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Vestfold University College ( no, Høgskolen i Vestfold, abbreviated as HiVe) was a
university college In a number of countries, a university college is a college institution that provides tertiary education but does not have full or independent university status. A university college is often part of a larger university. The precise usage varies ...
in the county of
Vestfold og Telemark Vestfold og Telemark (; ) is a county under disestablishment in Norway. The county is the southernmost one of Eastern Norway and consists of two distinct and separate traditional regions: the former counties of Telemark and (most of) Vestfold. T ...
,
Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...
. The university college's campuses were formerly located in Borre and Eik. From 2010 the whole university college was co-located at Campus Bakkenteigen in Horten. It was established 1 August 1994 by the merger of three previous university colleges ( Eik Normal School, Vestfold College Center, and Vestfold Nursing College), and has approximately 4,000 students and 450 employees. The university college has four faculties: Humanities and Education, Health Sciences, Business and Social Sciences, and Technology and Maritime Sciences. The college merged with
Buskerud University College Buskerud University College ( no, italic=yes, Høgskolen i Buskerud or ''HiBu'') was a university college established 1 August 1994 and situated in Viken county, Norway. It merged with Vestfold University College on 1 January 2014 to form Buskerud ...
on 1 January 2014 to create Buskerud and Vestfold University College.


Study programmes in English

As of 2007, one 30 ECTS course is offered in English, "''A Norwegian Cultural Journey''". From 2010 a PhD program in applied micro- and nanosystem technologies is offered in English.


References

University of South-Eastern Norway Defunct universities and colleges in Norway Education in Vestfold og Telemark Organisations based in Horten Educational institutions established in 1994 1994 establishments in Norway 2014 disestablishments in Norway {{Norway-university-stub