• I am a student with an EU/EEA/Swiss passport

  I am a student with an EU/EEA/Swiss passport

  TUITION FEE

  NHH is publicly funded, and students from EU/EEA or Switzerland are therefore exempted from paying tuition fees.

  You are required to pay a small semester registration fee to the Student Welfare Organisation in Bergen (Sammen),  which allows you to benefit from their services. The amount is currently approximately NOK 910 per semester.

  PART TIME WORK

  EU/EEA or Swiss students do not need a work permit and may work in Norway after registering with the police.

  BUDGET AND LIVING COSTS

  To get an idea of the living expenses for students in Norway, please refer to one of these pages:

  • Reference Budget for Consumer Expenditures from Consumption Research Norway
  • the Visit Norway website

• I am a student with a non-EU/EEA/Swiss passport

  I am a student with a non-EU/EEA/Swiss passport

  To finance your studies and your stay in Norway, you will need a sound and realistic financial plan that covers the full length of your study period. 

  funds for study permit

  The Norwegian Directorate of Immigration (UDI) requires all citizens who are not EU/EEA/Swiss nationals to provide documentation of sufficient funds to cover tuition and living expenses for one academic year in Norway, as part of the study permit application.

  Sammen, the student welfare organisation in Bergen, has established a deposit account in a Norwegian bank, as part of their services to incoming international students. Details about the account is distributed in April.

  For the academic year starting in August 2025, you must transfer the following approximate amount, to cover tuition and living expenses for your first year (tuition fee for 2025/2026 to be confirmed):

  • Master’s programme: 331.690 NOK (151.690 NOK to cover living costs and approximately 180.000 NOK to cover tuition). 

  • Bachelor’s programme: 281.690 NOK (151.690 NOK to cover living costs and approximately 130.000 NOK to cover tuition).

  Note: In our formatting, the dot represents thousands.
  
  

  After arrival in Norway, you must establish a Norwegian bank account, and the deposit will be returned to you.

  When you re-new your study permit for the next academic year, you will again have to document towards UDI that you have the sufficient means available to cover living costs and tuition fee for the upcoming year. At this point you will have your own Norwegian bank account and should not transfer funds to the deposit account. 

  TUITION FEE

  Students who are not nationals of the EU/EEA or Switzerland are required to pay tuition fees. The tuition rates are as follows:

  2025/2026 Academic Year:

  To be confirmed

  2024/2025 Academic Year:

  • Bachelor's programme: 130.000 NOK per year
  • Master's programme: 180.000 NOK per year

  2023/2024 Academic Year:

  • Master's programme: 180.000 NOK per year

  The invoice for the tuition fee is sent to your student email address at the start of each semester. Payment deadlines are 1 September and 1 February.

  Please note: If your funds are in Sammen’s deposit account when you receive the first tuition fee invoice, you can forward the invoice to Sammen and request that they pay it from the deposit, on your behalf.  

  • Possible exemptions for paying the tuition fee

    Possible exemptions for paying the tuition fee

    POSSIBLE EXEMPTIONS FOR PAYING THE TUITION FEE

    Any student enrolled prior to August 2023 who continue their original study programme, as well as incoming exchange students, CEMS students and double degree students do not have to pay tuition.

    Full-degree students will be exempt if the following applies:

    • You have a permanent residence permit in Norway 
      You do not have to pay tuition fees if you have a permanent residence permit in Norway. It does not matter what the basis for your residence was previously.  

    • You have a residence permit due to protection (asylum) 
      You do not have to pay tuition fees if you have residence (asylum) in Norway due to protection, strong humanitarian considerations or a special connection to Norway.

    • You have a residence permit as a family member of an EU/EEA citizen
      You do not have to pay tuition fees if you have a residence permit as family member of an EU/EEA citizen. The EU/EEA citizen must have grounds for residence in Norway other than studying. 

    • You have a residence permit due to family immigration
      You do not have to pay tuition fees if you have a residence permit due to family immigration. The person with whom you have been reunited must either be a Norwegian citizen or a foreign national with a reason for residence in Norway other than studying. Furthermore, you do not have to pay tuition fees if you have gained a continued residence permit on an independent basis due to the Norwegian immigration act § 53. 

    • You are cohabiting and have children with a Norwegian citizen 
      You do not have to pay tuition fees if you are cohabiting with and have children with a Norwegian citizen. Both you and your cohabiting person must live in Norway. 

    • You are married to a Norwegian citizen
      You do not have to pay tuition fees if you are married to a Norwegian citizen or are the legal partner of a Norwegian citizen. Both you and your spouse or legal partner must live in Norway.  With legal partner we mean a person with whom you are married or have an equivalent official relation. 

    • You have worked in Norway for at least two years full-time 
      You do not have to pay tuition fees if you during a qualifying period of at least 24 months have had continuous full-time work in Norway, have been resident in and paid tax to Norway. 
      You must have had a residence permit as an employee during the earning period. There must be no gap during the accrual period or between the accrual period and further studies. However, exceptions can be made for stays of up to 1 year in the event of illness or childbirth. 

    • You have studied in Norway for at least three years full-time
      You do not have to pay tuition fees if you during an accrual period of at least 36 months have lived in and been in education in Norway and passed education equivalent to 3 years of full-time education. There must be no gap during the accrual period or between the accrual period and further studies. However, exceptions can be made for stays of up to 1 year in the event of illness or childbirth. During the qualifying period, you cannot have received support for the education from public education support schemes or Norwegian public support schemes for development. 

    • You are a UK citizen and moved to Norway before 31 December 2020
      During a transitional period that lasted until 2020, the United Kingdom was to be treated as if it were still a member of the EU and the EEA. If you are a citizen of the United Kingdom, who were entitled to reside in Norway in accordance with the EEA agreement before the end of the transition period (31.12.2020), you are exempt to pay tuition fees. You must also have stayed in Norway. If you came to Norway on 1 January 2021 or later, you are not exempt from paying tuition fees.

    The above listed exemptions coincide with the regulations for qualifying for support from Lånekassen.

    Exemptions are subject to change.

    APPLYING FOR EXEMPTION 

    If you are an incoming full-degree student, you will receive a letter with information about study permit application. In this letter you will also find a link to an application form where you can apply for an exemption, if you consider that you are eligible for this.

    If you have become eligible for an exemption after you started your studies, please send an email to admission@nhh.no for advice on how to proceed. 

  SEMESTER REGISTRATION FEE

  All students, regardless of the passport they hold, are required to pay a small semester registration fee to Sammen, the student welfare organisation in Bergen. This allows you to benefit from their services. The amount is currently approximately 910 NOK per semester. It must be paid by 1 September in the autumn semester, and by 1 February in the spring semester.  

  Budget and living costs

  To get an idea of the living expenses for students in Norway, please refer to 

  • Reference Budget for Consumer Expenditures from Consumption Research Norway
  • the Visit Norway Web site

  PART TIME WORK

  As a new international student in Norway, finding part-time work will be challenging. You can therefore not base your financial plan on finding employment, and need to arrive with the necessary financial security in place for the full length of your stay.

  Although the study permit allows you to work part-time, and you may be fortunate and find employment, please keep in mind that you are not guaranteed to find work, and that your main purpose of stay in Norway is to study.

  When you receive the study permit, you will normally also be issued a part-time work permit that allows you to work up to 20 hours per week, and full-time during the holidays. The immigration authorities will only renew your study permit and part-time work permit if your study progression has been satisfactory. 

  You may consult the web pages of the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration (UDI) for more information.

SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS

Since NHH Norwegian School of Economics is a publicly financed institution, it does not offer scholarships or other forms of financial support to students. Please contact your home university, the educational authorities or funding organisations in your home country to find out if you are eligible for funding.

You may also consult the Study in Norway website and The Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Education (Diku) for scholarship opportunities available from the Norwegian government.

For possibilities offered by the European Union, please check out the Erasmus+ webpage.