BI Norwegian Business School

BI Norwegian Business School

Handelshøyskolen BI
Motto	Make it your business
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
Doctoral students	c. 100
Location	Oslo , Norway 59°56′55.37″N 10°46′5.21″E / 59.9487139°N 10.7681139°E / 59.9487139; 10.7681139
Campus	Oslo, Stavanger, Bergen, Trondheim
Colours	BI blue
Website	www.bi.edu

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.