The student hostels in Tromsø are owned by the Student Welfare Organisation (SWO= Norwegian "Studentsamskipnaden"). The SWO Housing department handles all applications for housing and is repsonsible for the assignment of rooms to Norwegian and international students. International students are given priority when student units are distributed.
All international students who have applied within the application deadlines, are given the opportunity to reserve a single room in a student hostel. A room will be reserved upon request only. You apply for accommodation online through an online application system called Boligtorget.
The application deadlines for housing are:
1 December for spring semester
1 June for the autumn semester (Special situation spring 2010, date has been postphoned to 20 June)
Guidelines: How to apply for accomodation
Enter the registration form "Become a user" at BOLIGTORGET
Register your personal details.
Please fill in your telephone number with the two pre-digits 00+ land code+ number
"Your educational establishment" is listed in Norwegian only. You should choose Universitetet i Tromsø- and one of the faculties.
The system still lists the old UiT faculty names which were valid until 01.08.2009, when the University of Tromsø merged with the Unversity College of Tromsø . You find the new names of the faculties in brackets. Choose the faculty you will belong to according to the English name:
o Det humanistiske fakultet (= Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education)
o Det juridiske fakultet (= Faculty of Law),
o Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelig fakultet (= Faculty of Science and Technology)
o Det medisinske fakultet (= Faculty of Health Sciences),
o Det samfunnsvitenskapelige fak (= Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education),
o Norges Fiskerihøgskole (= Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics).
o Avdeling for kunstfag (= the new Faculty of Fine Arts).
You will now receive a username and password for login to BOLIGTORGET
The next step is BOLIGTORGET again. Start your application with "Find accomodation", choose the right profile: "single", "pair" or "family" and add the wished accomodation.
Due to the large number of students arriving each semester the Student Welfare Organisation can't guarantee to meet all wishes regarding where you will be assigned a room. But the Organisation will do its best to take your choosen priorities into account.
You will receive an automated reply by e-mail when a room has been assigned including the tenancy agreement. The agreement should be printed, signed, scanned and returned by e-mail to bolig@sito.uit.no . In the agreement the address and starting date is stated.
Please note that the room will be reserved for you from the beginning of the month (August or January, depending on when you arrive). You are responsible for paying rent for the whole month.
During your first week in Tromsø, you are required to pay a deposit of NOK 3.000. The money will be returned to you if the room is OK when you leave. The hostel rent is NOK 2.600 to 3.000 per month. The first rental bill will be sent to your mailbox in Tromsø in September or February.
The rooms are equipped with basic furniture and share some common facilities: kitchen, bathrooms, toilets, storage rooms and laundry. The SWO provides hardware items in the kitchen: refrigerator, cooker, dining table, chairs, etc. Students should supply their own kitchen equipment and all bedding equipment including duvet, pillow, bed linen (sheets and pillow cases). For the first few days you are advised to bring a minimum of equipment in case the shops are closed on arrival.
For additional information please see the webpage of SWO's Housing department or write an e-mail to SWO's contact person:
