Master 120 ECTS
Major in Strategy
Customise your Master 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
Why choose this programme?
Student perspective
Master 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.
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.
Industry Perspective
Jørgen Hansen Juvik, Management Consultant at EY and BI alumnus, elaborates on three main benefits he sees from taking a Master 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.
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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
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Customise your degree
Through electives, exchange, internship and double degree opportunities, you can tailor your studies to your interests and career goals while building relevant competence and experience.
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Learn more about your opportunities for going on exchange while you are studying at BI. From Switzerland to South Korea - BI Norwegian Business School has exchange partnerships with more than 200 schools around the world.
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Prior experience at a workplace is invaluable when you're applying for jobs. At BI, you have the possibility to combine real-world experience with earning credits.
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We offer a number of elective courses, so that you can adapt your studies to your own wishes and interests. In this way, you can build up competence and get a professional combination that makes you attractive and unique.
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The Double Degree programme allows you to earn two master's degrees in the same time it takes to complete one. Double your insight, double your network, and double your potential!
Tuition fee
Master 120 ECTS
Major in Strategy
Master 120 ECTS
Major in Strategy
Tuition fee
Master 120 ECTS
Major in Strategy
*Internal applicants are applicants who have passed a minimum of 120 ECTS from BI.
Students with a bachelor's degree from BI are eligible for a discounted tuition fee.
The tuition fee is invoiced per semester and adjusted annually. It includes access to lectures and the standard examination fee.
Different rates apply to students from countries outside the EU/EEA and Switzerland. Certain exceptions and variations may apply.
Scholarship and financing
BI offers scholarships for eligible applicants. Explore the available scholarships and check the eligibility requirements and application deadlines for your programme and intake.
Admission requirements
- Admission requirements for all full-time Master programmes.
- Programme-specific admission requirements for the Master in Business.
If you are a current student at BI, log in to the student portal to find specific admission requirements in your education plan.
Priority application deadline: 1 March. After 1 March, applications are accepted on a rolling basis.