BI Norwegian Business School
Handelshøyskolen BI
MottoMake it your business
TypePrivate University College
Established1943
AccreditationAccredited as a specialised university institution (vitenskapelig høgskole)
PresidentKaren Spens
Academic staff
404
Administrative staff
441
Students21,653
Undergraduatesc. 15,000
Postgraduatesc. 4,000
c. 100
Location
Oslo
,
Norway

59°56′55.37″N 10°46′5.21″E / 59.9487139°N 10.7681139°E / 59.9487139; 10.7681139
CampusOslo, Stavanger, Bergen, Trondheim
Colours  BI blue
Websitewww.bi.edu

BI Norwegian Business School (Bokmål: Handelshøyskolen BI) is a private university college in Norway. It was founded as a private, commercial and non-accredited night school in 1943, offering shorter courses in business and office-related subjects for tradespeople. In 1969 it became a foundation and it was later accredited as a college and later as a specialised university-level institution, becoming Norway's second business school after the state Norwegian School of Economics.

BI has four[1] campuses with the main one located in Oslo. The college has 845 employees consisting of an academic staff of 404 people and 441 administrative staff.[2] In 2015, it had 18,728 students.[1] BI Norwegian Business School is a private foundation and is accredited as a specialised university institution.[1] It is one of three private specialized universities in Norway, alongside VID and MF.

History

BI Norwegian Business School was founded in 1943 by Finn Øien as Bedriftøkonomisk Institutt (English: Institute of Managerial Economics), hence the abbreviation BI.

Current activities

BI offers a full set of programmes for bachelor, master and doctoral degrees, as well as executive education and tailor-made programmes for businesses. The teaching languages are English (BBA and graduate programmes) and Norwegian (most undergraduate programmes and custom programmes for local businesses). The school currently participates in exchange programmes with 200 foreign institutions in 45 countries.[1]

The internationally award-winning main campus in Nydalen (Oslo)[3] was designed by Niels Torp,[4] who also designed Gardermoen Airport.

Norsk Kundebarometer

Norsk Kundebarometer (NKB) (English: Norwegian customer barometer) is a research programme run by BI, with a focus on relations between customers and businesses. Based on an annual survey of Norwegian households, it collects data that may be used for comparison between businesses, comparisons between various industries and comparisons over time.[5]

BI Lecture

Campuses in Norway

Activities abroad

BI has educated roughly 1700 students in China[10] through its close relationship with Fudan University in Shanghai and is also the majority shareholder of the ISM University of Management and Economics (previously known as International School of Management) with around 1800 students located in Vilnius and Kaunas in Lithuania.[11]

BI Auditorium

Degree programmes

Undergraduate (All taught in Norwegian except Business Administration and Data Science for Business)[12]

Graduate (All taught in English, except MSc in Accounting & Auditing and MSc in Law & Business)

Executive MBA (EMBA general management in cooperation with Nanyang Business School (Nanyang Technological University), Singapore, IE Business School in Madrid, Spain and Haas School of Business (University of California, Berkeley), Berkeley, California, U.S.)

BI Library Area
TEDx Event at BI

Student organisations

The school has two student organisations, one for the main campus in Oslo and one for the other campuses. The Oslo student organisation is called "Studentforeningen ved Handelshøyskolen BI i Oslo [no]" (SBIO) (English: The Student Association at BI in Oslo). This union was formed in 2005 after the relocation of the three locations in Oslo into one—Nydalen Campus. The three previous unions were Bedriftøkonomisk Studentersamfund (BS), BISON and MØSS. BS was the oldest union, formed in 1964. The union for the other campuses is "BI Studentsamfunn" (BIS) (English: BI Student Community). This union was founded on 7 February 1987 and is today the largest student union of a private school in Norway.[15] As of June 2019, the two student organisations have decided to merge into one student body, the name and other details of which will be decided over the summer of 2019.

The student newspaper is named INSIDE and its circulation is 11,000.

The all-male student choir is named UFDA The Choir Boys[16] and was established in 1986.[16]

Ranking

The Financial Times ranks BI as Norway's best business school for the 6th year running in its European Business School Ranking 2021. BI ranks number 50 out of the 95 schools that make it onto the list.[17]

Financial Times also ranks BI Norwegian Business School's Master of Science in Business as one of the world's 100 best programmes in its latest FT Master in Management 2021 ranking.[18]

Quality accreditations

BI is accredited as a specialised university institution by the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education (NOKUT).[19]

BI has also received the following recognitions from private institutions:

Triple crown

BI Norwegian Business School is the first Norwegian business school that has received the three most prestigious international accreditations. Less than 1 % of business schools worldwide have achieved triple accreditation.[24]

Notable faculty and alumni

Faculty

Alumni

See also

References

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  2. ^ BI Annual Report 2015 (PDF), Bi.edu, p. 9, archived from the original (PDF) on 16 January 2017, retrieved 23 February 2017
  3. ^ "FIABCI Prix d'Excellence Awards - 2008 Winners". www.fiabciprix.com. Archived from the original on 9 October 2009. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  4. ^ "Pris til BI-bygning". www.aftenposten.no. Archived from the original on 30 May 2008. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  5. ^ "Norsk Kundebarometer". www.kundebarometer.com. Archived from the original on 20 April 2005. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  6. ^ "Campus Oslo". BI Norwegian Business School. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
  7. ^ "Campus Bergen". BI Norwegian Business School. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
  8. ^ "Campus Stavanger". BI Norwegian Business School. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
  9. ^ "Campus Trondheim". BI Norwegian Business School. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
  10. ^ "About BI | BI". Bi.edu. Archived from the original on 17 April 2016. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  11. ^ "ISM University of Management and Economics - Vilnius - Lithuania - BachelorsPortal.eu". Shortcoursesportal.eu. Archived from the original on 13 February 2013. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  12. ^ Silje Granli. "Bachelorstudier | BI". Bi.no. Archived from the original on 21 December 2016. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  13. ^ "BI Norwegian Business School - Offshore, Shipping & Logistics Education". Edumaritime.net. 18 December 2015. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
  14. ^ "Executive Education | BI". Bi.edu. Archived from the original on 27 October 2016. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  15. ^ "Om studentforeningen | SBIO". sbio.no. Archived from the original on 22 October 2012. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  16. ^ a b "UFDA - The Choir Website". Ufda.no. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  17. ^ "BI ranked best business school in Norway". 6 December 2021.
  18. ^ "FT ranks BI's MSC in Business among top 100". 13 September 2021.
  19. ^ "Akkrediterte studietilbod - NOKUT". nokut.no. Archived from the original on 13 March 2010. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  20. ^ "EQUIS Accredited Schools". Efmd.org. 10 January 2012. Archived from the original on 16 February 2014. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  21. ^ "详细信息". www.fdsm.fudan.edu.cn. Archived from the original on 29 November 2012. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  22. ^ "AMBA - Association of MBAs". Mbaworld.com. Archived from the original on 30 January 2017. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  23. ^ "Accreditation and ranking - BI". www.bi.edu. Archived from the original on 21 January 2012. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  24. ^ "Accreditation and Ranking | About BI".

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