Business and Governance in the Arctic

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The program is directed towards exchange students from partner universities, but is also open for free movers and students from Nord University.
The exchange semester will provide you with knowledge, skills and general competencies about business and management topics using as an example of the energy sector. Both global and Norwegian contexts will be a continual theme throughout the semester, accompanied by issues such as energy policies, geopolitics, and governance issues. Also, circular economy related to the different industries in the High North will be covered.

This semester package is only offered for exchange students from partner universities. Please go to student exchange to Nord for more information about the admissions process at Nord University.

Exchange students are admitted on the basis of nomination by their home institution. This means that the student will have to apply to their home university first to participate. The home institution will provide the student with information about the admission requirements.

The student must have a relevant bachelor degree within business or social sciences.

Students may apply to the Master of Science in Global programme.
The semester package corresponds to 30 ETCS and may be recognised as one semester of graduate educational programmes.

Costs for course literature applies.

There are no tuition fees for exchange students.

The Norwegian system for grading and assessment using the letter grades A - F, in which A denotes the best/highest grade and F denotes "not passed". Candidates’ work can also be assessed as "passed", "not passed", "approved" and "not approved".

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The programme is evaluated via student questionnaire, as well as by the programme coordinator. The evaluations form a part of the university's quality assurance system.