Evaluation of Master's Programmes in Management

NOKUT is conducting a national evaluation of 90 ECTS Master's Programmes in Management. The evaluation will start in the autumn of 2025, with the final report to be published in November 2027. Evaluations of educational quality are part of NOKUT's activities to ensure and enhance quality in education.

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The aims of the evaluation

The evaluation aims to generate knowledge about the quality of education in 90 ECTS master's programmes in management and contribute to quality development by facilitating the exchange of experiences, identifying challenges, and providing advice on measures for further quality development.

Framework for the evaluation

NOKUT's evaluations of educational quality are grounded in the European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the Higher Education Area (ESG 2015). These have been operationalised into our principles for external evaluation activities.

The evaluation process

The evaluation should be useful to those working with the study programmes, and the evaluation should therefore be designed in dialogue with stakeholders. This involvement takes place through input meetings and through the evaluation's consultation panel. NOKUT will ask institutions and other key stakeholders to nominate representatives to the consultation panel.

The evaluation terms of reference will be published towards the end of 2025. It will outline the evaluation's themes, data collection plan, and key milestones.

The assessments of quality in education will be carried out by an expert panel. NOKUT has the main responsibility for the evaluation methodology and administrative support. NOKUT will request input on the composition of the expert panel.

The evaluation data will include institutions' self-assessments with appendices, programme outlines, digital site visits, data from DBH and from national student survey, and potentially other quantitative and qualitative data.

On the Self-Assessment

A draft self-assessment form will be discussed with the evaluation's consultation panel. Each institution will submit one self-assessment. NOKUT encourages each institution to involve key groups and key individuals associated with the study programme in work on the self-assessment. This work will take place over a 10-week period in the spring of 2026. The self-assessment text can be up to 15 pages long.

On the site visit

The site visit will be digital. The visit will be led by representatives from the expert panel, and will include group interviews with, for example, management at the programme level and faculty or department level, lecturers, and students.

Tentative milestones

2025
May–June NOKUT has input meetings with key stakeholders
September The HEIs receive the proposal for the expert panel
October The consultation panel discusses the proposal for the evaluation themes
December NOKUT publishes the Terms of Reference and invites HEIs to a digital information meeting
2026
February The consultation panel discusses the proposal for the self-assessment form
March–May Each HEI writes one self-assessment
October–December The expert panel completes digital site visits
2027
September The HEIs receive relevant report chapters for fact checking
October The HEIs receive the final report and can submit a public statement to NOKUT
November Report launch

Contact NOKUT

Please contact project manager Inger-Lise Kalviknes Bore at inger-lise.kalviknes.bore@nokut.no.

HEIs wishing to submit a complaint about the evaluation process or an appeal in response to the final report, can email Inger-Lise Kalviknes Bore, copying in stein.erik.lid@nokut.no and postmottak@nokut.no