Master of Business - Major in Strategy

Master of Business - Major in Strategy is one of 8 English-taught Business Administration programmes at Master's Degree level in the register, offered by 6 institutions. 3 of them list an annual fee for students from outside the EU, EEA and Switzerland, from NOK 166,700 to NOK 204,000; this programme lists NOK 166,700 a year. 7 are recorded as free for EU, EEA and Swiss students.

What you study

The Strategy major is an analytical programme for students aiming at management or consulting careers. You learn to frame and quantify businesses, business environments and strategic initiatives, and to assess their financial implications. The programme also covers the skills needed to manage strategy processes, including implementation.

It ties rigorous analysis of competition and value creation to sustainability, innovation and technological change. Your ability to address key strategic decisions and manage organisations strategically is developed from a local to a global perspective.

You will learn to:

• identify strategic challenges for businesses and break them down into manageable topics, issues or factors for analysis
• model and analyse industries, businesses and value creation
• collect, structure and code data for analytics
• develop strategies for obtaining and retaining competitiveness
• design and manage a strategy development process
• identify obstacles to innovation and suggest ways to overcome them
• identify business challenges of operating across borders and devise strategies to address them
• communicate strategic problems, analyses and solutions clearly to stakeholders

Admission, language and next steps

To be considered, you must meet the admission requirements for all Master of Science programmes at BI and the programme specific admission requirements for the Master of Science in Business. The programme is taught in English.

The priority application deadline is 1 March. After that, BI offers rolling admission based on availability. Check the programme page for the exact documentation and application steps.

BI is a private institution and sets its own tuition fees. Students from the EU/EEA and Switzerland are normally exempt from tuition fees at state institutions, but at BI the fee table applies: one rate for applicants outside the EU/EEA and Switzerland, and another for EU/EEA/Swiss and domestic students, external applicants, on standard master's programmes. The amounts are listed on BI's tuition fee page.

The programme is 120 ECTS over two years, taught at BI's campus in Oslo.

Master’s applications go straight to BI Norwegian Business School, not through the national admission service (NUCAS). Study in Norway states that you need a bachelor’s degree comparable to a Norwegian bachelor’s degree (180 ECTS), including courses equal to at least one and a half years of full-time study relevant to the programme. The institution lists its deadline as: Priority application deadline is 1 March. BI offers rolling admission thereafter, based on availability. Deadlines are set by each institution for each programme, so confirm yours. Entry requirements and language tests are also set by the institution, so start from the official programme page. Our guides cover tuition fees, study permits and housing.