Student life in Covid-19 times - a longitudinal study

Abstract

This study is on how business school students at BI Norwegian Business School – campus Bergen have lived and studied through the pandemic of 2020 and 2021. We have surveyed the students twice – the first time in May 2020, when we were about two months into the pandemic – and then again in January 2021 – when the pandemic had been running in our daily lives for ten months. The survey was conducted online to all students at the campus. We analyse the same cohort of students, i.e., year 1 and 2 in 2020, and therefore are year 2 and 3 in 2021. Consequently, we can see if there have been any developments in the same cohort of students' parameters. The sample size for 2020 was 369 and for 2021 259. A chi-square test of the samples shows no significant differences in sample composition between males and females. For the two surveys, there are 40% males and 60% females. The response rate for both studies is around 22% of all students enrolled at the campus. The study is only Bachelor students.