About Sund Folk College / Sund folkehøgskole
- situated 100km north of Trondheim in the heart of Norway, idyllically at the Trondheim-fjord.
The schools aim at being a “school for life - oriented to the world”. Sund is a political and religious independent non-profit campus school. Academic program includes both one-year and ½-year studies, supplied with numerous short-courses. Students live on campus housing a total of 105 Norwegian including approx. 5-15 international students each year. Students hold a minimum age of 18 and an average of 20 years.
Enrolment
Continuous application and enrolment!
If you, in order to study at Sund Folk College, require a visa and/or resident permit to Norway, please look up following webpage address for information through Norwegian authorities:
Read information at www.udi.no
Specifically: Read specifically information at udi.no
Be aware that the application time requires some endurance from you, 2-4 months time is normal.
In general
The folk colleges represent an alternative in Scandinavian educational system, with a special and valued educational freedom. But no exams or grades does not mean a free time year. Actually our prophecy and experience is that it will be one of the most intense years you will ever have. Besides the subjects we will try to ask you some fundamental questions about the answers you are searching for. Compared to the school you know, we, however, do not grade you in any way.
But we don’t live in a vacuum her at Sund. The world has turned more complex than ever, and also Norway has an important international responsibility. If you are supposed to understand and function in the world we live in, it is as important to understand that the complex ethnical situation of countries and cultures evidently will lead to society changes. Democratic societies will have to reconsider the old thought of cultural and religious identity in a people within country boundaries. Your generation must develop knowledge, attitude and competence to make modern multi-ethnical societies function.
If democracy needs democrats, where and how do we teach individuals to become democratic citizens? Here at Sund we are a living example of a complex multi-cultural miniature society, with norms not attached to any fixed ideology or religion. Therefore we give priority to a number of foreign students, offering a unique opportunity to learn more about the diversified world we live in. Our goal goes beyond the experience itself, but also aims towards transferring experience, to involvement, to action for a better world. Therefore Sund is “a school for life - oriented to the world”. Therefore you are so special to us!
Costs
Schoolyear 2009-2010
The one-year course is “free” in that sense that there is NO TUITION, or rather, - it is paid for by the state!
However, you pay for your living and travelling costs:
Three(3) components to add up:
1. Room and full board and service charge (free use of all equipment and facilities at school): Nok 78.700 kr
2. Studytrip - estimated to Nok 17.000
3. Enrolling fee - Nok 1.500
Note: When you start, you make a money deposit of Nok 1.300, designated for your room, key and equipment, - to be refunded when finishing.
Sund Folk College is a non-profit foundation with a non-political- and non-religious focal point since 1868.
Focus on development of both academic- and personal standards. Students (100) live on campus and hold a minimum age of 18 years. Tuition is fully covered by the Norwegian state. Schoolfees relate to room, board and travels. Read about the Major: UN-major