UiS Business School

The UiS Business School (Norwegian: Handelshøyskolen ved UiS) is a business school situated in Stavanger, Norway, and a faculty under the University of Stavanger. The business school is one of the largest institutions in Norway educating students at the masters level in business administration.^[1]^[2]^[3]

History

The origin for the UiS Business School was the establishment of the Rogaland Regional College in Stavanger in 1969 with a two-year program in Business Administration. The regional College became the University College of Rogaland in 1985 and in 1995 changed the name to Høgskolen i Stavanger/Stavanger University College (HiS). The University of Stavanger UiS was established in 2005 when the former Høgskolen i Stavanger (HiS) received university status.

Staff & Students

The UiS Business School consists of about 75 faculty members and staff,^[4] 750 undergraduate students, 300 graduate students, 100 Executive MBA students, and 22 PhD candidates.

Research centers and Research groups

Centre for Innovation Research and Center for Entrepreneurship
Energy and Commodity Finance Research group
Behavioural Economics and Finance Research group
Lemon lab
Capital markets accounting research

Educational Programmes

The UiS Business School offer Bachelor Programmes in Business Administration, Accounting & Auditing, and Law and Master of Science Programmes in Applied Finance, Accounting and Auditing. In addition, the UIS Business School also offers an Executive MBA programme.^[5]

Notable faculty and alumni

Academics

Mari Rege
Ola Kvaløy
Klaus Mohn
Ragnar Tveterås
Rune Dahl Fitjar
Tom Broekel^[6]
Marte Cecilie Wilhelmsen Solheim
Kenneth Henning Wathne
Bjørn Terje Åsheim
Benn Folkvord
Bård Misund
Tatiana Iakovleva
Bernt Arne Ødegaard
Aslaug Mikkelsen

References

^ Forskning.no
^ Aftenbladet
^ Revisorforeningen
^ Staff at the UiS Business School
^ Youtube presentation of education programmes in economics and finance
^ https://www.uis.no/about-the-university/contact-us/employees/brokel-tom-article134336-11199.html ^{[dead link]}

External links

Official website

58°56′19″N 5°41′48″E / 58.9385°N 5.6966°E / 58.9385; 5.6966

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[1] Forskning.no

[2] Aftenbladet

[3] Revisorforeningen

[4] Staff at the UiS Business School

[5] Youtube presentation of education programmes in economics and finance

[6] ttps://www.uis.no/about-the-university/contact-us/employees/brokel-tom-article134336-11199.html ^{[dead link]}

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