Campus Finnmark, Alta
Alta is the largest town in Finnmark County with its 19.000 inhabitants and some 1.800 students. Alta has a dry climate with sunny summers and plenty of snow in the winter, and is well suited for people with outdoor and sport interests.
Average January temperature is -8,5° C, average July temperature is 13,5° C. Average annual precipitation is 400 mm, i.e. less than in the Sahara! Alta covers an area of 3840 square kilometres.
Mining and slate quarrying, fishing and agriculture provided the economic foundation of the municipality, although today the service sector is the largest employer. Alta has developed into the centre of Western Finnmark and North Troms. A good communication network is an important factor for such a development. There are several flights to Oslo daily, and the flight time is less than two hours.
Alta is a culturally rich municipality. The university college's 450-seat auditorium is often used for various cultural arrangements such as performances of plays, concerts and ballet. The auditorium is much used, for example during the Students' Week when there are student dramatic performances and rock shows.
Though much of student life is centred at the college, it's not more than a 5 minutes walk to Alta's new centre. Here you will find the shopping malls, the market place, cafés, restaurants and pubs. Alta’s students also have their own student house Studenthuset City, with several activities such as concerts, quiz, and discotheque and so on.
| Activities in Alta | Training and groups | |||
|
|
Places of interest
- Salmon fishing in the Alta river is world famous. The river has a very special position with many anglers
- Sautso; the largest canyon in Northern Europe
- Alta Museum was voted European Museum of the Year in 1993. In just a few years it has become one of Northern Norway’s most visited tourist attractions. Rock carvings; visible signs of our forefathers are found in the museum park at Hjemmeluft, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
- At the Haldde peak, 904 metres above the sea one can find the world’s first northern lights observatory
Last changed: 05.06.2015 12.03
Welcome to Alta
Alta provides the best of everything. Here you get to combine the feeling of the "big-city" and the nature, and we are only a 2 hour flight from Oslo, where SAS and Norwegian flies several times daily.