# Oslo Commerce School

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**Oslo Commerce School** ([Norw.](/source/Norwegian_language) *Oslo Handelsgymnasium*) is a full-time public school in [Oslo](/source/Oslo), [Norway](/source/Norway), specialising in the teaching of [financial and business management](/source/Business_school).

The school was founded in 1875 as **Christiania Commerce School** ([Norw.](/source/Norwegian_language) *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]

## Growth and diversification

The first 32 students graduated in 1877. Until [Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration](/source/Norwegian_School_of_Economics_and_Business_Administration) (*Norges Handelshøyskole*) in [Bergen](/source/Bergen) was established in 1936, Oslo Commerce School provided the highest level of commercial education available in Norway. The number of pupils has increased steadily since then, especially after a 1950 reform gave economics and commerce courses the same recognition as the traditional high school subjects, and provided the right for its graduates to study at universities and colleges.[1] This avenue of entry to post-secondary studies became popular, and after a few years many traditional upper secondary schools began offering programs in economics and commerce as well.

The first students for the new Arts and Sciences curriculum began studies in 1977; the first class graduated in 1980. When Frogner Upper Secondary School closed, 13 class groups studying commerce and office/clerical programs transferred to Oslo Commerce School; the remaining students transferred to Hartvig Nissen School.[1] From the 2002–03 school year, the school has included programs in training for the [service sector](/source/Service_sector), for the [travel industry](/source/Travel_industry), for transport and [logistics](/source/Logistics) and for [information technology](/source/Information_technology). In addition, the school caters to [special-needs students](/source/Special_education) and offers two preparatory class groups for minority-language students.

## School library

The school library has approximately 9,000 books, including fiction and non-fiction, and subscribes to three newspapers and several journals. The library has sections for poetry and novels, as well as [audiobooks](/source/Audiobook) and foreign-language fiction in English, French, Spanish and German.[2]

## School locations

At its 1875 founding the school was located at Rosenkrantz-gaten 7. Later, before the present building at Parkveien 65 was completed in 1946, the school's pupils were housed at Munchsgaten 4. The original school had been used as a command center for the [occupying Germans](/source/Nazi_occupation_of_Norway) during [World War II](/source/World_War_II). The Germans added a bunker, which is today used as a museum.

The current building was designed by the architectural partners [Gudolf Blakstad](/source/Gudolf_Blakstad) and [Herman Munthe-Kaas](/source/Herman_Munthe-Kaas) and was largely financed through private funds and donations.

## Notes

1. [Trekk fra Oslo Handelsgymnasiums historie](http://www.ohg.vgs.no/omskolen3/Historie.html), Oslo Kommune Utdanningsetaten. Retrieved 2010-12-28.

1. [Mer om biblioteket ved OHG](http://www.ohg.vgs.no/skolen/Bibliotek/Om_biblioteket.html), Oslo Kommune Utdanningsetaten. Retrieved 2010-12-29.

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