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

Transforming the role of HR: what value it can bring to the business

18:07, March 15, 2021

Students of the International Economics and Business programme learned how HR works from the ChelPipe Group

The 1st year IEB students attended a master class from the ChelPipe group on the topic "HR: how it works", which was conducted by Natalya Sokolova, head of the department for work with universities. Natalia told about the organisational structure and functions of each HR direction in ChelPipe group for staff and company development. Students in the format of online facilitation saw how versatile functions lie in the area of responsibility of the HR service: recruitment, adaptation and assessment of personnel, analytics, motivation, training and development, company brand, corporate culture.

«We were told about the basics of HR and comprehensively analysed what tasks the HR department should solve. Speaker from the ChelPipe group also told us a lot of interesting things about the activities of the company itself and even shared secrets about how it works from the inside. We were given a practical task on drawing up a business project, which is very interesting and has great practical importance» - Elena Marunyak provided the feedback.

«It was interesting to get information about how the HR, personnel development systems and the organisational structure of a large company operating in the real sector of the economy are arranged. In general, everything was informative! We were also told a little about the production process of metallurgical products» - added Matvey Vasheka.

International Economics and Business

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.