The University Graduate Center

National External Quality Assurance Requirements

Initial institutional accreditation
gives universities and colleges certain rights to award national degrees or diplomas.
Programme accreditation
required for non-accredited university colleges on all levels and for university colleges or specialised university institutions that wish to establish a new doctoral or master programme outside their doctoral fields.
Audit
carried out at least once in 8 years. The right to self-accredit programmes is conditional upon a positive evaluation of the higher education institution's internal QA system (audit).
Further information on external quality assurance in Norway

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