Table 4.

Characteristics of student admission, implementation and student satisfaction with the administrative service of the Medical Student Research Programme

	NTNU	UiB	UiO	UiT	Total
Annual number of medical students	120	150	210	100	580
Places on Medical Student Research Programme per year	12	15	20	6	53
Number of applicants in 2006	18	9	22	8	57
Total admissions 2002–2006	58	80	99	28	265
Number of students on 31.12.06	53	70	67	24	214
Total number of students opting out (% of all)	0 (0)	5 (6)	8 (8)	4 (14)	17 (6)
Number of students leaving during the past year (% of all)	0 (0)	3 (4)	1 (1)	2 (7)	6 (2)
Number of degrees awarded	4	5	26	0	35
Administrative service. N and (%)
Very satisfied	5 (11)	21 (36)	35 (57)	5 (28)	66 (36)
Somewhat satisfied	19 (41)	10 (17)	16 (26)	8 (44)	53 (29)
Neither satisfied nor dissatisfied	15 (33)	18 (31)	9 (15)	2 (11)	44 (24)
Somewhat dissatisfied	7 (15)	7 (12)	1 (2)	1 (6)	16 (9)
Very dissatisfied	0 (0)	2 (3)	0 (0)	2 (11)	4 (2)