Students will be required to consult with their UO academic advisers to carefully plan their academic programs for study in Bergen, and to assure that credits will be accepted by their departments upon return to Oregon. In Bergen, a Foreign Student Adviser and a Foreign Students' Social Secretary help University of Oregon students plan academic schedules and assist with cultural adjustments. Most courses are given only once a year, either in the spring or fall semester. Some courses are two semester sequences, most of these beginning in the spring and ending the following fall. It is not recommended to begin in the middle of such a course, and it is almost impossible to do so if laboratory work is included.
Many courses have prerequisites.
Because the University of Bergen teaches Norwegian language at the beginning level as well as a number of subjects in English, there is no language requirement for this program. Nevertheless, students are strongly encouraged to complete one year of Norwegian at the UO before joining this program . Students who want to study subjects taught in Norwegian normally complete a minimum of two years of Norwegian language before going to Bergen. Selection for the program is based on written recommendations, a personal interview, and a language proficiency evaluation by the UO professor of Norwegian. Students from other universities can participate in this program, but must be admitted to the UO before the exchange begins, and are expected to continue at the UO after completing a semester or year at the University of Bergen.