Photo: Jørn Hagerup
The Department of Informatics (Ifi) was established in 1977 when parts of the Mathematics department and Physics department merged and formed a new department. Ifi is the oldest and largest informatics department in Norway.
The Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo (UiO) has approximately 250 employees and 1500 students and is the largest ICT unit for research and higher education in Norway. The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) ranks ICT research at UiO as no. 1 in the Nordic region, no. 6 in Europe and no. 48 worldwide.
As of 2011, the Department of Informatics will be located in a new Computer Science building at UiO. This building with its laboratories and education facilities is the largest ICT investment in Norway ever. The building and its surroundings represent a new university campus within short walking distance of the rest of the University and the Oslo University Hospital.
All Masters’ programs at the Department of Informatics are international, and approximately 50% of the PhD-students (total number approximately 220) are from outside of Norway. The Department has more than 60 partners in industry and the public sector, and research is conducted in cooperation with numerous research groups around the world.