The Faculty of Education and Arts

The Faculty of Education and Arts is Nord University's largest faculty. The academic profile includes teacher education, humanities and the aesthetic disciplines.

Study programmes

Research

About the faculty

Programmes and courses

The Faculty of Education and Arts at Nord University offers a wide range of education, including primary teacher, pre-school teacher, postgraduate teaching, sports, art and music education. The complete list of study programmes at the faculty is availble here (in Norwegian only). 

Only a few of these are available for international students. See the list of international programmes and courses for Nord University. 

Do you have any questions about our study programmes?
Find the right person in our list of international coordinators.

Research

The faculty's research is related to the teaching profession, the arts and humanities. 
Themes include flexible learning, the teacher as a bearer of culture, special needs education, didactics of mathematics and mathematics education, and literacy.

Research centres

The Centre for Practical Knowledge
The Centre for Pedagogical Entrepreneurship

About the faculty

The Faculty of Education and Arts was formally established on January 1 2017 after restructuring at Nord University.
The faculty has about 3346 students at four study locations: Vesterålen, Bodø, Nesna and Levanger.

Dean: Egil Solli
Vice Dean of Research: Lars Kirkhusmo Pharo
Vice Dean of Education: Geir Berg-Lennertzen 

Faculty Director:  Olav Frigaard
Office Manager - Education: Sølvi Fastvold
Office Manager - ​Finances: Bjørn Heistad





 Dean

 Faculty Director

 Vice Dean of Research

 Vice Dean of Education