Master of Science in Business

Major in Leadership and Change

Customise your Master of Science in Business degree by choosing a major in Leadership and Change.

What will you learn?

Get the skills you need to lead change, innovation, and development efforts in organisations. It has relevance for a broad range of future roles, including those who lead change from below. The major combines an orientation in organisational excellence with psychology, fostering a dual attention to growing business and people at the same time.

This major provides you with state-of-the-art integration of theory and rigorous research with stimulating cases and practical application. You will gain an up-to-date knowledge base in leadership and change research. This includes both classical themes of the psychology of communication, motivation and influence, as well as new themes in leadership research from practice-based studies, positive organisational scholarship, and design thinking. 

Popular courses covered in this programme

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Managing Creativity and Innovation

Get insight into contemporary research and practice-based knowledge of the most important topics, concepts and contributions within creativity and innovation processes in organisations.

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Responsible Leadership

Learn the various scientific perspectives used for studying leadership, and how leaders influence individual and organisational performance.

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Change Management

Learn a more diverse range of perspectives and tools for managing change, including emergent change, networks of influence, power, participation, cultural change and design thinking.

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Economic Psychology: Selected Topics

Get insight in how economic psychology aims to describe, predict and explain the actual economic behaviour of individuals and groups.

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Programme Structure

The academic year at BI is divided into two semester, one in the autumn and one in spring. There are exams at the end of each semester. This programme structure provides an overview of which courses you will be taking and when you will be taking them.

1. Year

  • 60 credits (ECTS)

Autumn

Spring

2. Year

  • 60 credits (ECTS)

Autumn

Spring

Please be aware that the study plan and courses can be subject to change.

Tuition fee

The academic year 2025-2026: NOK 122,800.
Updated fee for 2026-2027: TBA.

The tuition fee is invoiced per semester and adjusted annually. It includes access to lectures and the standard examination fee.

Students with a bachelor's degree from BI are eligible for a discounted tuition fee. Different rates apply to students from countries outside the EU/EEA and Switzerland. Certain exceptions and variations may apply.

Read more about tuition fees.