Personal Security Guidelines

BI Norwegian Business School and the Personal Data Act. The Norwegian Business School BI handles personal data with respect and care, and all registration of personal information in our registers of interested parties, applicants and students are based upon consent from you as an individual.

BI Relevance

We have a strong desire that the information that we send out be as relevant as possible to the receiver.

To avoid duplicates in the database, double mailings of brochures, etc. and to customise information to your wants and needs, and previous education, please include your name, birthdate, etc.

We will not disclose information to others and you can always ask to be deleted from the distribution list (does not include information that is necessary to convey to you in response to applying for admission or enrolling as a student at BI Norwegian Business School ).

Register of Interested Parties

Study information is dispatched using a centralized and automated system and therefore registration of necessary personal information is essential if you wish us to send you study information.

Necessary personal information is your name, address, date of birth (so we can distinguish between people with the same name and also prevent study information from being dispatched twice), the BI school from which you would like information and any particular studies in which you are interested. 

We do not release the information to other parties, and you can ask for your information to be deleted at any time (this will not apply if you have been or become a student at BI). The register of interested parties is automatically deleted at the start of the next academic year.

Register of Applicants

To be able to handle your application for studies or your enrolment, it is necessary for us to store all your personal data: name, address, telephone number, identity number (11 figures), employer and employer's address where applicable, and information on previous education and any work experience. The information will not be released to unauthorized parties.

Register of Students

To administer you as a student, it is necessary for us to store all your personal data: name, address, telephone number, identity number (11 figures), employer and employer's address where applicable, and information on previous education and any work experience. In addition, information is registered and stored concerning the course and studies you undertake and exam results (grades). We are required by the Act to store this information, and therefore it cannot be deleted. The information will not be released to unauthorized parties. If your employer is paying for your education and would like information concerning your exam results, BI Norwegian School of Management cannot release this information without consent from you as a student.

Access to and release of information

Persons who are registered in the BI Norwegian Business School's student database can request access to the information the organization has registered for the person concerned. This information will only be released if the person concerned submits a written and signed application. If this application is made in person, the applicant must provide proof of identity. This is to ensure that information will not be released to an unauthorized person.

BI Norwegian Business School does not release information to unauthorized persons, but does release information to organizations such as:

  • Statistics Norway
  • Norwegian Universities and Colleges Admission Service 
  • BIBSYS
  • Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund 
  • Norwegian Social Science Data Services
  • In addition, the names and addresses of new students are released to BI's student union and the Students' Welfare Association in Oslo.

BI Norwegian Business School observes at all times the applicable regulations concerning updates of the Central Reservation Register, consent to or exclusion from BI Relevance, and performs ongoing maintenance to prevent personal information from being released into publicly accessible sources.

The Rector is responsible for management of personal data at BI Norwegian Business School.