Overview

Key Facts and Outcomes

Through interdisciplinary cooperation you will meet different perspectives, possibilities and challenges. The programme addresses a broad range of questions concerning digitalization of the health sector across practices, levels and health organizations, nationally and internationally.

The Digitalization in the Health Sector programme is for health professionals and computer scientists. For a computer scientist, it is important to have knowledge about the complexity and the many different information needs in the health sector.

Through this University of Oslo master's programme you will get solid professional competence in a very attractive field. In order to get health services that provide for the citizens' need for health and care services, there is an increasing need for professionals that can aid in creating and securing good digital solutions. Computer scientists with health competence and health professionals with ICT knowledge are necessary for the digitalization of the health and care sector to succeed.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Engaged qualitative research methods

Information Technology in Health Services

Information Systems

Development in platform ecosystems

Health Data and Decision-Making

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 24 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2025-08-12 00:00:00
- Apply before 2025-03-01 00:00:00 , EEA/EU
- Apply before 2024-11-15 00:00:00 , International
- Apply before 2025-04-15 00:00:00 , National

Language

English

IELTS

6.5

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PTE Academic

62

TOEFL^® IBT

90

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Credits

120 ECTS

Delivered

On Campus

Disciplines

Public Health Health Informatics

Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

IELTS

6.5

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PTE Academic

62

TOEFL^® IBT

90

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Student insurance

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Additional medical costs (i.e. dental)
Repatriation, if something happens to you or your family
Liability
Home contents and baggage
Accidents
Legal aid

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Other requirements

General requirements

Documentation of English language proficiency

Scan and upload your official certificate/diploma and transcripts documenting that you have completed your upper secondary education.
You must scan and upload your official bachelor's degree certificate and academic transcript.
Documentation of financing
Passport or ID card - Only the ID-page must be scanned and uploaded.
Official translations must accompany any document in which the original language is not English or a Scandinavian language.
If you have completed studies/courses outside of the University of Oslo, you must also upload course descriptions. The course names and codes on the course descriptions must match the transcript of records.

Tuition Fee

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International

276000 NOK/year

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 276000 NOK per year during 24 months.
EU/EEA

Free

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 0 NOK per year during 24 months.

Living costs for Oslo

11682 - 19230 NOK /month

Living costs

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

Funding

Win a €10000 Scholarship! Deadline: 30 June 2020

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Scholarships Information

Below you will find Master's scholarship opportunities for Digitalization in the Health Sector.

Available Scholarships

You are eligible to apply for these scholarships but a selection process will still be applied by the provider.

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