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.
BI Norwegian Business School was founded in 1943 by Finn Øien as Bedriftøkonomisk Institutt (Шаблон:Lang-en), 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]
Norsk Kundebarometer (NKB) (Шаблон:Lang-en) 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]
Part-time MBA in China (in cooperation with Fudan University in Shanghai, China)
Master of Management programmes in International Management, Project Commercial Management and Project Leadership
Several Executive Master of Management programmes, including a relatively new specialisation in security and cultural understanding created in cooperation with the Norwegian Armed Forces.[14]
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 "Шаблон:Interlanguage link multi" (SBIO) (Шаблон:Lang-en). 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) (Шаблон:Lang-en). 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:
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]
