The University Centre in Svalbard is a Norwegian state-owned limited company that provides university-level education in arctic studies. As of August 2012, the universities of Oslo, Bergen, Tromsø, Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Ås are represented on its board. The centre is known as UNIS and forms part of the University of the Arctic. It is led by a director appointed by the board for a three-year term. The university is the world’s northernmost higher education institution, in Longyearbyen at 78° N latitude.