“This ranking shows that students at BI can be sure that they receive one of the best and most competitive business educations worldwide. It is a recognition of impressive work across the entire organization to ensure that BI has attractive programmes that are research based, learning oriented and closely connected to practice,“ says Jørgen Juel Andersen, Dean Master at BI Norwegian Business School.
The QS Business Master's Rankings highlight the best graduate masters’ programmes across the world and includes more than 700 programmes for the 2025 ranking. Each of the Business Master's Rankings is compiled according to program performance in five key metrics: Employability, Alumni Outcomes, Value for Money, Thought Leadership, and Class & Faculty Diversity.
Overall rankings:
- MSc in Business Analytics is ranked 49 out of 164 programmes.
- MSc in Strategic Marketing Management is ranked 29 out of 140 programmes.
- MSc in Finance is ranked 50 out of 222 programmes.
- MSc in Business is ranked 38 out of 206 programmes.
Top employability for marketing students
BI’s MSc in Strategic Marketing Management ranks top 16 worldwide in terms of “employability”, an indicator created by QS based on its global survey among employers and employment rate for graduates. Marketing students from BI are seen as some of the most employable graduates globally.
“These are impressive results and indicate that BI’s brand is well known among potential international employers. I am pleased to see that our MSc programme in Strategic Marketing Management provides students with the competence that the industry is looking for when they are asked from which school they prefer to hire business graduates from,“ says Andersen. 
Facts:
- The backbone of the QS Business Master's Rankings is the QS Global Employer Survey, which asks employers to select the schools that they prefer to hire from. The survey has now been running over 20 years.
- A total of 13 criteria form the basis of five key indicators that programs were ranked on: ‘employability’ (30-35%), ’alumni outcomes’(15-20%), ‘value for money (20%’), ‘thought leadership’(15-20%) and ‘class and faculty diversity’ (10%).
- Data is collected using three surveys; the QS Global Employer Survey, the QS Global Academic Survey and a survey completed by the business schools themselves.