BI Norwegian Business School

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BI Norwegian Business School

Triple Accreditations from AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA

Financial Times

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BI Norwegian Business School

• Founded in 1943 by a private entrepreneur as Bedriftøkonomisk Institutt

• A private, non-profit foundation (since 1969)

• The largest provider of education to the business and industry sector in Norway

• One of Europe’s largest business school with 20,000 students:

• 15.570 Bachelor students

• 3.968 Master students

• 111 Phd students

• 1400+ international degree students

Key characteristics and positioning• Funded by tuition fee, in a market

dominated by state funded schools and universities.

• Large scale bachelor programmes – with extensive programme differentiation. 1st year enrolment of 3.800 students.

• Differentiated MSc-programmes at main campus – with annual enrolment of 600 students.

• EMBA-programmes (General with tracks in Energy management, BI-Fudan,)

• Large scale post-experience, part time management programmes, with flexible structure. Annual enrolment of 1300 students.

• Phd programmes with 8-10 graduates per year.

BI’s strategic choices - programmes

• Bachelor: Profitability and sustainability• Efficiency and quality in a large scale network model• Product differentiation

• MSc and Phd: Academic reputation and position• Core disciplines• Stronger selection of students – no growth strategy

• Executive: Profitability and sustainability• Quality of a larger scale Executive Master of Management - flexibility • Product differentiation on EMBA: Shipping and Energy, and Fudan• Executive Short Programmes

8 Academic Departments• Finance• Innovation and economics organisation• Communication and Culture• Leadership and organisational Behaviour• Marketing• Public Governance• Accounting, Auditing and Law• Economics• Strategy and Logistics

17 research centres

Programmes and Students• 20,000 students, about half of which are

part-time students

• main campus in Oslo

• 3 regional campuses in Norway

• exchange agreements with more than 200 universities

• the largest provider of custom-made courses and programmes for a number of specific industries and organisations in the public and private sectors

Full range of programmes taught in English• International Summer Programme• Bachelor of Business Administration with three specialisations• 5 Master programmes• Executive MBA• Executive Master of Management in Energy• Executive Master of Management with specialisation in Security and Cultural

Understanding• BI-Fudan MBA programme• Phd – 4 years• Exchange program – bachelor and master level

QTEM master network

The QTEM Master offers a unique learning experience by providing participants with:

• strong foundations in management or economics

• strong background in quantitative and analytical skills and techniques applied to management or economics

• strong international exposure through two study stays abroad at two prestigious institutions from the network of Academic Partners

• strong immersion in the reality of industry through a company internship

17 Norwegian Bachelor Programmes

• Bachelor of International Marketing with one mandatory year abroad

• Bachelor of Retail Management

• Bachelor of PR and Marketing Communication

• Bachelor of Real Estate Management

• Bachlor of Accounting and Auditing

• BSc in Business

• Bachelor of Arts Management

• Bachelor of Business Administration

• Bachelor of Marketing Management

• Bachelor of Finance

• Bachelor of Economics and Business Law

Exchange programme• Incoming: 650 incoming exchange students per year• Housing guarantee, Arrival service, Social programme throughout the whole

semester, Norwegian language course

• Outgoing: 400 outgoing exchange students, 250 study abroad per year• QTEM master network and Double Degrees

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