The faculty is one of eight faculties at the University of Oslo. On admission to the Dr. Programme the doctoral candidate is affiliated to one of these departments. Although the description below focuses on the Dr. Degree, the essential features of the Dr.
Degree is the same.
It is still possible to take the older degree Dr. The aim of the doctoral degree programmes is to train and recruit researchers for posts at universities, colleges and other institutions in society that makes great demands on scientific methods of work and insight. The central element of the programme consists of critical and individual research into a special field, to be concluded in a doctoral dissertation. The instructions are normally given in Norwegian. The doctoral programme is concluded with a public lecture on one given and one chosen subject, and a disputation defending the doctoral dissertation.