• NTNU has campuses in the three Norwegian cities of Trondheim, Gjøvik and Ålesund.
• The university has eight faculties and the University Museum, with a total of 52 departments.
• NTNU has 8 560 employees (2025).
• The university has 7 450 full-time equivalents (2025), of which 5 700 are academic positions. The full-time equivalents are evenly distributed between women and men.
• NTNU works in close collaboration with SINTEF, NTNU Social Research and St. Olav’s Hospital.
• The University Library has 14 library branches and 1.4 million annual visits.

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Students

• NTNU has the highest number of first-priority applicants among Norwegian universities, with 24 008 applicants, and recruits the most students nationally.
• The university has 43 507 registered students, about half within science and technology.
• Most students study in Trondheim (85 per cent), while 9 per cent study in Gjøvik and 6 per cent in Ålesund.
• Just over half of the students (53 per cent) are women.
• A total of 3 815 students (9 per cent) are international, representing 114 countries.
• In 2025, 9 175 students completed a bachelor’s or master’s degree.
• A total of 3 887 students are enrolled in further education programmes and experience-based master’s programmes (2025).

Education

• NTNU provides 70 per cent of Norway’s master’s education in technology.
• The university offers 507 study programmes, in addition to continuing and further education programmes.
• NTNU offers a broad range of subjects within natural sciences, humanities, social sciences, economics, medicine, health sciences, educational sciences, architecture, entrepreneurship, fine arts and artistic activities.
• NTNU educates the largest number of teachers in Norway and is the country’s largest institution within health sciences and the arts.
• Almost half of the students study science and technology subjects.

• NTNU doctoral candidates completed 504 doctoral degrees in 2025.
• The university participates in 653 projects in EU's framework programmes.
• NTNU has been awarded 46 ERC Grants from the European Research Council.
• The university has five Strategic Research Areas for the period 2024–2031.

NTNU is host institution or partner in:

• 3 Centres of Excellence
• 18 Centres for Research-based Innovation
• 13 Centres for Environment-friendly Energy Research

Innovation and commercialisation

• More than 2 400 ideas and 80 start-up companies have emerged from innovation projects.
• More than 400 projects have received over NOK 125 million since 2011.
  • The projects have led to the establishment of more than 110 companies.

• Budget: NOK 11 billion, of which NOK 7.8 billion comes from government funding and NOK 3.2 billion from other sources.
• Facilities (owned or rented) totalling 734 000 m².