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• The universities and the university colleges have education and
research as their main tasks. Furthermore, there are 19 state colleges
in Norway. These mainly offer shorter, vocational studies with a
study period of two to four years. The Armed Forces have four
military colleges. There are also some private colleges, especially in
economics, health science, media and art education and theological
education. Most of these are small. BI Norwegian Business School is
by far the largest private college with approx. 20,000 students at full-
and part-time.
• With the introduction of the Quality Reform in 2003, higher
education institutions gained greater responsibility and freedom. A
new degree structure has been introduced with the international
bachelor, master's and doctoral degrees.
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