A total of 1,878 doctorate degrees were issued by Norwegian institutions of higher education last year. That’s 28 more than the year before, which had set a record itself.
The majority of doctorate degrees awarded went to women, who collected 53 percent of the total and fully 60 percent of the PhDs awarded within medicine, health care and political science.
Men still took the majority of doctorates within technology, where just 33 percent of the doctoral candidates were women. They made up 45 percent of those awarded within math and sciences.
News bureau NTB reported that the number of foreign students earning doctorates in Norway has doubled since 2000, when around 20 percent of doctoral candidates were from abroad. Last year that number was up to 40 percent, with foreigners earning 66 percent of doctorates awarded within technology and 56 percent with math and sciences.
NewsinEnglish.no staff
