Master in Business - Strategy BI Norwegian Business School

Overview

By majoring in Strategy, 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. 

• Credential earned: Master in Business, major in strategy
• FT ranking Master in Management 2025;  88
• QS ranking Master in Management 2025:  45

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

Accreditation

BI Norwegian Business School is in the top 1% of business schools worldwide having achieved the Triple Crown of international business school accreditations.

Accredited by: EQUIS, AMBA, AACSB