Handelshøyskolen BI | |
Motto | Make it your business |
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Type | Private University College |
Established | 1943 |
Accreditation | Accredited as a specialised university institution (vitenskapelig høgskole) |
President | Karen Spens |
Academic staff | 404 |
Administrative staff | 441 |
Students | 21,653 |
Undergraduates | c. 15,000 |
Postgraduates | c. 4,000 |
c. 100 | |
Location | , Norway 59°56′55.37″N 10°46′5.21″E / 59.9487139°N 10.7681139°E |
Campus | Oslo, Stavanger, Bergen, Trondheim |
Colours | BI blue |
Website | www |
BI Norwegian Business School (Bokmål: Handelshøyskolen BI) is a private university college in Norway. It was founded as a private, commercial night school in 1943, offering shorter courses in business and office-related subjects for tradespeople. In 1969 it became a foundation and it was later accredited as a college and later as a specialised university-level institution, becoming Norway's second business school after the state Norwegian School of Economics.
BI has four[1] campuses with the main one located in Oslo. The college has 845 employees consisting of an academic staff of 404 people and 441 administrative staff.[2] In 2015, it had 18,728 students.[1] BI Norwegian Business School is a private foundation and is accredited as a specialised university institution.[1] It is one of three private specialized universities in Norway, alongside VID and MF.