International Economics and Business

Where future global Elite Business Analysts are trained

Contacts:

Director of the programme —
Zhanna S. Belyaeva, PhD, Associate Professor

Phone(offices): +7 (343) 375-41-48, +7 (343) 350-75-68

E-mail: zh.s.belyaeva@urfu.ru

Degree: Bachelor in Economics

Duration: 4 years

Language of instruction: Russian /English (3 and 4 year)

Credits: 240 ECTS

Bachelor Degree Programme «International Economics and Business» is EPAS (European Program Accreditation System) accredited by EFMD in 2015 to become the only one outside Moscow and StPetersburg in Russia. This accreditation confirms that the programme meets international standards of business education and confers greater credibility on its graduate’s degree. For European universities, as well as for many foreign employers international accreditation is a sign confirming the graduate’s professional qualification.

Entry level requirements

Ambitious high school graduates with high communicative and analytical skills as well as English proficiency (B2 and higher) and eagerness to continuous self-development

You will know how to:

Successfully close international deals
Project and facilitate economic forecasts
Model optimal decision-making
Measure and manage socio-economic big data
Develop innovation strategies for corporate, private and governmental sectors.
Run international business operations and corporate cost management

Exclusive features of IEB

Additional classes of Business English
30+ English taught courses (3^d and 4^th year of the curriculum)
Balanced curriculum of economic, mathematic and managerial courses
International academic and business faculty
International students in class
Corporate partners’ master-classes
Grants for the exchange-semester for best students
Professional and social traineeships
Extra certificates from Corporate partners

Core Courses in English

World Economy and International Economic Relations
International Business
International Marketing
Models and Methods of International Macroeconomics
International Trade Theory
Industrial Economics
Strategic Management
International Logistics
Cross-cultural Management and International Protocol
International Financial Management
International Operations
Experimental Methods in Economics
International Business Planning
International Currency and Credit Relations
Corporate Social Responsibility

Our Graduates Career Path

The students of the programme are offered ample opportunities to participate in exchange programmes with foreign partner universities, as well as internships in international corporations — partners of GSEM and public authorities of the Sverdlovsk region.

The graduates of the programme are becoming more and more attractive for both Russian employers engaged in international activities and foreign companies. Having the competences in the field of legal regulations of international trade, organisation and modelling of international commodity and financial flows, our graduates get significant competitive advantages in the labour market.

News

GSEM BA "International economics and business" has confirmed the prestigious international EFMD accreditation for 5 years

20:36, June 10, 2021

This is the third cycle of re-accreditation of the program

On June 8, 2021 the decision to re-accredit the programme "International Economics and Business" of GSEM UrFU for 5 years was made at the meeting of the EFMD Programme Accreditation Board.

“We have confirmed for a third time one of the most prestigious international accreditations in the field of business education, and for the first time it has been awarded for the longest possible term – 5 years, says Dmitry Tolmachev, GSEM director. - While maintaining our position among other internationally accredited business schools (with either EQUIS, or EFMD accredited programme, or AACSB), we set new ambitious goals for the future! We are grateful to our colleagues, partners who support us in this progress”.

“International Economics and Business” Programme is the first and the only one at the moment in Russia that has been accredited by EFMD for 5 years. As prof. Zhanna Belayeva, the head of IEB programme, and GSEM academic director mentioned:

“This is a great success of the whole team that confers the highest quality of education at the level of the world's leading business schools, including such aspects of modern business education as internationalization, practical focus, digitalization and sustainable development”.

"EFMD re-accreditation is a great driver for further development, quality improvement and innovation in the educational process in cooperation with a wide network of our international colleagues and partners," notes prof. Ekaterina Demchenko, the leader of the EFMD accreditation project, director of GSEM International affairs office.

The International Economics and Business programme has been accredited by the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) since 2015 (one of the two programmes in Russia and the only one outside Moscow), confirming compliance with the highest international standards of business education. The programme is taught 60% in English by UrFU professors, foreign visiting professors and corporate partners. In 2020, the programme became the best educational programme of Ural Federal University.

Ural Federal University is one of the leading universities in Russia founded in 1920. UrFU is located in Yekaterinburg, the capital of the Ural region, an economic, industrial, scientific and cultural center of Russia. The university is the project office of the Ural Interregional Research and Education Center "Advanced Industrial Technologies and Materials" designed for solving tasks of "Science" National Project.