The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim is Norway's largest university and its Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences trains physicians through a six-year programme distinguished by exceptional integration with engineering and technology departments. Clinical rotations take place at St. Olavs Hospital — a €5.5 billion university hospital completed in 2013 as one of Europe's most modern hospital complexes, seamlessly integrated with the NTNU campus in a shared 'knowledge axis.' This physical integration of hospital and university is unique in Scandinavia and creates extraordinary interdisciplinary collaboration.

Research flagships include the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience (where Edvard and May-Britt Moser won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering grid cells), the Centre for Molecular Inflammation Research, and the K.G. Jebsen Centre for Genetic Epidemiology. Trondheim is a charming, compact student city (30,000 students out of 210,000 residents) with historic wooden architecture, fjord proximity, and outstanding outdoor access.

For UK students, NTNU offers medicine in a Nobel Prize-winning research environment at zero tuition, though instruction is in Norwegian.