Economics

Government-funded places: 16

Self-funded places: 30

The program’s goal: the program is aimed at developing graduates’ general economic competencies and professional skills helping them effectively fulfill strategic business objectives related to company cost management, its liquidity and different types of investments.

Key features of the program:

• Close cooperation with the business community, students’ engagement in group and individual projects for preparing graduation theses in the form of startups.
• Company executives and business owners’ engagement in master classes for sharing experience and consulting, in particular, on career development.
• Development of the program graduates’ understanding of not only Russian but also international specific features of business process engineering.
• Opportunity to study abroad as part of the exchange program.

Key disciplines.

• Compulsory disciplines in the field of study - Economics
• Elective disciplines. Soft Skills
• Elective disciplines. Digital Skills
• Financial Risk Management Strategies
• Financial Budgeting Models
• Investment Analysis and Investment Project Management
• Portfolio Analysis
• International Corporate Finance
• Interdisciplinary project “Effective Model of Corporate Treasury”
• Audit and Control
• Modern Methods of Corporate Pricing
• Alternative Investments
• Financial Modeling of the Company
• Financial Analysis (advanced level)
• Business Valuation
• Game Theory in Financial Management

Graduates of the program have knowledge of modern finance theory and are skilled in using it in the financial sector at the level of current global requirements. They are capable of making decisions under conditions of instability and uncertainty both in the business environment and global financial markets.

Awards and achievements. The program was awarded four palm branches as part of the prestigious international ranking Eduniversal Ranking. For a decade, the program has been the university’s flagship program and the leader of the faculty. 

The program director is an Honored Worker of Education of the Russian Federation. 

Graduates not only work at top Russian and international companies but also take an active part in Russian and international conferences and the university’s research projects. 

Half of disciplines of the professional unit are taught by practitioners and company executives. During the learning process, they actively introduce digital technologies, develop tasks and cases involving the use of special software, analytical superstructures, and financial and analytical terminals.

Accreditation. The program has a state accreditation. It was also accredited by the European Council for Business Education, ECBE.

Practical training and internship facilities

The Career Development Center (CDC) organizes industrial work placements and pre-graduation internships and holds career events such as job fairs, master classes, case championships, etc. CDC unites students, the university, and industrial partners. Industrial partnership is based on active cooperation of each of PRUE’s higher schools with the business community representatives in the fields of study. This partnership helps integrate elements of real professional activity into educational programs. So, students get the opportunity not only to study theoretical disciplines but also to apply them in practice by cooperating with the top companies in Russia and abroad. The base of PRUE’s industrial partners includes more than 600 public and private companies. 

Possible employers. Sber CIB, Sber, Alfa bank, ATON, ВТБ, Kept, B1, МТС, T-Bank, Rostelecom, and many other organizations.

Possible positions.

• Consulting and investment business specialists, business analysts.
• Employees of treasury of major corporations, financial and investment organizations.
• Specialists from economics and analytics services of Russian and international companies.
• Employees of financial, investment and analytics services of FMCG companies and enterprises of the real sector of the economy.