Semester Abroad

10-06-2010

 Increasing growth of exchange students

For over the five past years, a significant growth increase in various number of economics and business learners from the BI have opted towards an exchange semester abroad. It’s been determine that figures have rises for about 40% in the year 2011. According to Tom Colbjornsen who is the current president of BI Norwegian School of Management that this student exchange program entirely provide students mere chances upon learning in the field of business cultural setting and practices in other nations. This type of exchange educational program entirely supports of broadening the qualification of students especially upon going to Norwegian industry, venturing to their businesses and for public sector administration. Therefore, they have adjust their study education program as to ensure that those exchange students can entirely be facilitated in more easily manner in the field of their career course study program.

Faced with this demanding job market employment, various learners have continually seen that they been taking a semester abroad program as being a foreign exchange learners that become mere opportunity of distinguishing themselves. In the year 2007, only 11% of their businesses undergraduates have opted towards this exchange study program. Meanwhile, it seems that next year there will be about 40% students who will be spending their semester in one of top 160 school universities and various university colleges that this BI got an exchange educational program agreement that been dealing with.
Facts:

Business students will forego an exchange program for over the past five years got the following percentage result.
2007-11%
2008-13%
2009-23%
2010-25%
2011-40%

The top five listing of where learners would most likely forego towards an exchange program:
USA
UK
Australia
France
Hong Kong