The Oslo School of
Architecture and Design
The Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) offers a
unique research-based education of international standing.
Established in 1945, today it maintains solid national funding,
international distinctions and prominent rankings. The school
promotes a studio-based environment with a low faculty to stu-
dent ratio of one to eight that encourages individual develop-
ment and collaboration.
AHO offers a five- or five-and-a-half-year master degree
to best equip the student to enter directly into professional
practice, research or advanced academic study. AHO awards
three degrees: Master of Architecture, Master of Landscape
Architecture and Master of Industrial Design. Within these
degrees students may specialise in the fields of architecture,
landscape architecture and urbanism, industrial design, inter-
action design, service design and systems oriented design.
The first three years of the programme are considered the
Foundation and the last two, or two and a half years, theMaster.
While AHO does not offer a bachelors degree, the Foundation
is accepted as an equivalent. After successfully completing the
Foundation, all AHO students are eligible for entry into the
AHOmasters programme or a masters programme at any other
university. The school offers post-professional masters pro-
FAcTS AnD STATiSTicS
Founded
1945
Rector
Karl Otto Ellefsen
Faculty and administration
120
Students
600
Faculty to student ratio
1:8
Male students
51%
Female students
49%
PhD fellows
45
international Master students
25%
international PhD fellows
50%
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