The UiS Business School has highly competent researchers and staff who offer some of the most sought after study opportunities in Norway.
About UiS Business School
The University of Stavanger Business School is an internationally oriented business school with a strong regional identity.
The UiS Business School is a business school situated in Stavanger, Norway, and a faculty under the University of Stavanger. The school has approximately 1400 students and about 120 employees.
Academic programmes
The UiS Business School offer five study programmes: bachelor programmes in Business Administration and in Law. Graduate programmes are the Master of Science programmes in Business Administration, in Business Law and in Accounting and Auditing. In addition, the school also offer a PhD programme and an Executive MBA programme.
All organisations need the expertise to manage strategic development and ensure sustainable use of resources. This is the core of our study programs and our graduates qualify for jobs in the industry, banking and finance, auditing and IT, wide-scale advisory services in both public and private sectors.
Departments
The UiS Business School is organized into four departments:
- Department of Innovation, Management and Marketing
- Department of Accounting and Law
- Departement of Economics and Finance
- Administrative Staff and Support
The Centre for Innovation Research, and the CIAM – The Collaborative Competence Cluster for Industrial Asset Management is also associated with the UiS Business School.
Faculty and staff
Our faculty members and administrative staff are highly professional and have a large network of fellow researchers and research institutions both nationally and internationally. For the moment there are 20 doctoral fellows at the UiS Business School. We are closely in contact with the social and business community both in our education and our research.
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. The UiS Business School was established in 2011 and the school aquired the status of a faculty in 2018 and is now one of six faculties at the University of Stavanger.
Academic Programmes
Bachelor in Business Administration
Language of instruction: Norwegian
MSc in Business Administration
2 year programme
Bachelor in Law
Language of instruction: Norwegian
MSc Accounting and Auditing
Language of instruction: Norwegian
PhD Programme
The Research School in Economics and Business Administration
Executive MBA
Language of instruction: Norwegian
Departments and faculty
Events
UiS Business School Seminar - Modelling Agents in Complex Transport Systems
Wed. 30.11.2022
10:00-11:00
UiS Business School Seminar - Does Wash Trading Impact Information Dissemination in Security Markets?
Wed. 30.11.2022
12:15-13:15
Synapse Lab Seminar - Welfare Reform: Consequences for the Children
Fri. 02.12.2022
12:00-13:00
Synapse Lab Seminar - Identifying the STEM Learning Technology
Thu. 08.12.2022
12:00-13:00
News from UiS Business School
– To get the opportunity to publish our own research means a lot
Two master students from UiS Business School have got their research published in an international journal
Students learns about motivation through working as consultants
In Economics of Motivations at UiS Business School, students participated in a case competition as consultants. The winn...
MSc students brought their case studies to a wind farm
– It was perfect that we could go out and see it with our own eyes, says Professor Gorm Kipperberg.
– This is an excellent achievement for our master' students
Three master students from UiS Business School are one of two finalists in the international marketing competition DMC.
Become a teaching assistant at UiS Business School!
We are looking for talented and motivated students who want to combine their studies with a job during spring 2023. The ...
Become a teaching assistant at UiS Business School!
We are looking for talented and motivated students who want to combine their studies with a job during spring 2023. The ...
Become a teaching assistant at UiS Business School!
We are looking for talented and motivated students who want to combine their studies with a job during spring 2023. The ...
– The expertise you get through the MSc in Business Administration gives a good foundation for any job in economics and finance
Marie Larsen Gellein has taken three degrees at UiS Business School. After taken the MSc in Business Administration, she...
Andrea Minto is promoted to professor in Law
The academic environment in the Department of Accounting and Law at UiS Business School is strengthening.
Research-Norway needs international students
Op-Ed Columnist: We believe that master's students are our youngest researchers. We are therefore very worried that we w...
KÅKÅ|nomics 2022: The biggest and most fun economic festival in the Nordic countries!
KÅKÅ|nomics 2022 is arranged from October 26. to October 29. in Stavanger. UiS Business School is a partner and co-organ...
Learn about clean energy and the green transition at UiS's new conference
UiS Business Schools' «Clean Energy Law and Economics Conference» is a new yearly conference in Stavanger that will expl...
Learning to create interventions that can change lives
Ph.D.-students and UiS faculty spent a full week diving into the methodology of behavioural interventions from Dr. David...
Serinha thought her new master's degree at UiS sounded futuristic
Serinha Murgorgo was looking for an international degree in innovation and chose UiS Business School. – Business develop...
– It is amazing to have Eric Bettinger giving a course here at UiS
He is one of the foremost RCTs experts and has again taught PhD-students from all over Europe at UiS.
Start-up company want the students' solutions
Ashley Moran participated in several InGenious challenges as a student at UiS. Now she is returning to the university wi...
Silje Haus-Reve is promoted to tenure
It is impressive how she has qualified for tenure through this demanding tenure-track in a short amount of time, says De...
Two intensive MSc years have got an extra intensive and educational start
To be best prepared for two demanding years, the master's program in Business Administration at UiS Business School has ...
Ola Kvaløy is awarded with The Leadership Quarterly Best Article Award
The award comes from one of the worlds leading journals on management research.
One of the world's foremost experts in econometrics taught PhD students
Professor in economics Magne Mogstad from the University of Chicago taught econometrics to PhD students from all over Eu...
Mari Rege will lead an expert group for children in poverty
The new expert group appointed by the Norwegian government is led by Mari Rege, an economics professor at UiS Business S...
Nhi Le chose UiS because she wants to impact the environment positively. Her background landed her a job in Vår Energi
Nhi Le's goal was to study and find the answers to how she could make the world a better place for human beings. The eco...
Landed a summer internship at Laerdal Medical
My summer job: Navid is working with simulation-based learning for healthcare education.
PhD course: Design of Effective Behavioral Interventions
The University of Stavanger Business School is happy to offer the course "Design of Effective Behavioral Interventions" ...
Marte C.W. Solheim is a new Professor in Innovation Studies
Marte Cecilie Wilhelmsen Solheim is promoted to Professor in Innovation Studies at UiS Business School. Her research com...
Publication Prize for Professor Kenneth Wathne
Professor of Marketing at UiS Business School, Kenneth Henning Wathne, has received the publication prize of the most em...
Anders Åkerman is new Professor of Economics at UiS
Anders Åkerman is promoted to Professor of Economics at UiS Business School. He is mainly working on issues related to t...
Dengjun Zhang is the new Professor of Accounting
Dengjun Zhang is promoted to professor of accounting at the UiS Business School. His recent research focuses on economic...
Hongyan Shi is a new professor in Marketing
As a new professor at UiS Business School, Hongyan Shi wants to help students build their skills in decision-making.
Strong applicant numbers from international students to UiS Business School
The number of international applicants to the Master of Science in Business Administration has increased by over 70 perc...
PhD course in randomized controlled trials in the social sciences, September 2022
UiS Business School offers the course Randomized controlled trials in the social sciences (PHD416) to PhD students in th...
Kenneth H. Wathne appointed member of the 2022 Louis W. Stern Award Committee
Professor Kenneth H. Wathne from the UiS Business School is appointed member of the 2022 Louis W. Stern Award Committee.
Contribution to the Swedish Corona Commission
The Swedish Corona Commission released its report on February 24. Associate professor Anders Åkerman at UiS Business Sch...
Elham Ghazimatin named as a finalist for the 2021 Shelby D. Hunt/Harold H. Maynard Award
Elham Ghazimatin's dissertation paper “Mobilizing the Temporary Organization: The Governance Roles of Selection and Pric...
PhD course in Econometrics with Professor Magne Mogstad in August 2022
The University of Stavanger Business School is pleased to offer the course Econometrics PHD401 to PhD students in the so...
Best Paper Award 2021 to Mattias Hamberg
Professor Mattias Hamberg is honoured with the Best Paper Award 2021 by the European Accounting Association for a paper ...
A collaborative approach to researching student learning engagement
Which classroom practices are critical for creating an engaging learning environment? UiS researchers from different d...
– If you want to learn from passionate people, you should not hesitate to apply for Strategic Marketing and Analytics
Daniel André Hamre Bjørnstol has a master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Stavanger Business ...
– Stavanger is a great city for study
Karla Vanessa Barreto Del Manzano Trobamala from Mexico got her master's degree in Business Administration at the Univer...
– UiS serves as a hub where students and corporate professionals can mingle and explore opportunities
Tanveer Ahmed has a master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Stavanger Business School. He now ...
Research
The University of Stavanger Business School has a wide and skilled research environment within Economics, Business, Law, Innovation and Management.
Main Areas of Expertise
- Economics
- Accounting and Auditing
- Finance
- Law
- Management
- Marketing
Economics: labour economics, behavioral economics, environmental and resource economics, seafood-related research, oil-related research Finance: applied finance Management: leadership, operation management, project management, information management, strategy Marketing: branding, consumer behavior, business to business (B2B), distribution channels, inter-organizational relationships, industrial networks, social networks.
Ragnar Tveterås is the Vice Dean of Research at UiS Business School.
The Research School in Economics and Business Administration (ECOBA) educate researchers who study how people and firms behave and interact within and between organizations and markets. Read more about the Research School in Economics and Business Administration
The University in Stavanger (UiS) and NORCE (former International Research Institute of Stavanger – IRIS) established a joint centre for innovation research. Realizing that most innovation processes take place in organizations, studies of the micro foundations and management of these processes in enterprises and the public sector are essential. Our collaborative studies with industry and governments inform policy and strategy regionally, nationally and internationally. Read more about Centre for Innovation Research
CIAM is a collaborative competence cluster for industrial asset management, and the focus is to make industrial production, manufacturing and process assets more cost effective through continued learning and innovation. Read more on the CIAM web page
Selected research projects
Feedback and incentives
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Coast-benefit
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Brukarinteresser og digitalisering i helse- og sosialsektoren
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