The University of Oslo (Universitetet i Oslo), founded in 1811, is Norway's largest, most internationally renowned and oldest comprehensive university.

It is located in Norway, the country with the highest per capita income in the world, the highest United Nations Human Development Index and the highest standard of living, and Oslo, the city with the most expensive consumption level in the world.

It was founded in 1811 by order of Frederick VI, the last king of the Danish-Norwegian alliance.

In honour of the king, the university was renamed the Royal Frederick University (Det Kongelige Frederiks Universitet) until 1939 and later the University of Oslo.

The University of Oslo is Norway's top academic and research university, and together with Uppsala University in Sweden, the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and the University of Helsinki in Finland, it is one of the four most famous comprehensive classical universities in the Nordic region.

The University of Oslo has an extensive academic presence among the world's universities, ranking 58th in the world and 19th in Europe in the 2015 Academic Ranking of Orld Universities.

The University of Oslo was the only university in the world to be eligible for the Nobel Prize. From 1947 to 1987, the annual Nobel Peace Prize was held in the academic atrium of the University of Oslo.

The University also has the power to award awards for the Abel Prize, the top award in mathematics.

The University currently has five Nobel laureates. Notable alumni also include Jens Stoltenberg, former Prime Minister of Norway and current NATO Secretary-General, Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Director-General of the World Health Organization, Turing Award winners Ollie John Dahl and Christen Negart, world-renowned mathematicians Nils Abel, Sophie Lee and Fields Medal winner Artel Selberg, world-renowned playwright Ibsen, and numerous Norwegian prime ministers and heads of government.

The University of Oslo is located in Oslo, the capital of the Nordic country of Norway.

It was founded in 1811 as the Royal Frederick University and changed to its current name in 1939. With nearly 40,000 students, 5,000 faculty and staff, and 3,000 international students, the University of Oslo is the largest university in Norway.

The University of Oslo currently has 8 faculties and 69 departments, as well as numerous botanical gardens, museums, collections, exhibition rooms, observatories, research institutes, laboratories, libraries, affiliated hospitals, and other institutions.

In its more than 200-year history, the University of Oslo has produced five Nobel laureates, two Turing Award winners, and one Fields Medal winner.

In addition, the University of Oslo has also produced the first Secretary-General of the United Nations, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, the Secretary-General of NATO, the Prime Minister of Norway, the King and other outstanding figures in society.

The University of Oslo is one of the best universities in Scandinavia and the top in Norway.

In its more than 200-year history, countless academic masters and celebrities have made outstanding contributions to Norway and the international community.

In the 2015 Academic Ranking of World Universities, the University of Oslo was ranked 58th in the world, 19th in Europe and 1st in Norway. In Weber Mattrix.com's 2017 World Cyber University Rankings, the University of Oslo was ranked 83rd in the world.

The University of Oslo has a broad academic presence in the econometrics community. It is not only the alma mater of Lonner Frisch, the first Nobel laureate in economics and the founder of econometrics, but also the alma mater of Treve Havemer, a master of mathematical economics and winner of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Economics.

Currently, the Faculty of Economics at the University of Oslo is the largest department in the Faculty of Sociology and has produced many well-known politicians and economists for Norway. It is also a major academic center for economics research in the Nordic region, with countless scholars visiting it every year.

The mathematics discipline at the University of Oslo also has a wide influence around the world. It is the alma mater of the genius mathematician Nils Henrik Abel, who gave the general algebraic equations above the fourth power without algebraic solution proofs, and also trained Sophie Lee, the pioneer of Lie group algebra, and Artel Selberg, a master of analytic number theory and a Fields Medal winner.

The Centre for Applied Mathematics (CMA), a research ---centre of excellence in the Department of Mathematics, is one of the leading research institutes in applied mathematics in Scandinavia, contributing to Norway's subsea drilling, energy development, and shipbuilding.

In addition to being an academic leader in the fields of econometrics and mathematics, the University of Oslo is also renowned for its research in computer science.

Ollie Johann Dahl and Christen Negart, professors at the Department of Information at the University of Oslo and winners of the Turing and Von Neumann Prizes, are the inventors of Simula, the world's first object-oriented programming language.

The advent of Simula ushered in the era of object-oriented (OO) programming languages. C++ and Java, which became popular since then, are languages designed based on Simula's object-oriented ideas.

In their honor, the computer research laboratory at the University of Oslo was named Simula, and it is one of the most famous computer research centers in the Nordic region.

As one of Norway's top universities and one of the Nordic region's leading universities, the University of Oslo has a rich history and many historical attractions throughout its more than 200-year history.

One of the most famous attractions of the University of Oslo is the academic atrium (i.e. law school) designed by the famous Prussian architect Carl Friedrich Schinkel in the 19th century.

Behind its magnificent Greek-style giant portico are the treasures of the Norwegian royal family, as well as the university's historical treasures. To the left and right of the academic atrium are the University Showroom and the National Exhibition Hall.

The former displays gold, silver and art from the Vikings to the Middle Ages. The latter mainly displays famous paintings, carvings and lithographs from various periods in Norway.

Across from the academic atrium, Karl Johan Strasse is also home to state institutions such as the Royal Palace, the Parliament House and the Grand Theatre. It is the main commercial street on the central axis of Oslo, which encapsulates the history of Oslo and the national imprint of Norway.

Every year on 17 May, people dressed in medieval costumes march through Karl Johan Strasse to the Norwegian Royal Palace to be greeted and celebrated by the King, the annual Norwegian National Day.

The University of Oslo is home to five museums, a botanical garden, and a medieval manor.

The five museums are the Museum of Cultural History, the Museum of Natural History, the Museum of the History of Universities and Sciences, the Museum of Geography and the Museum of Zoology.

The Natural History Museum, founded in 1814, is the largest natural history museum in Norway and is located next to the Botanical Gardens of the University of Oslo. The botanical garden is beautifully landscaped and fragrant with birds and flowers. The botanical garden is also home to the University of Oslo's Museum of Geography and Zoology.

Founded in 1665 by King Christian V of Denmark and Norway, Baroniet Rosendal is located in the Norwegian county of Hodaland and is surrounded by mountains and majestic fjord views.

The estate was donated to the University of Oslo in 1927 and is a great place to learn about Norwegian history from the Danish period to the early 20th century.