News 2011

Javad Mushtaq, Rune Steihaug and Morten Finslo won a prestigious award for the best project assignment at Harvard Business School.

Lise Hammergren has been appointed division director of BI Executive and will become a member of the President’s management team.

As the MSc in Political Economy has experienced low enrolment figures as well as it is outside the prioritized fields within the strategy for 2010-2014 it has been decided to close the programme from the autumn of 2012.

BI Norwegian Business School is rising from 72nd to 70th place on this year’s Financial Times list of the best business schools in Europe.

One in five Master of Science students at BI Norwegian Business School are international. That is an increase from the previous year.

A week packed-full of meeting businesses, investors, NGOs, diplomats and bureaucrats gave BI students a unique insight into the current politic and economic conditions of the Ugandan development.

On October 6th and 7th a group of students from BI, UMB and UiO joined together in an Innovation Camp at the University of Oslo.

Presidents and deans from across the globe have recommended the world’s best-known business schools. BI is now ranked as number 27 in the world and number 15 in Europe.

Tuesday 20 September 51 students were presented with a Scholarship Confirmation in a ceremony here at BI in Oslo.

BI Norwegian Business School is ranked 64th among the world’s leading business schools, despite ever sharper international competition for a place on the Financial Times list.

BI Norwegian Business School will from the autumn of 2012 require a grade B/3,50 to get in to all the Master of Science programmes.

Never before have so many studied at BI Norwegian Business School. About 4600 new students showed up to start their studies at the BI Norwegian Business School’s six campuses in Norway this autumn.

BI launches its own app for students and faculty. The app gives you access to, among other things, scientific articles, news, lecture info and more library services.

Welcome to BI Norwegian Business School! As a student at BI, you will gain an education which combines academic quality and relevance to business and industry.

Welcome to BI Oslo! If you have any questions, speak to one of the people in red t-shirts at the main entrance. They can answer almost any question.

The aftermath of the summer 2011 will be with us for a long time. The tragedy that struck so many has aroused powerful emotions in all of us.

The terror attacks in Oslo have shocked the whole nation and many feel the need to talk to somebody.

BI students Tayyab Rashid and Subhan Malik have been awarded Alarga scholarships of NOK 100,000.

BI Norwegian Business School has decided to close down its Bachelor course in Media Development and Journalism and in Economics and IT Management from the autumn of 2011.

More than half of those who undertake continuing or post-graduate education at BI Norwegian Business School go into a position at a higher level after their studies.

BI Norwegian Business School is now sharpening its focus on professional alumni meetings abroad. On 9 June, around 30 former BI students will gather for networking in London.

Minister of Research and Higher Education, Tora Aasland and the Norwegian Ambassador in China, Svein O. Sæther congratulates BI Norwegian Business School and Fudan University with the 15 years anniversary of their joint master programme ...

Mrs. Gro Harlem Brundtland to celebrate BI-Fudan cooperation in Shanghai on June 4th 2011.

In this year’s Financial Times ranking of Customised programmes, BI Norwegian Business School holds its ground at number 29 among the best business schools in Europe.

The number of applications for BI Norwegian Business School has increased by 11.4 per cent. This is 1045 more than at the same time last year. The master programmes show the greatest increase.

The proportion of students dropping out of their studies has fallen each year since BI Norwegian Business School introduced progress requirements for bachelor programmes in 2007. In 2010, the number of students who were not accepted for...

Thirty-five per cent of BI students who graduated in the spring of 2010 are working for international companies. This is clear from BI Norwegian Business School’s annual labour market survey.

More and more international students choose to do an Executive MBA at BI Norwegian Business School. On some programmes, almost 70 percent of students are international.

BI Norwegian Business School achieved a total turnover of NOK 1 259 million in 2010, compared with NOK 1 160 million the previous year. This is an increase of nine percent. NOK 20 million of last year’s profit has been set aside in a ...

BI Norwegian School of Management has decided to change its official English name to BI Norwegian Business School.

Gareth Unwin, producer of ”The King’s Speech”, will be a guest lecturer at BI Norwegian Business School on 28 April 2011.

BI is currently launching video and quiz competitions on Facebook. Three students have been assigned the task of making interesting films about the everyday lives of BI students.

Before a packed auditorium, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and Minister of Finance Sigbjørn Johnsen today announced that the Norwegian economy will be back on track as regards the four-percent oil revenue spending ceiling as early as ...

A growing number of international students are choosing to take their studies at the BI Norwegian School of Management. In January 2011 there are 177 international exchange students attending BI.

Mr. Lim Sim Keat, 2010 Alumni from Executive MBA in Shipping, Offshore and Finance, was on February 7th appointed CEO in the Singaporean based shipping company, PSM.

The Annual Conference for 2011 at the BI Norwegian Business School attracted 300 participants from business and industry and the public sector. 25 contributors provided the audience with information on management, competence development...

Thorbjørn Jagland – comic figure or power figure? Does he possess the qualities to make a good leader or do the media give an accurate picture of him?

BI students believe that continuing and further education will have a great effect on pay and career opportunities. This is reflected in the annual student survey conducted by BI Norwegian School of Management.