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Rate My Professor Oddgeir Tveiten

Agder University College

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5.05/4/2026

Always respectful and encouraging to all.

3.010/9/2025

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About Oddgeir

Oddgeir Tveiten is a Professor in media studies at the University of Agder, Department of Global Development and Planning, Faculty of Social Sciences. Employed at the university since 2002, he began his tenure at the Institute for Political Science and Leadership before transitioning to his current department in 2009. His academic career includes prior roles as a senior researcher and information leader at the University of Oslo, first amanuensis at the University of Bergen and the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, and a 20% professorship in journalism and media studies at NLA University College from 2006 to 2023. Tveiten earned his PhD and MA degrees from the University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communication as a Fulbright scholar, where he co-edited the student newspaper Minnesota Daily and served as a teaching assistant. He has been a guest researcher at Stanford University's Department of Communication in 2008-2009 and 2014-2015, and has lectured internationally, contributing to MA journalism programs in Ethiopia, Uganda, and Rwanda.