Attractive graduates from BI
Demand for labour
BI Norwegian Business School provides relevant and high-quality education that is greatly in demand both in business and industry and in public administration. Data from BI’s Employment Survey where graduates from 2009 were surveyed showed that 86 per cent of bachelor and 96 per cent of master graduates obtained jobs six months after graduation.
Good starting wage
According to the 2009 Employment Survey the annual starting salary for bachelor graduates, including fringe benefits, was as high as NOK 364,000, whereas the average pay for “siviløkonom” graduates (Master of Business and Economics) amounted to NOK 455,000. The Survey also shows that it pays to take a Master’s Degree after a Bachelor’s Degree, since the average additional pay increase amounted to NOK 70,000.
The youth wave
During the next 15 years the demand for labour with education from university or college will increase strongly. In 2025 there will be a need for an additional 60,000 employees with an education in economics and business administration (source: Statistics Norway “Supply and Demand for Labour by Education, 1986-2025 in Norwegian).
One of Norway’s leading academic environments
BI Norwegian Business School has one of Norway’s leading academic environments in the field of economics and business administration. At the beginning of 2010 BI’s academic staff reached more than 360, and in BI’s core areas this constitutes one of the largest scientific environments in Europe.
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Research departments and centres
At BI you will find academic staff with varied academic backgrounds. There are eight Research Departments and a number of Research Centres at BI.
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Among the best in Europe in market research
BI Norwegian Business School is rated the best in Scandinavia and among the leading business schools in Europe with respect to the amount of market research published. BI was ranked one of the world’s leading research environments in marketing in the Journal of Marketing from 2000 to 2007.
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BI’s research in finance at 5th place in Europe
Measured by scientific publishing, BI is ranked as the 5th best academic environments in Europe in the area of financial research. BI is the only Scandinavian institution appearing on the global top 100-list.
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Doctoral degrees
BI’s Doctoral Programme is one of the largest in Norway in the areas of economics and business administration. The programme has six specialisations. At year-end 2009, 62 doctoral degrees have been completed at BI.
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Endowed chairs
A number of enterprises and organisations channel their support for research at BI through various cooperation agreements. Some of these also include endowed chairs. At the beginning of 2010 BI had a total of 11 such endowed chairs.
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BI's International activities
An international business school
BI Norwegian Business School takes 17th place among the best-known business schools in Europe. The survey Top Business Schools Worldwide by Eduniversal shows that BI is among the best-known business schools in Europe.
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Internationalisation
BI contributes to internationalisation through global student exchange and recruiting, joint educational programmes with foreign institutions, own study centres abroad and training programmes in cooperation with international enterprises.
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Global exchange and recruiting
BI Norwegian Business School offers student exchange opportunities with 160 universities and colleges in 44 countries.
In 2009, 1,100 international students were studying at BI, of which 450 were exchange students. They represented a total of 50 countries.
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Double Degree Students
BI cooperates with several recognised schools in Europe offering double-degree programmes at master’s level. The second year of the programme is spent abroad, either at University of Ljubljana, University of Amsterdam, University of Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, University of Groningen, Tilburg University or ISM in Lithuania. On successful completion of the programme the graduates will receive two Master’s Degrees from Bi and the respective school.
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Executive Master of Management in Energy
The Executive Master of Management in Energy is a cooperation between BI Norwegian Business School and the well-known IFP School in Paris, France. This is a very popular programme with both domestic and international participants.
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BI and China
Since 1996 BI and Fudan School of Management in Shanghai, China have operated closely by offering an MBA to Chinese leaders, among other things. So far with more than 1,500 alumni and 200 students graduating every year.
Part-time MBA in China
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EMBA in Shipping, Offshore & Finance
This is a part-time programme offered in cooperation with Nanyang Technological University – Nanyang Business School in Singapore. Participants can learn from the world leaders in Shipping and obtain a double degree.
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BI and University of California-Berkeley
Bachelor students studying marketing, business administration, entrepreneurship and retail management have the opportunity to take an exchange semester at Berkeley. BI works closely with UCB within the Executive MBA programme.
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Continuing and further education
Continuing education leads to increased job satisfaction
This appears in a survey conducted by BI Norwegian Business School. More than 60 per cent of those who completed a part-time Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in 2008 responded that their education has resulted in increased job satisfaction.
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Continuing education is a career booster
More than 50 per cent of the participants in the survey show that graduates have received jobs at a higher level than before as a result of their further and continuing education at BI Norwegian Business School. 82 per cent believe that their education has strengthened their career opportunities.
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Continuing education = better pay
According to BI’s Employment Survey for Further and Continuing Education Students for 2009, almost 70 per cent of those who completed a part-time degree in 2008 say that their salary has increased. Of these 90 per cent maintain that the increase is a result of their education from BI.
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Top executives have an economics education
A survey conducted at BI shows that seven out of ten top executives in the 50 most highly valued listed companies in Norway have an education in the economics area. The CEOs of all the five companies with the highest market value are economists. Most of them have an education at “sivil” or master’s level, and in addition many of them have taken further education at master’s level.
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