The University of Oslo and Göteborg University are among the largest in Scandinavia with over 35.000 respectively 40.000 students, while Chalmers University of Technology has around 8.000 students. Within a couple of years there will also be about 4.000 students at the IT-University in Göteborg. The Norwegian School of Management BI has a further 10.000 students and the Agriculture University of Norway and the Norwegian School of Veterinary have some 3.000 students. 

• The MedCoast Region has over 100.000 students. 
• Universities has a high degree of external research contracts, in totaled 190 million EURO annually.  
• 350-400 PhD students graduate within biotechnology annually.

(source Oxford Research, figures from 2004)