Study in Trondheim
Trondheim is known for student life that moves through the city like a current, filling the streets with fresh ideas, big ambitions, and the kind of energy you can feel.
More than a place to study.
With more than 40,000 students in the region, Trondheim brings world-class education, research, industry, nature, culture, and community into one compact city. Here, there are big opportunities, and room to make your mark.
UKA, Trondheim. Foto.samfundet.no
Small city. Big student energy.
In Trondheim, student life spills into everything. Campuses stretch across the city, yet you’re never far from anything. You can bike from lecture to lab to a student-run concert in under ten minutes. World-class tech communities sit beside historic wooden houses. The same people studying in labs are launching startups, running festivals, and filling Samfundet on a Friday night.
This city runs on curiosity, collaboration, and a little late-night ambition. Compact enough to feel personal. Ambitious enough to feel global. Trondheim runs on student initiative, and once you’re here, you’re part of the current.
40,000 students bring energy to every corner of the city.
From student-run festivals and volunteer organizations to packed nights at Samfundet, Trondheim’s student culture is one of the city’s strongest forces. It gives students more than a social life. It gives them a way to take part.
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World-class technology and innovation close to student life
With powerhouses, NTNU and SINTEF at its core, Trondheim has long been a driving force in Norwegian research, technology and innovation, giving students access to ideas, environments, and opportunities that reach far beyond the classroom.
Jonas Follesø, Blueye Robotics. Photo: Nikol Herec
SINTEF ZEB laboratory at Gløshaugen in Trondheim
Nobel Prize-winning research, ideas with global reach
In Trondheim, students study close to Nobel Prize-winning research, 5,000 researchers and lecturers, and an international student community of 3,800. It’s a city where learning connects naturally to bigger ideas, global perspectives, and the people shaping what comes next.
SFF QuSpin Center for Quantum Spintronics. Photo: Geir Mogen/NTNU,
Brattøra, Trondheim. Photo: Nikol Herec
Frostabåten Munkholmen. Photo: Lars Bugge Aarset/Fremtidens Industri
Home to UKA & ISFiT, Norway's largest student-run festivals.
Trondheim’s student culture reaches far beyond campus, from UKA to ISFiT and the communities built around them. Through festivals, volunteering, societies, events, and creative projects, students help shape the rhythm, culture, and energy of the city.
Official Enrollment Ceremony 2023, UKA. foto.samfundet.no
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Student Peace Prize ceremony. foto.samfundet.no
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Study in the heart of a knowledge city
Trondheim is home to NTNU and SINTEF, together forming one of Europe’s strongest research communities. The city has long been a driving force in Norwegian technology and innovation, with strengths spanning science, engineering, sustainability, health, and entrepreneurship.
The Journal
Meet the students shaping Trondheim
David Phan, TomatoSharp
"We're both studying medicine at NTNU and running TomatoSharp."
David Phan, TomatoSharp
"We're both studying medicine at NTNU and running TomatoSharp."
A medical student develops an obsession with Japanese knife sharpening during the pandemic. His girlfriend starts helping with the marketing. Their friends get involved. At some point there's a one-square-metre shed, a grandfather's workbench, and a bicycle carrying kitchen knives across Trondheim. Somehow, this becomes a business.
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The extracurricular that left Earth
McKenna Starck
The extracurricular that left Earth
Freider came to NTNU for an engineering degree and got a little sidetracked by Orbit, SpaceX, and the small matter of building a national network that is already shaping the next generation of Norway’s space industry.
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A bigger room for sharp ideas
McKenna Starck
A bigger room for sharp ideas
A year after we first met the students behind tomatosharp, we went back to see what became of their slightly unlikely idea. Turns out, giving craftsmanship, curiosity and a good set of sharpening stones a little room to grow can lead somewhere interesting.
Read moreDeep student traditions
Trondheim’s student traditions run deep, but they are anything but stiff. They spill into festivals, parades, songs, costumes, late nights, volunteer work, and the kind of shared humor that makes the whole city feel in on the joke.
Dive into student life
ISFiT 1990. Photo: Foto.samfundet.no
The student essentials
StudyTrondheim is the network working to make Trondheim an even better place to study, live, volunteer, work, and build a future.
Led by students and connected to educational institutions, welfare services, local authorities, and industry partners, the network brings together the people and initiatives shaping student life in the city. From temporary housing support to Workation and career connections, StudyTrondheim is a useful place to start if you want to get closer to what is happening for students in Trondheim.
A city designed for student life
Trondheim is big enough to open doors, but small enough that you can actually walk through them. Campus, the city and the people you meet along the way tend to overlap, making it easier to find your footing and build a life here.
