links about exams

• Registration and withdrawal from the exam (student.oslomet.no).
• Home exams are delivered in Inspera (oslomet.inspera.no).
• Absence, illness and withdrawal from the exam (student.oslomet.no).
• Explanation for the determination of a grade (student.oslomet.no).
• Appeal a grade (student.oslomet.no).

Please remember that you must log in as a student in Inspera and Canvas (not with your employee user).

Participants who have completed and passed the course may obtain documentation themselves. You can order a transcript of grades on Studentweb (fsweb.no) or it can be obtained from Vitnemålsportalen (vitnemålsportalen.no). You can find more information about grade transcript and diploma on the student pages (student.oslomet.no).

If you have questions about PhD courses at the faculty, please contact us via e-mail: phd-lui@oslomet.no.