Sør-Trøndelag University College
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Sør-Trøndelag University College (Norwegian: Høgskolen i Sør-Trøndelag) or HiST is a Norwegian
university college
located in Trondheim
. The school offers higher education within nursing, teaching
, economics
, food science
, engineer
ing and information technology
. The college has six campus
es throughout the city and was created in 1994 as a merger between a number of independent colleges in the city.
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
university college
University college
The term "university college" is used in a number of countries to denote college institutions that provide tertiary education but do not have full or independent university status. A university college is often part of a larger university...
located in Trondheim
Trondheim
Trondheim , historically, Nidaros and Trondhjem, is a city and municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. With a population of 173,486, it is the third most populous municipality and city in the country, although the fourth largest metropolitan area. It is the administrative centre of...
. The school offers higher education within nursing, teaching
Teacher
A teacher or schoolteacher is a person who provides education for pupils and students . The role of teacher is often formal and ongoing, carried out at a school or other place of formal education. In many countries, a person who wishes to become a teacher must first obtain specified professional...
, economics
Economist
An economist is a professional in the social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy...
, food science
Food science
Food science is a study concerned with all technical aspects of foods, beginning with harvesting or slaughtering, and ending with its cooking and consumption, an ideology commonly referred to as "from field to fork"...
, engineer
Engineer
An engineer is a professional practitioner of engineering, concerned with applying scientific knowledge, mathematics and ingenuity to develop solutions for technical problems. Engineers design materials, structures, machines and systems while considering the limitations imposed by practicality,...
ing and information technology
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
. The college has six campus
Campus
A campus is traditionally the land on which a college or university and related institutional buildings are situated. Usually a campus includes libraries, lecture halls, residence halls and park-like settings...
es throughout the city and was created in 1994 as a merger between a number of independent colleges in the city.
Faculties
- Faculty of Health Education and Social Work, located at LeangenLeangenLocated in eastern Trondheim, Norway. Is mainly an industrial area, and the Leangen Ice Hall , IKEA as well as part of the Sør-Trøndelag University College college lies here....
- Faculty of Nursing, located at ØyaØyaØya is a location in Trondheim, Norway that is a peninsula in the river Nidelva, with Elgeseter to the east. The area is dominated by housing, but also features St. Olavs University Hospital as well as parts of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and Sør-Trøndelag University College....
- Faculty of Informatics and e-Learning, located at KalvskinnetKalvskinnetKalvskinnet is an area of Trondheim, Norway, southwest in city centre, Midtbyen bordering the river Nidelva in the south. In Sverris saga the place is called akeren. The city is dominated by public offices, including such institutions as the Norwegian University of Science and Technology,...
- Faculty of Teacher Education and Deaf Studies, located at RotvollRotvollRotvoll is an area of Trondheim, Norway located between Leangen to the west and Ranheim to the east. The area has some suburban housing and is otherwise dominated by the StatoilHydro research facility and Sør-Trøndelag University College campus for teacher education...
- Faculty of Technology, located at KalvskinnetKalvskinnetKalvskinnet is an area of Trondheim, Norway, southwest in city centre, Midtbyen bordering the river Nidelva in the south. In Sverris saga the place is called akeren. The city is dominated by public offices, including such institutions as the Norwegian University of Science and Technology,...
, Tunga and ØyaØyaØya is a location in Trondheim, Norway that is a peninsula in the river Nidelva, with Elgeseter to the east. The area is dominated by housing, but also features St. Olavs University Hospital as well as parts of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and Sør-Trøndelag University College.... - Faculty og Business Administration, Trondheim Business SchoolTrondheim Business SchoolTrondheim Business School or TØH is a faculty of Sør-Trøndelag University College in Trondheim, Norway that provides economics and business management education. The school was founded in 1967 as an independent university college, but in 1994 it and seven other university colleges in Trondheim...
, located at MoholtMoholtMoholt is an area of Trondheim, Norway south of Tyholt and north of Loholt. The area is dominated by housing, including a lot of student housing. There are also some supermarkets and commercial enterprises in the area, primarily because of the proximity to European route E6...