Financial Aid Award

Benefits & funding

• Tuition is waived for up to two years for a master’s degree or up to three years for a bachelor’s degree.
• BI may renew the award each year within those limits.
• Recipients must document their collective protection or refugee status at the start of every academic year for renewal.
• BI does not state that living expenses are covered.

Eligibility

• Applicants must be in Norway with collective protection or refugee status by August 2026.
• Applicants must be admitted to the first year of a full-time, three-year bachelor’s degree or two-year master’s degree at a BI campus, starting in August 2026.
• The applicant must be seeking a first bachelor’s or first master’s degree.
• The BI-Luiss Joint Master in Marketing is excluded.
• There is no stated nationality, gender, age, or work-experience requirement.
• Applicants able to document the required status in Norway when applying receive priority; academic standing is also considered.

Application process

1. 1
   Apply for admission to an eligible full-time BI bachelor’s or master’s programme.
2. 2
   For an English-taught bachelor’s or a master’s degree, upload a Financial Aid Award application letter, CV, and proof of status under the scholarship section of the application portal.
3. 3
   For a Norwegian-taught bachelor’s degree, email the letter, CV, and proof of status to info@bi.no with the subject Application for Financial Aid Award 2026.
4. 4
   Accept any admission offer while waiting for the award decision.
5. 5
   If selected, accept the award by the date stated in BI’s offer.

Program timeline

1. BI’s full-time programme application portal opens.

   1 November

2. Master’s award application deadline.

   1 March 2026

3. Bachelor’s award application deadline.

   15 April 2026

4. Normal master’s notification period.

   Late April / early May 2026

5. Normal bachelor’s and master’s notification round.

   July 2026

6. Eligible programmes begin.

   August 2026