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The story
The university has its roots in Rogaland Regional College, established in 1969. In 1986, Rogaland Regional College merged with the Rogaland Polytechnic to form Rogaland College Center.
In 1994, the Stavanger University College (Norwegian: Høgskolen i Stavanger; HiS) was formed, when Rogaland College Center merged with Stavanger Nursing College, Stavanger Social Work College, the Norwegian Hospitality College, Stavanger Teachers' College, Rogaland Music Conservatory and the Congregational College.
In January 2005, the college was granted university status by the government. Officially rebranding as the University of Stavanger. It was the first university to form as the result of a merger.
In 2009, the Museum of Archaeology in Stavanger was transferred from Stavanger Museum to UiS.
The University of Stavanger was in 2018 the third highest ranked in Norway in terms of number of research publications per member of scientific staff and fifth overall. The university became a member of the European Consortium of Innovative Universities (ECIU) in October 2012.
From Wikipedia’s article on University of Stavanger, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4