Facts about the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

• Founded in 1811 as a part of the Faculty of Philosophy.
• Founded as a Faculty in 1861
• Two Nobel laureates have their background from the Faculty, Odd Hassel, chemistry (1969) and Ivar Giæver, physics (1973)
• About 4330 students
• About 1000 academic staff
• About 800 doctoral students
• About 350 adminstrative and technical staff
• Yearly budget about 1450 million Norwegian kroner (approximately 182 million Euros)
• Area: 126 000 m², ¼ of UiO's total area, is used by the Faculty.
• 8 Departments
• 13 Bachelor's Programmes
• 21 Master's Programmes
• 2 Centres of Excellence (COE)
• 1 Centre of Excellence in collaboration with University of Tromsø
• 1 Centre of Research-based Innovation (CRI)
• 2 Nordic Centres of Excellence (NCoE)
• 10 Grants from the European Research Council (ERC)
• Coordinates 4 EU FP7 cooperation projects