List of Academic Ranks - Norway

Norway

Elected or appointed faculty positions:

  • Rektor (rector; one per university; usually assisted by a prorektor and sometimes one or more viserektor)
  • Dekan (dean; one per faculty; sometimes assisted by a prodekan and deans with a specific responsibility, e.g. research or student affairs). Male deans were formerly called dekanus, and female deans dekana.

Professorial ranks:

  • Professor (full professor)
  • Professor emeritus (males) or professor emerita (females). Retired professor; title conferred to all former full professors, regardless of how they are currently employed.
  • Professor II (part time professor; professors II are often full professors in another institution than the one in which they are professor II, or employed in other positions, for instance as a consultant at a university hospital)

Postdoctoral ranks:

  • Dosent (reader; abolished at universities in 1985 (when all readers became full professors), today mostly used in professional colleges)
  • Førsteamanuensis (associate professor)
  • Førstelektor (senior lecturer)
  • Postdoktor (senior research fellow; postdoctoral fellow)

Postgraduate ranks:

  • Amanuensis (assistant professor; rarely used in universities, somewhat more common in professional colleges)
  • Universitetslektor (university lecturer; lecturers in professional colleges are called høgskolelektor)
  • Stipendiat (research fellow)
  • Vitenskapelig assistent (research assistant; usually a graduate student)

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