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
- Kenneth Henning Wathne
- Bjørn Terje Åsheim
- Benn Folkvord
- Bård Misund
- Tatiana Iakovleva
- Bernt Arne Ødegaard
- Aslaug Mikkelsen
