I want to be a EU/EEA student at UiT

Hallo!

I am thinking of going for a philosophy degree at UiT in 2027 and I have a few questions for whoever is kind enough to answer them here:

- I am already guessing the answer but just be to ultrasure: on their site the deadline for addmision is in april but for other universities the deadline for EU/EEA students is in december. Not just that but I can only get all my required documentation as early as june or july next year. Will I have to wait 6 months?

- I have taken my C1 Cambridge certificate in june last year, I know it says on it that it's valid for a lifetime but I've been told that some universities reject certificates that are older than two or three years, does this apply for UiT? On Samordnaopptak it just says "The test must be verifiable to be valid. If the test is too old to be verifiable, you must take a new test."

- How is the work market in Tromsø? Given that it's quite small compared to other university cities I am worried about not being able to find a part-time job. Have you found one? How hard was it? What qualifucations did you need?

- I read somewhere that in the south of Norway the housing is expensive but grocieries as not as big of a problem whereas in the north it was the opposite. Reading reddit commnets it seems that housing in Tromsø is quite hard to get aswell, is that true? I know that in other university cities in Norja there are housing apartemts specificaly for students that are cheaper. I have seen a site with those for Tromsø but I don't know the salaries there and other prices and I can't figure out if they are cheap or not. I know there are sites that aproximate incomes and taxes and all of that but I have compared them to what people said on reddit and what agencies said and it didn't match up. Would you say they work for Tromsø? (Just to be clear, I am open to living in pretty much any conditions as long as I have a roof, walls, running water etc.)

- I read on UiT's site that it is possible to give exams in english and that while courses are in norwegian a lot of the syllabus is in english. Could I get along just with english? I have already started learning norwegian but I am not even A1 level so I am worried about my future capacities. I need to prove I am at least B2 as part of the general qualifications so I will be at least barely that by the time I go to uni I am just worried about jargons and about being misunderstood in exams (with a possible broken norwegian). Someone was saying in response to a UiT post that the university offers norwegian courses for international students but I couldn't find any information on that in their site. Is it true? (By the way, to any person that is just started learning norwegian and dosen't like, I was like that too but I slowly fell in love with it and so did most people I know that didn't fell from the first)

-Should I buy clothes in the country I live right now (where they are degineyly cheaper) in Oslo or in Tromsø? I'm imagining they are cheaper in Oslo too but I don't know if they would be appropiate for the weather. Is public transport expensive to and from Tromsø? I am mainly thinking of using that for buying clotes or long time goods that would be cheaper somewhere else. Is that a good idea?

-How accesible is hiking? How often could I hike? How much does qeather effect hiking?

-Do students usually remain in the city after they finish their studies or is a continous change of people?

-I know that in some countries if you study, say, geography for your degree, you can still take an otional course from something totally unrelated. Could I do that? Would I be allowed to at least silently stay in a classroom during a lecture frlm a coirse I don't follow? I love learnibg about various subjects and to study at such a diverse university without learnibg about other topics would be such a waste. I also feel that philosopher have been historicaly always intrested in other domains outside pure philosophy and that studying the basics of other subjects should be part a philosopher's permanent curriculum.

- Finally, are there any questions I should be asking? Apart from the cold, the small but diverse community, the lack of social events except hobbies and drinking, the longetivity of the night/days? Also, are there any online communities such as reddit (apart from this one), discord or from other apps where I could talk with alumni or current students? Are there any communities you would recommand for learnimg norwegian (I know of a Discord server for nordic languages but that's it (it's called "The Northern Lights")?

Takk you for taking from your time to read this. And I hope you have a very good day!