Research personnel

Updated: 26 October 2023

Next update: Not yet determined

Share of female professors in higher education sector

2022

35.7

per cent

R&D full-time equivalents (FTE), researchers
	Full-time equivalents (FTE), researchers	Change in FTE, researchers (percentage)
All sectors	38 971	40 099	2.9
Business enterprise sector	17 321	18 385	6.1
Institute sector	7 004	7 103	1.4
Higher education sector	14 646	14 611	-0.2
2022 numbers for the business enterprise sector are preliminary.

Selected tables and charts from this statistics

Table 1Doctoral degrees by awarding institution, last 5 years.

Doctoral degrees by awarding institution, last 5 years.
	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
Total	1 564	1 583	1 634	1 601	1 562
University of Bergen	226	229	242	245	220
University of Oslo	468	483	497	428	424
Norwegian University of Science and Technology	397	377	406	412	399
UiT - The Arctic University of Norway	118	120	117	132	121
Norwegian University of Life Sciences	87	101	66	86	68
University of Stavanger	50	62	74	52	60
University of Agder	37	41	51	44	43
Nord University	30	25	18	28	34
Oslo Metropolitan University	36	36	31	49	45
University of South-Eastern Norway	25	34	29	27	36
Molde University College - Specialized University in Logistics	4	7	6	2	5
NHH Norwegian School of Economics	19	17	13	17	19
The Oslo School of Architecture and Design	2	3	7	8	6
MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society	8	7	4	4	6
Norwegian School of Sport Sciences	17	11	11	11	8
Norwegian Academy of Music	3	2	7	4	10
BI Norwegian Business School	15	7	7	11	6
Oslo National Academy of the Arts	0	6	7	1	4
VID Specialized University	4	4	10	8	12
Volda University College	0	0	0	1	4
Western Norway University of Applied Sciences	0	1	6	10	15
Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences	18	10	25	21	17

Source

StatBank source table 13521

Table 2R&D personnel by sector and year

Source

StatBank source table 13520

Table 3R&D full-time equivalents (FTE) by sector and year

R&D full-time equivalents (FTE) by sector and year
	Higher education sector	Institute sector	Business enterprise sector	Total
2013	12 715	9 449	16 371	38 535
2014	13 010	9 355	17 932	40 297
2015	13 952	9 370	19 087	42 409
2016	14 937	9 365	19 616	43 918
2017	15 675	9 355	21 205	46 235
2018	16 237	9 385	20 979	46 602
2019	16 957	9 587	22 178	48 722
2020	16 126	9 731	23 090	48 947
2021	17 994	10 187	23 745	51 926
2022	18 021	10 361	25 157	53 539
2022 numbers for the business enterprise sector are preliminary.

Source

StatBank source table 13511

Table 4Researchers and academic personnel by sector of performance, immigration category and year

Researchers and academic personnel by sector of performance, immigration category and year
	2007	2010	2014	2018	2021
All sectors
Total	26 626	29 677	31 743	36 242	39 276
Immigrants	4 932	6 587	8 113	10 722	12 745
Norwegian-born to immigrant parents	96	119	127	190	269
The rest of the population	21 694	23 090	23 630	25 520	26 262
Institute sector
Total	6 861	7 506	7 414	7 332	7 864
Immigrants	1 154	1 599	1 860	2 096	2 492
Norwegian-born to immigrant parents	..	..	..	..	41
The rest of the population	5 707	5 907	5 554	5 236	5 331
Higher education sector
Total	17 494	18 574	20 078	23 915	26 046
Immigrants	3 356	4 352	5 382	7 559	9 146
Norwegian-born to immigrant parents	..	..	..	..	145
The rest of the population	14 138	14 222	14 696	16 356	16 755
Health enterprises
Total	2 271	3 597	4 251	4 995	5 366
Immigrants	422	636	871	1 067	1 107
Norwegian-born to immigrant parents	..	..	..	..	83
The rest of the population	1 849	2 961	3 380	3 928	4 176

Source

StatBank source table 13920

Research personnel

Article / 10 May 2023
Every third researcher in Norwegian academia is an immigrant
Immigrants made up 32 per cent of researchers and academic personnel in academia in 2021. Most of them had their background from Europe, while one in four were from Asia. About half of the researchers in natural sciences and engineering were people with an immigration background in 2021.