Education

education

Lifelong Learning – is the key concept of the Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics.

MESI provides preliminary courses for entrants, secondary vocational training at MESI College and a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate programs at the university.

Following the LLL philosophy, MESI has developed various educational programs including professional development and retraining courses, Masters and MBA programs.

Since 2005, MESI has introduced a two-tiered system of training: Bachelor’s – Master’s degree.

MESI also offers every form of training: full-time, part-time and distance. All programs at MESI include wide use of e-learning technologies: as the base technology for correspondence students and as course maintenance technology for students of full-time and part-time programs taught face-to-face.

Secondary vocational education at the MESI College

During their studies at MESI College, students acquire professional competences and have an opportunity to successfully combine learning and work. Later, College graduates can improve their qualifications by getting higher professional education on bachelor and master programs.

Areas of study: Banking, Applied Informatics, Economics and Accounting, Insurance and Information systems.

Higher education based on secondary vocational education in a shortened time period

College graduates are able to get higher professional education in a shortened timeframe: for 2.5-3 years.

Areas of study: Economics, Law, State and municipal management, Management, Applied informatics.

Bachelor programs

MESI offers Bachelor programs in 15 areas of study. The faculty teaching on these programs has rich practical experience in various companies and organizations as well as holds PhD or Doctorate Degrees, and provides necessary textbooks and teaching aids/tutorials. MESI professors actively use special software products, e-learning technologies, training and master classes in the learning process.

Management (Majors: Management of organization; Information management; Management of competitiveness; Project management; International management; Industrial management; Media management; Crisis management; Marketing; Sport management; Management for the performing arts; Management in the tourism and hospitality industries).
Human Resource Management (Majors: Managing the professional development of staff; Organization, normalization and regulation of labor; Employment management).
State and municipal management.
Commerce (Majors: Commerce; E-commerce; Marketing in commercial activities).
Economics (Majors: Accounting, analysis and audit; Business statistics and forecasting; Mathematical methods in economics; Taxes and tax assessment; Economics of organizations and enterprises; Labour economics; Investment activities; Financial management; Finance and banking; Global economics).
Informatics and computer engineering (Majors: Automated data processing and management).
Information security (Majors: Security of automatic systems; Information-analytical system of financial monitoring).
Mathematical support and management of information systems (Majors: System Programming; Administration of Information Systems).
Applied informatics (Majors: Applied informatics in economics; Applied informatics in management; Applied informatics in education and educational technology).
Business informatics (Major: Enterprise architecture).
Innovation (Major: Management of innovation in information and communications technologies).
Law (Majors: Civil law; Financial law; Legal ensuring of information security; International law; Legal basis of state and municipal administration).
Psychology (Major: Organizational psychology).
Psycho-pedagogical education (Majors: E-pedagogy; Practical psychology in education).
Linguistics (Majors: Translation; Theory and practice of intercultural communication).

Master Programs

MESI offers different Master programs depending on the level of professional experience that applicants have.

Master programs for applicants with professional experience of less than 3 years

These Master programs created for the recent graduates use not only traditional learning techniques but also imply various business games, case studies, master classes and trainings held by representatives of the leading companies, both Russian and foreign, and therefore prepare students for their future career. MESI actively encourages research activities of Master students allowing them to implement different ideas and projects.

Management (Majors: Strategic and Corporate Management, Marketing Management, International Business)
Economics (Majors: International Economics and International Relations; Accounting, Taxation, Analysis and Audit; Economics and Finance; Statistical and Mathematical Methods for Analysis and Forecasting in Economics)
Applied informatics (Majors: Systems of Corporate Management, Applied Informatics for Education and Educational Technology, IT Consulting for enterprises and organizations)

Master programs for applicants with professional experience of more than 3 years

MESI offers Master programs in Management (Majors: Strategic Management, Financial Management, Marketing, Human Resource Management, Project Management, Information Technology for Management, Social Management (Sport Management) for the experienced professionals that equip students with relevant skills and up-to-date knowledge needed to succeed in their companies and develop deep understanding of all the business processes and of the ways to manage them.

All Master programs of MESI have flexible schedules designed for the highly occupied people so that they don’t have to leave their jobs or change their lifestyle in order to study.

MBA Programs

MBA programmes are designed in accordance with the governmental requirements and contain the core modules of the corresponding programmes from the USA and from Europe. They are aimed at developing highly qualified and creative executives who are able to apply the latest management techniques and handle any business challenge.

General MBA
MBA in Strategic Management
MBA in Marketing
MBA in Financial Management
MBA in Human Resource Management
MBA in Information Management
Double Degree Executive MBA Program with IEDC Bled School of Management (Slovenia)

Programs of Second Higher Education

For those who hold first degree and would like to obtain another degree of the similar or complementary field of study in shorter period of time MESI offers the following programs that are run in a part-time format:

Law
Marketing
Management
Accounting, Analysis and Audit
Crisis Management
Finance and Credit

PhD and Doctoral programs

Postgraduate education provides the ability for students to get the highest academic qualification, which corresponds with PhD and doctoral degree. MESI carries out PhD and doctoral studies in two forms: full-time and correspondence. Postgraduate courses have 15 licensed programs in the following fields:

Economics
Informatics
Computer Engineering and Automation
Sociology
Law
Physics and Mathematics

Professional retraining programs

Professional retraining programs at MESI enable students to obtain new knowledge, skills and approaches to professional challenges in such areas like finance, insurance, financial management, marketing and knowledge management. MESI offers a wide range of various training programs - from short-term courses, seminars and training to comprehensive professional retraining programs, which can last from 6 to 11 months.

Professional development programs

Professional development programs at MESI are made for those who would like to gain new knowledge in information technology, management, marketing and finance.

Currently MESI offers the following programs:

Statistics and mathematical methods in economics: up-to-date trends and teaching methods
NIMA professional certification program for marketers (implemented jointly with the Netherlands Institute of Marketing (NIMA) and the European Training Centre of the Netherlands (ETCN).