UiS Business School

The UiS Business School (In 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 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
  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. https://www.uis.no/about-the-university/contact-us/employees/brokel-tom-article134336-11199.html



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