Bioscience University of Oslo

Overview

Key features

By following the Bioscience programme of the University of Oslo, you may explore nature through your own research project. You have the opportunity to work in a laboratory and/or do fieldwork, or you may analyze large datasets with bioinformatics and computational and statistical tools. You will participate in the research group of your supervisor(s) and observe how research is conducted in practice.

The master’s programme in brief

The master studies in Bioscience gives research based specialization in one of seven possible directions. Your studies may aim at analyzing the contextual complexity of larger ecosystems; in alpine regions, oceans or lakes, and in the polar areas, and how these are influenced by seasonal and climate-induced variation, or by human activities. The master studies may also aim at understanding molecular, biochemical, and physiological mechanisms at the subcellular, cellular, or organismal level, and these mechanisms are regulated in different species.

The programme has seven options for specialization

• Biodiversity and systematics

• Cell biology, physiologi and neuroscience

• Ecology and evolution

• Genetics and developmental biology

• Marine biology and limnology

• Molecular biology and biochemistry

• Toxicology and environmental science