Choosing an institution to study for a Master of Business Administration (MBA) is not an easy task. To facilitate the task for those seeking, the MBA in Moscow and Russia and Job.ru portals prepared rating of Russian business schools according to 2015.
They conducted an online survey of 1,440 business school graduates who rated Alma Mater according to 4 parameters: business relations, income growth, career growth, personal and professional development, and on a scale of 1 (“useless”) to 5 (“the largest benefit"). The arithmetic mean value is the total score for each parameter.
We present you the top 10 best Russian business schools. The rating is relevant for applicants in 2016.
10. Moscow Business School
The sum of points - 14.42
It offers two programs: MBA Start (versatile distance learning for middle and senior managers) and MBA Professional (for in-depth training for managers in finance, HR management, marketing and sales, strategic management or production management).
9. Business School of the All-Russian Academy of Foreign Trade (VAVT)
The sum of points - 15.35
It offers short-term MBA programs in the areas of: finance, international business and marketing, strategic management, corporate governance.
8. Moscow Financial and Law University
The sum of points - 15.48
There are distance MBA programs (including the short-term program “Fundamentals of Management”), as well as two-year programs “MBA + Master of Strategic Management” and MBA “Management”.
7. Faculty of Economics, Moscow State University
The sum of points - 15.95
There is a one and a half year MBA program, in the development of which the leading European and American business schools and universities participated.
6. Plekhanov Business School Integral
The sum of points - 16.23
The programs of this business school have international accreditation; they comply with international standards for the quality of educational services. Three forms of training: 3-4 times a week (Part-time MBA), Saturdays (Executive MBA) and session with elements of distance learning (Modular MBA).
5th place
Higher School of MBA of Kazan Federal University (16.36)
The Kazan Business School offers two-year training for people with higher education and with three years of managerial experience.
Baikal International Business School of Irkutsk State University (16.31)
In the Irkutsk business school during the training, you can take a foreign internship.
4th place
International School of Financial University
As part of the MBA program at the MBA of the University of Finance, there are 7 different specializations, including the media business and management in the electric power industry.
Higher School of Business Informatics HSE
The areas of MBA preparation at the HSE School of Business Informatics are electronic business, training IT managers and business analytics, and business process management.
3rd place
Graduate School of Corporate Governance, RANEPA (16.92)
The RANEPA program has 4 specializations: marketing and sales, innovative and technological management, managerial skills of the head and corporate governance and finance.
St. Petersburg International Institute of Management (16.22)
The IMISP Business School offers an Executive MBA program for executives and business owners and an IMISP MBA program for career managers.
2nd place
- School of Business and International Competencies MGIMO (17.13)
- IDAB Financial University (17.10)
- Higher School of Finance and Management, RANEPA (17.09)
- MIRBIS Institute (17.08)
- School of IT Management, Faculty of Economics, RANEPA (06/17)
- International Institute of Management "Link", Graduate School of Business GUU (17.03)
These educational institutions occupy leading positions in the ratings of business schools in the Russian Federation and make it possible to choose an interesting specialization of the program, as well as a preferred training format.
1 place
Institute of Social Sciences, RANEPA (17.24)
ION RANEPA offers part-time two-year MBA. One of the programs is completely in English.
Institute of Business and Business Administration, RANEPA (17.21)
A novelty of the IBDA RANEPA is the two-year iMBA program in the full-time-distance format (30% of online lessons).
Graduate School of Management (17.20)
The GSOM SPbU program includes 14 compulsory disciplines and up to 6 elective disciplines, business games, comprehensive trainings, international on-site modules and applied certification projects
Vlerick Business School (17.19)
Vlerick is not a Russian business school. It is included in the list to compare the quality of training managers with institutions of the Russian Federation.