The Graduate School of International Business (GSIB) of the Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation is a Moscow

Moscow

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-based graduate business school

Business school

A business school is a university-level institution that confers degrees in Business Administration. It teaches topics such as accounting, administration, economics, entrepreneurship, finance, information systems, marketing, organizational behavior, public relations, strategy, human resource...

 awarding MBA degrees. The school was founded in 1988 and was the first in Russia to start MBA programs in 1992. GSIB has the largest MBA student body in Russia, accounting for 10% of all MBA students in the country.

GSIB's current dean is Leonid Evenko, who is also president of the Russian Association of Business Education (RABE).

MBA Programs and Accreditation

GSIB is the only business school in Russia that teaches all modes of MBA programs: full-time, part-time and modular. The average work experience of the students is 10 years and the men-to-women ratio is 55:45. The MBA program tuition

Tuition

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 ranges between 370,000 and 594,000 rubles depending on the program mode.

GSIB has national accreditation from the Russian Ministry of Education

Russian Ministry of Education

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. It is internationally accredited by the London-based Association of MBAs

Association of MBAs

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 (AMBA).

Famous alumni

• Igor Gutorov, CEO, Severstal
  Severstal
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  -Ukraine
• Galina Ilyashenko, CEO, JSC The Seventh Continent
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• Mihail Pliukhin, Minister in Kaliningrad
  Kaliningrad
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   Oblast Government
• Pavel Roitberg, Department Director, OJSC MTS
  MTS
  - Organizations :* Machine and Tractor Station, a state enterprise of agricultural machinery in the Soviet Union* Manitoba Teachers' Society, 1919-present, a Manitoba, Canada teacher union...
  
  
• Dmitriy Shwaiko, Regional Director, RUSAL
• Sergei Turkovskiy, CEO, JSC Makfa

Distinguished professors

• Elena Semenkova
• Nikolai Rudyk
• Galina Sokolova
• Natalia Karpova
• Leonid Evenko
• Igor Gurkov
• Elena Mikhailova