General Comments

Programme Objectives
The major objective for the 3-year programme in Facility and Service Management is to ensure that graduating students are qualified for various management positions within the field of facility and service management in public and private sectors.

Admission requirements
Admission based on formal competence or an equivalent. Relevant working experience is an advantage.

Applicants 25 years of age or older, who cannot document formal competence, may be evaluated for admission on the basis of non-formal competence. Criteria for evaluating non-formal competence are available.

Academic Programme

Aims and objectives of the programme in Facility and Service Management at Akershus University College :

The major objective for the programme is to ensure that graduating students are qualified for various management positions within the field of facility and service management in public and private sectors. This entails management of services connected with in-door and outdoor environment, responsibility for personnel and their development, information and the economic issues involved.

The programme also seeks to:
  •  prepare students for work in an inter-cultural work environment
  •  provide an education based on relevant and current research
     and development
  •  reflect and meet the needs, demands and expectations society
     and the job market has to graduates, but also to enable
     graduates to make a contribution to new competence in the
     companies and organizations where they are employed.
   • enable students to develop an awareness of their own identity,
     professionalism and management ethics
  •  enable students to develop the ability to use acquired
     knowledge in analysis and problem solving in professional
     situations
  •  contribute to stimulating students' competence in working for a
     justifiable and sustainable environmental management locally,
     nationally and globally.

  •  Practical training:
      Practical training is not a part of the curriculum. However, relevant working experience is an advantage.

  •  Evaluation and examination:
     The 3-year Bachelor Programme in Facility and Service Management consists of 14 modules. The students' work in each module is assessed in accordance with work requirements and assignments given, and the work is carried out individually or in groups. A final grade is given for each module. All of the modules must be completed and passed before students can register for final examination.

  •  Grading scale:
      Work requirements and assignments given in the modules are
     assessed as pass or fail.
     The final grades for the modules are given on a scale from A to
     F, where F is Fail.

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