The University of Bergen (UiB) is one of Norway's leading research universities and home to a well-known Selmer Center for cryptology, coding theory and information security within its Department of Informatics. It offers a master's in informatics with security-oriented specialisations.
UiB's research strengths include Boolean functions, sequences and applied cryptography, supporting both theoretical and practical work relevant to secure communications. Public tuition is free for EU/EEA students, with only a small semester fee.
Set on Norway's west coast, the university combines a strong international research environment with collaboration across Nordic and European partners, giving security students a rigorous mathematical and computational grounding.