B I Norwegian School of Management

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Paul Horan

Key Facts

• 8000 students• 600 staff members• 50.000 m2  

• Private college• >50% business education in Norway

• Today the total number of full-time and part-time students exceeds 18 500. Mostly Norwegians and other Scandinavians and international

~6m2/student

BI Norwegian School of Management’s new campus has been designed by Nils Torp who is one of Norway’s most famous architects. Nils Torp has won internationally acclaim for his design of buildings like the SAS headquarter in Stockholm, the British Airways headquarter in London, Oslo Airport at Gardermoen and the Olympic skating hall in Hamar.

4 blocks separated by two 7 storey glass atria(College occupies 3 blocks, fourth rented out.)

The building has been designed like an open town where you by looking up, down and sideways can see activity going on. Students and lecturers can communicate openly and actively. You’ll find open terraces, galleries, small nooks and quiet areas, which have been created as special meeting places and to add life.

Each group of students -bachelor, master and executive-  has its own special area with teaching rooms, meeting areas and special facilities adapted to the students' needs.

Classroom lecture• 20 Auditoriums• 1 x 650 seats • 2 x 370 seats• 1 x 280 seats• 3 x 250 seats• 2 x 200 seats• 7 x 100 seats• 4 x 70 seats

• 28 Classrooms• 9 x 80 seats• 11 x 50 seats• 8 x 40 seats

• In total, there are 3800 seating places in the auditoriums • and a total of 1287 seats in the classrooms.

• 1200 work stations• Situated around the campus for individual study

• Typical contact time??• Self/group study??

.63 seats/student

Additional 46 small group rooms in library

Library 8000m2

• 1m2/student• The library, covering over 6500 m2, (net?) is located on the

top two floors.

• 1300 workplaces for students.• 350 computer workstations. • The library has a total of 46 group rooms (22 rooms for 4

people and 24 rooms for 6 people).• The library also has 1200 study places and 250 seats in an

open area where you can meet and talk with fellow students.

• Seating in the Reading AreaThere are 264 seats in the reading area, for quiet study. Students studying to become auditors (HRS) have their own special reading room with 68 seats on level U1

• + • The library also has 4 audio-visual rooms and a seminar

room.

Alumni, businesses and the public in general are welcome to use our services.

Workplaces in the Library •

Flexible workplacesA special area is designed for flexible workplaces which can be arranged in groups or placed around a stationary computer workstation. This area contains about 130 computer workstations.

• Group rooms46 group rooms are available. 22 of these are for 4 persons, and 24 for 6 persons. All the group rooms have power outlets and network access as well as a whiteboard.

• Group work tablesIn addition to group rooms there will be about 320 places designed for group study, with tables  for 2 to 12 persons.

• Study desks264 study desks will be available in a quiet area of the library. All the desks have access to power outlets and a wireless network.

Computer workstations There will be approximately 350 computer workstations in the library.

Audio-visual-rooms4 AV-rooms are available. The rooms are designed for 8 to 9 persons, and equipped with network access, whiteboard and projector.

• Research cellsThe library has one research cell reserved for faculty.

• Training roomThe Course department disposes of a number of rooms available for teaching.

• Social areasApproximately 250 chairs will be placed throughout the library

Also

• PC Rooms3 pc- teaching rooms are available.

• A large fitness centre (2500 m2) can be found on campus. Students will get discounted membership prices

Food, Cash Card, Travel• The special canteen concept (main canteen) is based upon a self-service food hall

made up of several different food outlets, each with their own profile From autumn 2005 the catering company Eurest will be running both the staff and student catering outlets.

•also a fast-food outlet / newsagent

• You Don’t Need any Cash on Campus!• The special student card concept enables you to transfer money directly from your

bank account to your student card, making it an on-campus cash card with which you can pay for all your daily needs such as food, drinks, copying services etc! Simply transfer money to your card using the on-campus cash-transfer machine.

• In 2006, work on the extension of the underground line will be finished, connecting stations to make a ring around the city centre There will then be 8 trains an hour.

• There are 600 places for bicycles right by the main entrance.

Student House

• Just two minutes from the campus -students’ very own social club house called ‘Student House’, which includes 2 bars, a concert hall and café with both in and out-door seating overlooking the river. You’ll also find a wide range of other eating places and places to go out nearby.

• The Student House is ideally situated by the riverside, with 3210 m2 of floor space which will give students plenty of space to have fun. It’s up to the students to decide what to use all this space for