Nord universitet
Governance index 2024
The agency is in the bottom quartile among universities and colleges (21 agencies). Its development over three years is in the bottom quartile.
- Financial control: not included (no open figures)
- Audit: 100 of 100
- Employer: not included (no open figures)
- Procurement: 12 of 100
Quartiles within the group, not a ranking. Parts without figures are left out and the weights spread over the rest.
State accounts
| Year | Spending | Operations | Against budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 through 09/2026 | 1,498 MNOK | 1,498 MNOK | – |
| 2025 | 2,025 MNOK | 2,025 MNOK | – |
| 2024 | 2,034 MNOK | 2,034 MNOK | – |
| 2023 | 1,941 MNOK | 1,941 MNOK | – |
| 2022 | 1,783 MNOK | 1,783 MNOK | – |
| 2021 | 1,661 MNOK | 1,661 MNOK | – |
The agency is net-budgeted (like the universities). The figures are costs from its own accounts, and a budget deviation cannot be computed. Source: DFØ, state accounts.
The annual audit
| Year | The auditor's conclusion |
|---|---|
| 2024 | Not among the 10 of 230 accounts in which the Office of the Auditor General found material errors and omissions. |
| 2023 | Not among the 7 of 235 accounts in which the Office of the Auditor General found material errors and omissions. |
| 2022 | Not among the 5 of 236 accounts in which the Office of the Auditor General found material errors and omissions. |
| 2021 | Not among the 4 of 235 accounts in which the Office of the Auditor General found material errors and omissions. |
Source: the Storting's recommendation on the annual audit (Document 1). «Not among» means the agency is not named there, not that we have read the audit report.
Procurement in Doffin
| Year | Notices | Awards | Single tender |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 3 | 1 | 0% |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | – |
| 2024 | 19 | 15 | 20% |
| 2023 | 14 | 6 | 17% |
The single-tender share is computed from awards where the number of tenders is given. Source: Doffin (DFØ).
The Storting
Questions and cases in the Storting naming the agency in the title.
| Kind | 2025-2026 |
|---|---|
| Written questions | 1 |
| Question time | 1 |
| Interpellations | 0 |
| Cases | 0 |
Latest
- 21 September 2026 · Written questions · to the forsknings- og høyere utdanningsministeren · named in the title
Avisen Bodø nu har avdekket tidligere forskningssamarbeid mellom Nord universitet og land vi ikke har sikkerhetspolitisk samarbeid med, på områder knyttet til beredskap, blant annet Russland. Nord har ikke innført samme krav til sikkerhetsmekanismer som andre universiteter. Universitetet i Sør-Øst har for eksempel innført krav til sikkerhetsklarering. Hvorfor er det ulik praksis i norsk akademia - 5 February 2026 · Question time · to the arbeids- og inkluderingsministeren · named in the title
I spørretimen 10. desember 2025 uttalte statsråd Stenseng følgende: «Jeg har ingen tall som viser at det er vanskeligere å få jobb som nyutdannet nå». Ved Nord universitet er fire prosent av kandidatene arbeidsledige, dette er dobbelt så mange som i 2024. Ved NTNU var to prosent av kandidatene arbeidssøkende i 2022. Tallet for 2025 er fire prosent. Ved Universitet i Agder er arbeidsledigheten hos
Source: the Storting (data.stortinget.no, NLOD). Not counted in the index: much attention in the Storting is not bad, and little is not good. Questions are linked to the ministry by the minister's title, and to other agencies only when the name is in the title. We do not show who asked or answered.
What we do not measure
We do not assess policy, goal attainment, the quality of services or individual cases. We look only at what can be measured in open data and what the agency itself controls: financial control, audit and procurement. Sick leave per agency is not openly available and is therefore left out.
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The agency in the Central Coordinating Register · How we calculate
Sources: Brønnøysund Register Centre (NLOD), the Norwegian Agency for Public and Financial Management (DFØ), state accounts (NLOD), the Storting (NLOD) and Doffin.
Indications based on open data. Not an assessment of the agency's public mission.