The Faculty of Education and Liberal Arts and the Faculty of Business and Social Work is located in the town of Alta in Alta Municipality, while the Faculty of Nursing is located in the town of Hammerfest in Hammerfest Municipality.
The university college was established on 1 August 1994, and had approximately 2,000 students and 240 employees.
The original Finnmark University College was, and the recent incarnation of the University of Tromso - Norway's Arctic University is, affiliated with UArctic and offers an online Bachelor of Northern Studies (BNS) which is delivered in the English language and which is based upon the UArctic Bachelor of Circumpolar Studies programme.
The BNS programme is available to students both within Norway and internationally, with students having the option to attend the Alta campus for their final BNS semester.
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