The new exam schedule released on Friday 27 March has led to a number of reactions and questions from our students. Most of the inquiries are concerning the exams that were moved to August 2020.

BI’s management recognizes that the changes in the exam schedule has created a difficult situation for some of our students. In light of this, BI’s management team will during the coming week consider the students’ demands, and look at possibilities to see if we may are able to accommodate some of them. The student organisation, BISO, will be included in this work to represent the student’s interests.

BI asks for your patience and understanding in a situation that is difficult for all of us. The corona outbreak has made it impossible to arrange the Spring semester's exams as originally scheduled, resulting in BI having to convert all school exams to digital home examinations.

BI will reach a conclusion before Easter.

We have published the new exam plan for the spring 2020 semester. For detailed information about your examinations, visit this page.

As of 31 march 4 students and 0 employees have confirmed infections.

• Follow the guidelines from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (FHI)
  The Norwegian health authorities will follow up persons with confirmed COVID-19 infections. If you have been in close contact with an infected person, you must self-quarantine at home for 14 days. Close contact means less than two meters from an infected person for more than 15 minutes, or direct physical contact
• Inform BI
  We would like you to inform us if you experience symptoms of the coronavirus. Use the form below to register. BI will follow up affected students and employees.

• Students: register here

• Employees: register here

• Register your symptoms with FHI to help map the outbreak
  In order to map infections, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (FHI) asks people with symptoms of the corona-virus to register. This service is only to map infections. You will not be contacted by the medical services, nor will FHI inform people you may have been in contact with. Follow the guidelines form FHI if you believe you may be infected.

You will always find updated information about the Coronavirus at the websites of The Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NHI). Including information about the following:

• Facts about the virus
• How to prevent infection
• What to do if you think you may be infected
• Information about quarantine and isolation

BI continues to monitor developments and follow advice from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (FHI) and other relevant authorities.

Effective from Thursday 12 March, BI's campuses in Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim and Stavanger will be closed for all students until further notice. All regular classroom lectures are cancelled. We will instead provide online classes. For students, please follow itslearning for information about how this impacts you.

Employees at BI are encouraged to work from home. However, our campuses are still open for employees.

We also clean frequently touched surfaces like doorknobs and elevator panels more often and work to ensure the availability of antibacterial dispensers in all common areas.

Please remember that the local student welfare organisations offer medical services:

Campus Oslo : sio.no
Campus Bergen: sammen.no
Campus Stavanger: studentensbeste.no
Campus Trondheim: sit.no

Student counselling at BI is available by Skype, FaceTime or telephone. Send an email to counselling@bi.no or to The University Chaplain at studentprest@bi.no to make an appointment.

SiO also offers support to students:
https://sio.no/en/health-services/someone-to-talk-to

Our admission process is running as normal, whether you are applying for our full-time or part-time programmes. Read more about the application and admission process, deadlines and processing times on this page.

Several students have asked questions about how the autumn semester will be arranged. It is impossible for us to estimate how long the COVID-19 outbreak will affect our activities.

BI’s main focus now is on organising the current semester’s teaching and examinations in line with the government’s restrictions on large gatherings of people. Hopefully, the autumn semester will be conducted as normal, with regular classroom and auditorium teaching, as well as offering students the opportunity to go on exchange and do internships. At the same time, we ask students to prepare for a scenario where the autumn semester will not be organised as previously planned. Alternative plans for the autumn semester will not be made before the current changes to the spring semester has been handled.

BI asks for your understanding in this situation, and also encourage all students and employees to respect the government’s measures to prevent further spread of coronavirus.

The changes in our education offer does not entitle students to reimbursement of course fees or other costs.

In order to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, the government has introduced strict measures and closed universities and schools in Norway. Therefore, BI has closed its campuses and all courses must for some time be completed with digital teaching alternatives rather than classroom teaching.

BI has a lot of experience with online education and will ensure that all our students will be provided with a flexible, high quality product. We work as quickly as we can to use the best digital teaching methods for the course you are taking, and recommend that all students maintain normal study progression and complete according to original plan.

Students that have travel expenses due the situation, are encouraged to contact their own insurance company in order to cover such costs.

The deadline for applying for funds this spring has been extended to 15 April. This is to help those who do not get their normal income. You find updated information (in Norwegian) on www.lanekassen.no/korona.

The Government has suggested that the student loan and stipend for the rest of the spring semester will be paid out on 15 April. They have also suggested to open up for an additional loan of NOK 26.000 kroner for students who have lost their regular income. Read more (in Norwegian) on regjeringen.no.