BI Norwegian Business School is the largest business school in Norway and the second largest in all of Europe. BI has in total four campuses with the main one located in Oslo. The university has 845 employees consisting of an academic staff of 404 people and 441 administrative staff. In 2015, BI Norwegian Business School had 18,728 students. BI is the largest supplier of economic and administrative competence and skills in Norway with more than 200 000 graduates since 1983. BI Norwegian Business School is a private foundation and is accredited by NOKUT as a specialised university institution. BI organised its academic activities in nine separate research departments covering all of the disciplines that can be expected at a modern European business school.
History
BI Norwegian Business School was founded in 1943 by Finn Øien as Bedriftøkonomisk Institutt, hence the abbreviation BI.
Current activities
BI offers a full set of programs for bachelor, master, and doctoral degrees, as well as executive education and tailor-made programs for businesses. The teaching languages are English and Norwegian. The school currently participates in exchange programs with 200 foreign institutions in 45 countries. The internationally award-winning main campus in Nydalen was designed by Niels Torp, who also designed Gardermoen Airport.
Norsk Kundebarometer
Norsk Kundebarometer is a research program 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.
Campuses in Norway
Campus Oslo: the main campus is located in Nydalen, Oslo, the capital of Norway. Campus Oslo has more than 14,000 students.
Campus Bergen: the second-largest campus is located in Bergen, the second-largest city in Norway. Campus Bergen has more than 3,000 students.
Campus Stavanger: located in Stavanger, the oil capital of Norway. Campus Stavanger has approximately 1,200 students.
Campus Trondheim: located in Trondheim, the third-largest city in Norway. Campus Trondheim has approximately 1,900 students.
EMBA in Shipping, Offshore, and Finance, Singapore
Executive Master in Energy Management
Part-time MBA in China
Master of Management programs in International Management, Project Commercial Management and Project Leadership
Several Executive Master of Management programs, including a relatively new specialization in security and cultural understanding created in cooperation with the Norwegian Armed Forces.
Doctoral Programs
Student organizations
The school has two student organizations, one for the main campus in Oslo and one for the other campuses. The Oslo student organization is called "" . This union was formed in 2005 after the relocation of the three locations in Oslo into one—Nydalen Campus. The three previous unions were called Bedriftøkonomisk Studentersamfund, BISON and MØSS. BS was the oldest union, formed in 1964. The union for the other campuses is "BI Studentsamfunn" . This union was founded on 7 February 1987 and is today the largest student union of a private school in Norway. As of June 2019, the two student organizations 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 and was established in 1986.
Ranking
BI is currently ranked 37th in the Financial Times ranking of European Business Schools. In 2009, BI was ranked by Eduniversal as the 35th most influential business school in the world.
