Oslo Commerce School

Oslo Commerce School
Oslo Handelsgymnasium
Four-story L-shaped brick building with ranks of white wood-framed windows; a parking lot in foreground. Two four-metre conifers are planted in containers at the front. On the right part of the "L" a wheelchair ramp and broad steps across the width of the building provide access to three double doors. The top two storeys are partially set back from the main façade. On the rightmost part of the building is an oversized modern clock face set into the brick.
Address
Map
Parkveien 65


Coordinates59°54′49.9″N 10°43′12.6″E / 59.913861°N 10.720167°E / 59.913861; 10.720167
Information
TypeUpper secondary school
MottoLæring i sentrum
(Learning at the centre)
Established1875
School districtFrogner
RectorTrond Lien
LanguageNorwegian
Hours in school day8:00–15:30
Campus typeUrban
AlumniGustav Henriksen
Siv Jensen
Per-Kristian Foss
Websitewww.ohg.vgs.no

Oslo Commerce School (Norw. Oslo Handelsgymnasium) is a full-time public school in Oslo, Norway, specialising in the teaching of financial and business management.

The school was founded in 1875 as Christiania Commerce School (Norw. Christiania Handelsgymnasium) with the goal of enabling young people "who had settled on a career in commerce or other practical vocations" to receive "a complete theoretical and practical education in commercial subjects as well as a higher education in other subjects."[1]

  1. ^ Trekk fra Oslo Handelsgymnasiums historie, Oslo Kommune Utdanningsetaten. Retrieved 2010-12-28.