Master of Science in Business

Major in Strategy

Customise your Master of Science in Business degree by choosing a major in Strategy.

What will you learn?

The Strategy major provides an analytical programme if you want to pursue a career in management or consulting. You will learn how to frame and quantify businesses, business environments, and strategic initiatives, and assess financial implications. You will also gain insight into the skills required to manage the dynamics of strategy processes, such as implementation. The major relates rigorous analyses of competition and value creation to sustainability, innovation and technological change. Your ability to address key strategic decisions and strategically manage organisations is developed from a local to a global perspective.

You will learn to:

  • identify strategic challenges for businesses and break these down into manageable topics, issues, or factors for analysis
  • model and analyse industries, businesses and value creation
  • collect, structure and code data for the application of 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 associated with operating across borders and devise strategies to address these
  • communicate strategic problems, analyses, and solutions clearly to stakeholders

Career possibilities

The Strategy major offers an analytical programme that opens up diverse career opportunities. Students graduating with a major in Strategy are typically hired for positions in management or consulting.

Example areas:

  • Business development
  • Corporate strategy
  • Digital
  • Sustainability
  • Transformation
  • Strategy process
  • Implementation
Stian Køhn Berget
Stian Køhn Berget Carbon and EAC Associate Trader Strive Carbon and EAC Associate Trader at Strive
Former student Isak Brevik
Isak Brevik Category Manager Mars Norway The analytical insight in the world of consumer goods
Anniken Salvesen
Anniken Salvesen Trainee Sporveien Set up for the perfect match

Student perspective

MSc in Business with a major in Strategy, Class of 2017 student Rodica Burlacu, shares her insight into her thought process when choosing her graduate programme at BI. Rodica then continues by talking about the ways the major has enabled her to have a vast range of industries to choose from for establishing her career.

Student perspective

Faculty Perspective

Associate Professor and Coordinator of the major in Strategy, Erik Aadland, explains in this video how the major helps students gain competitive knowledge that will enable them to stand out in the future marketplace. 

Faculty perspective

Industry Perspective

Jørgen Hansen Juvik, Management Consultant at EY and BI alumnus, elaborates on three main benefits he sees from taking an MSc in Business with a major in Strategy. Furthermore, he gives practical examples of how the degree has given him the chance to excel in his career. 

Industry Perspective

Trying to decide which master programme is right for you? Take our Master Quiz to find your best match.

Customise your degree

As a master student at BI, you have several exciting opportunities that will contribute to a varied and interesting student life, at the same time as you build relevant competence and gain an advantage in the job market by tailoring your degree.

Internship

Our internship programme is a credit-bearing course that gives you the opportunity to test subjects and industries based on your interests, competency, and personal qualities. An internship is valuable as a means of allowing you to experience how your field of study is applied in the business world and provides you with work experience that can be highly attractive to potential employers.

Exchange

Take part of your education abroad! If you want to work abroad or in an international company after your studies, this should be particularly relevant for you. Culture and language are important in all companies and organisations, but knowledge of other countries' customs, governance and behaviour can be absolutely crucial to global success.

Elective courses

We offer a number of elective courses so that you can adapt your studies to your own interests and goals. This way you can build up competency and pursue a combination of courses that will make you attractive and unique.

Double Degree

Earn two master's degrees in the same time it takes to complete one. Double your insight, double your network, and double your potential!

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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

  • Master thesis for the 2026-2028 class

    7.5 ECTS

Spring

  • Master thesis for the 2026-2028 class

    22.5 ECTS

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.