University of Agder Norway

College of Agder is a state funded college with grounds in Kristiansand and Grimstad, Norway. The organization was secured as a college school in 1994 with the merger of six universities and was conceded its present status as a college in 2007, however its scholarly action dates as far back as 1839. It is one of eight colleges in Norway; the other seven are the University of Oslo, the University of Tromsø, the University of Stavanger, the University of Bergen, the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Ås, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim and the University of Nordland in Bodø. 

The thought of a college in the Agder district is not totally new. In his brief time as leader of the union of Denmark–Norway, Johann Friedrich Struensee anticipated transforming the University of Copenhagen. He gave Bishop Johann Ernst Gunnerus of Trondheim the errand of growing more point by point plans. Gunnerus introduced a proposition in 1771 in which he recommended building another college in Norway, and setting it in Kristiansand. 

The intentions in proposing Kristiansand as a college town have been faced off regarding. Notwithstanding, the thought was soon disposed of as arranging started for the first Norwegian college. In 1811, a determination was gone to secure Norway's first college in Christiania (Oslo). 

Indeed without a college in the area, and as the requirement for better taught representatives climbed, a few littler universities were created all through the Agder locale. The principal, Kristiansand Teacher Training College was initially established at Holt, Aust-Agder in 1839, making it one of the most seasoned foundations of advanced education in Norway. It was trailed by Arendal College of Nursing (1920), Agder Music Conservatory (1965), Agder Regional College of Technology (1967), Agder Regional College (1969) and Kristiansand College of Nursing (1976). 

Agder University College was created by a merger in 1994, when the six open provincial schools in the Agder regions turned into one establishment. The University College got full college accreditation and turned into the University of Agder on 1 September 2007. In 2009, the University of Agder has more or less 8,000 understudies, 1000 workers and a yearly plan of around 800 million NOK (140 Million Us$). 

Today, the procedure of solidifying the University proceeds. In 2010 the University's exercises in Aust Agder (Grimstad and Arendal) will head onto UiA's new grounds in Televeien in Grimstad, and exercises in Kristiansand will be focused on the grounds at Gimle.