Gløshaugen is a neighborhood in the city of
Trondheim
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in
Trøndelag
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county,
Norway
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. It is located in the borough of
Lerkendal
Lerkendal () is a borough in the city of Trondheim in Trøndelag county, Norway. The borough was established on 1 January 2005 in a municipal borough reform that reduced the number of boroughs in the city. The borough of Østbyen lies to the ...
, approximately southeast of
Midtbyen, the downtown center of Trondheim. It is situated east of the neighborhood of
Elgeseter, west of
Singsaker, and north of
Lerkendal
Lerkendal () is a borough in the city of Trondheim in Trøndelag county, Norway. The borough was established on 1 January 2005 in a municipal borough reform that reduced the number of boroughs in the city. The borough of Østbyen lies to the ...
.
Gløshaugen is the site of NTNU Gløshaugen, the main campus and buildings of the
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
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(NTNU). It was the previously the site of the
Norwegian Institute of Technology
The Norwegian Institute of Technology ( Norwegian: ''Norges tekniske høgskole'', NTH) was a science institute in Trondheim, Norway. It was established in 1910, and existed as an independent technical university for 58 years, after which it was ...
(NTH) which became a part of the NTNU merger. Most of the university
science
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Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for ...
and
engineering
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buildings are located at Gløshaugen.
Gallery
Gamle fysikk NTNU.JPG, ''Gamle fysikk''
old Physics Building at NTNU Gløshaugen
Vannkraftlaboratoriet NTNU.JPG, ''Vannkraftlaboratoriet''
Hydropower Laboratory at NTNU Gløshaugen
Infohuset NTNU.JPG, ''Infohuset''
former Head Masters House at NTNU Gløshaugen
NTNU Trondheim Mainbuilding.jpg, ''Hovedbygningen''
main building at NTNU Gløshaugen
Byggteknisk NTNU.JPG, ''Byggteknisk''
Building Technology building at NTNU Gløshaugen
References
External links
NTNU Gløshaugen website*
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Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Geography of Trondheim
University and college campuses in Norway
Neighbourhoods of Trondheim
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