The Oslo School of
Architecture and Design
The Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) offers a
unique research-based education of international standing. Es-
tablished in 1945, today it has built a solid national funding base
and is prominently ranked internationally.
In its master’s education, the school follows a studio-based
model with a low faculty-to-student ratio that encourages indi-
vidual development and collaboration. AHO offers a five or five-
and-a-half-year master’s degree programme that is designed to
best equip the student to enter directly into professional prac-
tice or academia. AHO awards three master’s degrees: Master
of Architecture, Master of Landscape Architecture, andMaster
of Industrial Design. Within these degree programmes, stu-
dents may specialise in the fields of architecture, landscape ar-
chitecture and urbanism, industrial design, interaction design,
service and systems-oriented design. The school also offers
post-professional master’s courses in urbanism and architec-
tural conservation. AHO offers a single type of doctoral degree,
the Doctor of Philosophy.
AHO has four institutes – the Institute of Design, the Insti-
tute of Form, Theory and History, the Institute of Architecture
and the Institute of Urbanism and Landscape.
As an international school AHO’s master’s programmes are
taught in English. International students constitute 25% of the
master’s students and 50% of the PhDs. The school boasts of
three unique workshops for wood, plastic, and metal. In ad-
dition, it also has a full-scale construction hall, Rapid Manu-
facturing labs, libraries, IT resources. Studios, data labs, and
unstaffed workshops are open to students 24 hours a day, seven
days a week. The international faculty consists of academics
and practising professionals who provide the necessary breadth
needed for a contemporary architecture and design education.
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FACTS AND STATISTICS
Founded
1945
Rector
Karl Otto Ellefsen
Faculty and administration
120
Students
600
Faculty to student ratio
1:8
Male students
50%
Female students
50%
PhD fellows
50
International Master students
32%
International PhD fellows
50%
