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) Vestfol ...

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, 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 ...

. 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 on 1 January 2014 to create

Buskerud and Vestfold University College Buskerud and Vestfold University College ( no, Høgskolen i Buskerud og Vestfold, HBV) was a regional university college with campuses in Drammen, Kongsberg, Hønefoss and Horten in the counties of Vestfold og Telemark and Viken (county), Viken, ...

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