Student life at campus Porsgrunn
Campus Porsgrunn is located in the heart of Grenland and offers an active and inclusive student environment. As a new student, you will be greeted with a variety of social and academic activities that make it easy to get to know both fellow students and the city.
Campus Porsgrunn is located in the heart of Grenland and offers an active and inclusive student environment. As a new student, you are welcomed with a range of social and academic activities that make it easy to get to know both fellow students and the city.
The best thing about campus Porsgrunn is the social community among the students. Here you become part of a large student group that spends time together across study programmes.
Former student Kristina Pettersen
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Buddy Week – a social start to student life
Buddy Week marks the beginning of student life and consists of a whole week of events, concerts, and social gatherings. The aim is to create a safe and inclusive environment where new students have the opportunity to get to know each other before teaching begins. Varied activities are organized, and there is no requirement to consume alcohol to participate.
Student engagement and volunteering
There are many opportunities to engage in student associations and organisations. Voluntary work provides both social benefits and valuable experience, and is a great arena to meet students across study programmes and study years.
The Student Society organises cafés and student pubs with concerts, themed parties, game nights, and quizzes among other activities. Additionally, you should check out the Student Society’s subgroups within floorball, underwater rugby as well as the film club and electronics club.
If you miss a subgroup for your interests, you can apply to SiG’s general assembly for funding for operations and materials. You can also help organise the annual student week, a cultural festival offering many concerts, themed parties, and other fun activities.
Campus and facilities
Campus Porsgrunn has modern facilities and is located a short distance from the city centre. The student house on campus is an important meeting place and is open throughout Buddy Week with various events. Here you can participate in quizzes, concerts and theme evenings.
A city with many experiences
Porsgrunn offers an archipelago, city beach, cafés and cultural offerings. The city has a compact centre with good public transport connections, and students have access to both urban and nature-close experiences. Culture enthusiasts can look forward to both Porsgrunn and Skien having their own cultural venues, namely Ælvespeilet and Ibsenhuset. Additionally, you will find Parkbiografen in Skien which often has cool concerts, and Bølgen Culture House in Larvik, just fifteen minutes away by train.
Facts about campus Porsgrunn
Location: Campus Porsgrunn is located close to the centre of the town of Porsgrunn, and is situated on a larger campus site which also hosts student accommodation, a technical college, upper secondary school, sports halls, football pitches and athletics facilities. In Porsgrunn municipality there are just over 36,000 inhabitants, and the municipality is part of the larger Grenland area (the municipalities of Porsgrunn, Skien, Bamble and Siljan), which together have over 107,000 residents.
Number of students: approx. 2,750