ECTS credits and grades
Credits
All credits (Norwegian: "studiepoeng") referred to in the ECTS Course Catalogue are ECTS credits based on student workload and in accordance with the guidelines of the European Commission. Consequently, individual courses may have from 5 to 30 ECTS credits, and the full workload for one semester is 30 ECTS credits. The full workload for the academic year is 60 ECTS credits.
Grades
The Norwegian grading scale (A-F) is a qualitative rather than a quantitative scale. It is expected, however, that the distribution of grades along qualitative criteria will vary only slightly from the quantitative ECTS grades given a large number of exams and in a time perspective of 3-5 years. The grades are awarded according to the following criteria:
| Symbol | Description | General, qualitative description of valuation criteria |
| A | Excellent | An excellent performance, clearly outstanding. The candidate demonstrates excellent judgement and a high degree of independent thinking. |
| B | Very good | A very good performance. The candidate demonstrates sound judgement and a very good degree of independent thinking. |
| C | Good | A good performance in most areas. The candidate demonstrates a reasonable degree of judgement and independent thinking in the most important areas. |
| D | Satisfactory | A satisfactory performance, but with significant shortcomings. The candidate demonstrates a limited degree of judgement and independent thinking. |
| E | Sufficient | A performance that meets the minimum criteria, but no more. The candidate demonstrates a very limited degree of judgement and independent thinking. |
| F | Fail | A performance that does not meet the minimum academic criteria. The candidate demonstrates an absence of both judgement and independent thinking. |
Contact
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