1. BI Norwegian Business School BI Norwegian Business School
Empowering people
Improving business

2. Triple Accreditations from AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA

3. BI Norwegian Business School
Founded in 1943 by a private entrepreneur as Bedriftøkonomisk Institutt
A private, not-for-profit foundation (since 1969)
The largest provider of education to the business and industry sector in Norway
Funded by tuition fee, in a market dominated by state funded schools and universities
1st year enrolment of more than students each year
have a degree from BI
Every fourth senior executive in Norway is a graduate of BI

4. Key facts Approx. 20,000 students 50% Full-time students
50 % Part-time students
Staff and Faculty
approx. 400 permanent faculty
approx. 400 permanent staff
1400 international degree students representing 63 different countries
More than 200 international exchange partners
annually around 600 exchange students visit BI

5. Locations:
Trondheim
Bergen
Oslo
Stavanger

6. 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

7. New BI strategy 2015-2018 International – Impact – Interaction
BI shall aspire to be amongst the 20 top Business Schools in Europe
BI shall build the knowledge economy
Empowering people – improving business
The BI core values shall be:
Student orientated
Academic freedom and integrety
Respect, responsibility and ethical awareness
Excellence in research, teaching and support services

8. 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
15 research centres

9. 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
Excecutive Master in Energy Management
Executive Master of Management with specialisation in Security and Cultural Understanding
BI-Fudan MBA programme
Phd – 4 years
Exchange program – bachelor and master level
This is a list of the programmes taught in English at BI. Future undergraduate exchange students will take courses of the BBA programme; Master students will take course of the Master programmes. Note that exchange students can not take courses in the other (MBA) programmes!

10. 17 Norwegian Bachelor Programmess
BSc in Business
Bachelor of Arts Management
Bachelor of Business Administration
Bachelor of Marketing Management
Bachelor of Finance
Bachelor of Economics and Business Law
Bachelor of International Marketing with one mandatory year abroad
Bachelor of Retail Management
Bachelor of PR and Marketing Communication
Bachelor of Real Estate Management
Bachelor of Accounting and Auditing

11. Double Degrees DD for MSc in Business:
Católica, Lisbon International MSc in Business Administration
International MSc in Finance
EDHEC, Lille MSc in Entrepreneurship or MSc in Marketing Management or MSc in Strategy & Organisational Consultancy or LLM in Law and Tax Management
Queens, Canada Master of International Business
DD for MSc in Strategic Marketing Management:
University of Groningen
MSc Marketing, Specialising in
Marketing Intelligence

12. Exchange programmes
630 incoming exchange students per year, bachelor and master
450 outgoing exchange per year
Bachelor of International Marketing – one year study abroad to 8 study destinations: UK, France, Germany, Spain, USA, Australia, Singapore, China
Housing guarantee
Choose freely from a variety of courses in English
Arrival service
Extensive social programme
Social programme throughout the semester
Norwegian language course

13. Exchange to BI
The joy of seeing snow for the first time

14. Fadderullan Buddy programme – magic moments

15. Challenge yourself – reach new heights