The University of Oslo and the International Summer School have a number of partner universities around the world. Tuition fee and participation fee are waived for exchange students from these partner institutions. However, exchange students are still required to cover accommodation costs.
Exchange students can only apply for our 4-week BA and MA courses (10 ECTS), but not for the 6-week Norwegian courses.
Before applying as an exchange student, you must be nominated by your home university. Contact your home university for information on how to receive a nomination for summer exchange.
Who can apply
The following universities can nominate their students:
- King's College London
- Yonsei University
- Nanyang Technological University
- National University of Singapore
- The University of British Columbia
- University of Toronto
- McGill University
- University of California, San Diego
- University of Washington
- Universidad de Chile
- Griffith University
- Macquarie University
- The University of Western Australia
- University of Melbourne
- University of New South Wales
- University of Sydney
- The University of Queensland
- The University of Auckland
Students from Circle U. universities are also exempt from paying the tuition fee and the participation fee. Please contact iss@admin.uio.no for more information.
About the application process
The International Summer School's partner universities will receive an email with nomination instructions and a link to the online nomination form. Nominated exchange students from these partner universities will then receive an email from the International Summer School with application instructions.
Nomination deadline for the partner universities: February 15, 2026
Application deadline: March 1, 2026