MBA school rating. Folk mva. Additional options for the MBA program

The business education market in Russia is developing rapidly. Both the number of business schools and the number of MBA programs on offer are growing. Therefore, it becomes difficult for applicants to understand the proposals. At first glance, they all look presentable and attractive. However, in order to make the right choice, applicants must obtain the maximum amount of reliable information about the business school and analyze it correctly. Only then can one expect to receive the expected result and a certain return on the funds and efforts invested in the MBA. There are several possibilities to make the right choice. A business school should be evaluated according to certain indicators. Here are some of them RANEPA.

Thus, according to the People's rating compiled by independent experts (980 graduates of various BS RF 2013–2015 acted in their role), the IBDA RANEPA became one of the leaders. He received the maximum number of votes in terms of personal and professional development, the usefulness of established connections, income growth, and career growth. No less indicative is the rating compiled by the Eduniversal agency. The survey involved 1000 deans of various business schools. According to the results of polls, palm trees are awarded. The more of them, the higher the rating of the school. So, IBDA RANEPA belongs to 4 palm trees. The university is included in the elite league TOP Business School, and its programs are among the best in 2016-2018.

Availability of licenses and accreditation.

IBDA is part of the RANEPA. RANEPA has a license to conduct educational activities, as well as a certificate of state accreditation.

Membership in associations and organizations.

IBDA RANEPA is one of the initiators of the creation of the NASDOBR association, which accredits additional education programs. The university is a member of AACSB International, EFMD, Executive MBA Council (EMBAC), General Management Admission Council (GMAC), CEEMAN, International Business School Alliance (IBSA), Russian Business Education Association (RABO), Russian Managers Association (AMR).

Program accreditation.

This is one of the main indicators of their quality and recognition by experts. The RANEPA IBDA programs are accredited by AMBA, NASDOBR, which indicates that international experts have recognized their high quality.

List of programs of the school itself.

It is also important, as it helps to choose the most sought-after and prestigious specialty. We offer a list of IBDA RANEPA programs.

Direction of training	Form of study	Price
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
	evening modular weekend blended	RUB 997,000 (tuition fee for 21 months)
Additional options MBA programs:
An MBA program option with the opportunity to obtain a Master of Management degree. In addition to the cost of the MBA program 150,000 rubles.
	evening modular weekend	RUB 639,000
						RUB 1,745,000
Additional option of the Executive MBA program:
An EMBA program option with the opportunity to obtain a Master of Management degree. In addition to the cost of the EMBA program 150,000 rubles.
DBA - Doctor business administration
		RUB 1,650,000
Executive MBA Antwerp Management School
		€ 19,100 + 400,000 rubles (Training part of three joint field modules (China, USA and Belgium) INCLUDED in the cost of training)
Master (with work experience)
	weekend modular evening

The concept of "MBA" in Russia appeared relatively recently, which is why MBA diplomas received in Russian universities are treated with a certain degree of distrust. However, practice convincingly proves that the MBA programs of leading Russian universities are practically in no way inferior to their foreign counterparts. And today we invite you to find out in which leading universities you can get an MBA degree, and what higher education institutions can offer their students.

Proper Management business in modern economic conditions is a decisive factor in the successful development and prosperity of any enterprise, regardless of the direction of its activity. Therefore, it is not surprising that business owners today prefer to trust the management of their company only to qualified specialists who have received MBA degree.

What is an MVA? Master of Business Administration - a qualification degree, the receipt of which indicates that a specialist can carry out managerial work at a high level and occupy positions in the field senior management. The MBA degree is an indicator of the theoretical and practical training of a specialist and a key qualification for career growth in management

It should be noted that in Russia the concept of "MBA" appeared relatively recently (to be more precise, in the early 2000s), which is why MBA diplomas obtained in Russian universities are treated with a certain degree of distrust (they say, we still high-quality MBA programs have not yet been developed). However, practice shows convincingly that MBA programs of leading Russian universities practically in no way inferior to their foreign counterparts. And today we invite you to find out in which leading universities you can get an MBA degree, and what higher education institutions can offer their students. But first, let's figure out what types professional programs MBAs exist.

Types of professional programs of the Master of Business Administration

generally accepted classification curricula MBA for this moment does not exist. But, taking the form of education as a criterion, we can divide them into groups:

• traditional full-time programs (Full time MBA);
• full-time education (Part Time MBA), the time of which can be regulated, for example, they can be held in the evening or in a modular format;
• special in-depth programs (EMBA - Executive MBA), which are aimed at senior managers who are undergoing advanced training or retraining;
• mini-courses providing basic material (Mini MBA). Only the most relevant issues are discussed in the classroom. business management;
• programs focused on the distance learning process (Distance-learning MBA).

The term of study in MBA programs depends on the chosen program and can last from several months to several years.

Rating of the most popular MBA programs

Abroad, the ratings of the most authoritative MBA training programs are published every year in publications with a worldwide reputation: "Financial Times", "US News", "Business Week". In our country, the ratings are, as a rule, either specialized publications or Internet job portals. In particular, in 2014, such publications as Sekret Firmy, CEO, Elite Personnel, the MBA community Narodny Rating business schools MBA.SU", "Russian MBA League" and the portal "Superjob".

It is noteworthy that the TOP-5 of almost all the publications listed above is almost completely identical, which once again confirms the impartiality of the research. So, according to the research of domestic business publications, the TOP-5 domestic MBA programs are as follows:

1. Moscow School of Management Skolkovo

The business school offers classical MBA and Executive MBA programs at English language. Online distance learning is also possible. Mandatory requirements are a completed higher education, 3 years of experience in the management field and knowledge of the English language at a high level.

Advantages: modular format (4 days per month), qualified teachers, modern approaches to the presentation of the material, an emphasis on practical skills, the availability of a campus for living, international modules in the structure of the program (17 subject modules are designed for 18 months of study). The cost of training is 60 thousand euros.

2. Graduate School of Marketing of the State University of Management

Diversity MBA programs(directions: business administration and marketing) allow you to choose exactly the form that will satisfy your needs. A prerequisite is the presence of a higher economic, humanitarian, technical education and at least two years of management experience. Training is carried out in full-time, part-time and evening form and lasts 2 years.

Features of the educational process: individual adjustment of the program, development of managerial skills through innovative projects and business games, remote Internet technologies, as well as foreign internships. The cost of training is 450,000 rubles for 2 years, 270,000 rubles for 1 year and 4 months.

3. RANEPA Institute of Business and Economics in collaboration with California State University, East Bay

Russian-American MBA program accredited by AACSB International, which is carried out in English. Among the most significant advantages, it should be noted the opportunity to combine studies at a business school with studies at a university (subject to availability managerial experience). In addition, the student has the opportunity to complete an American master's program and continue his studies in America.

It is impossible not to mention such advantages as support for the online learning format, a large library fund, qualified teaching staff, availability programs professional retraining and bilingual teaching.

Mandatory conditions for admission: higher education (not lower than the degree of "bachelor"), knowledge of English (exam), work experience of at least 2 years, a successful result test tasks(in which there are tasks for logic and ingenuity). The cost of education is 975 thousand rubles.

4. International Institute of the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, RANEPA, Russian-British (Kingston University) MBA program

Curricula are structured into the categories "Business Education", "International Master's", "Bachelor's", " Additional education". All of them are accredited by the Association of MBAs (AMBA). The form of training is modular and consists of 5 sessions per year.

Features: international internship, participation in the Western business community, the possibility of obtaining an Executive MBA diploma from Kingston University Business School, 4 modular courses to choose from at the request of the student, teaching in English and Russian. The cost of training is 1,040,000 rubles for 24 months of study (a phased payment option is possible).

5. Institute of Business Administration and Business of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

The Institute offers students a huge variety of MBA programs (Full-time MBA, Part-time MBA, modular MBA programs, MBA programs in weekend format, distance MBA programs, Doctor of business administration(DBA), Executive MBA, Mini MBA), which are implemented in such areas as: finance, banking management, HR management and business value management. Training is carried out for 2 years, and at the end of it the graduate receives an international diploma.

Advantages: teachers and experts of the highest class, international internships and work of students in research institutes. The cost of education directly depends on the choice of the program and ranges from 228-450 thousand rubles.

Instead of a conclusion

Rankings of MBA programs are usually created as a result of in-depth analysis of data from business schools and a survey of their graduates. Therefore, it is necessary to understand that any TOPs are subjective, as they are based not only on facts and statistics, but also on the opinions of people (in other words, the human factor has a great influence on ratings).

Choosing an MBA program, first of all, should depend on your goals, preparation and desire to develop. Knowledge is the key to all doors, and whatever university you choose, if the "key" is of high quality, it will open the lock of any complexity.

Learning business is good where you are going to do it: for those who are interested in Russia, studying an MBA in Moscow or St. Petersburg may be more useful than in Wharton or Insead. Forbes has chosen business education programs in Russian schools accredited by the prestigious Association of MBA (AMBA). Some of them offer grants for students, and almost all have discounts in the summer.

Higher School of International Business (RANEPA)

As many as four business schools with AMBA accreditation are part of the structure of the Russian Academy National economy and public service. Thus, the Higher School of International Business was accredited in 2007, and received a license update in April 2012.

The school offers five programs - from evening MBA courses to Executive MBA. In June, recruitment is in full swing, and discounts are provided if documents are submitted before July 1. In addition, the school has an additional system of discounts - for example, a 5% discount is given if there is a recommendation from a graduate of GSMB. There is no system of grants and scholarships.

AMBA accreditation of this institute for two programs - MBA "Strategy" and MBA The Open University Business School - is valid until 2016. At the same time, the partner of the institute, the School of Business of the Open University of Great Britain, has, in addition to AMBA accreditation, accreditation of two other major associations - the European Foundation for Management Development and The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. In total, there are about 50 business schools with three accreditations in the world. LINK offers a system of discounts (up to 15% in total), grants for studying in last years not at the institute.

Moscow International Higher School of Business "Mirbis"

At the beginning of 2014, Mirbis appeared in the news in connection with the suspension of the license of Rosobrnadzor, but this problem was successfully resolved, and the institute now has all the documents required by Russian laws for training. But the accreditation of Mirbis from AMBA is valid until July 2014, and at the end of June a commission will come to the institute for re-accreditation. The school offers two accredited MBA programs and one MA in management. There are no grants or scholarships at Mirbis, but there are discounts.

Plekhanov School of Business Integral at the PRUE Plekhanov

Since September 2011, Integral has been accredited by AMBA (the program was first accredited in Russia among the first in 2001), and the head of the school, Larisa Kartashova, is a member of the international accreditation council of the association. The school has three MBA programs and a basic department of the Russian Technologies State Corporation. There are no grants and scholarships, for Pleshka graduates and those who already have an economic or management education, - special conditions.

Moscow Financial and Industrial University "Synergy"

The university, which offers online and offline education, has campuses in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Dubai. Synergy was one of the first companies in Russia to receive AMBA accreditation in 2001. The current accreditation of eight programs, updated in October 2011, is about to expire: the business school is waiting for the AMBA commission in the coming days. Synergy does not offer grants, but offers discounts.

Graduate School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

Three SPbU faculty programs have been accredited by AMBA until March 2018. Among them is an MBA with a double diploma from the University of St. Petersburg and the Higher Commercial School of Paris (training is conducted in English). In addition to it, St Petersburg University offers Executive MBA programs and corporate training.

Four of the Institute's programs (including one jointly with Gazprom) are accredited by AMBA. The association's website claims that in one of the accredited programs, education is conducted in Spanish - the website of the institute itself, however, is silent about this. The St. Petersburg Institute does not offer any system of grants, scholarships or discounts.

Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO and Stockholm School of Economics in Russia

Finally, two schools that do not have AMBA accreditation, but which still deserve a mention. The SKOLKOVO Business School is distinguished by the fact that the most famous Russian businessmen took part in its founding: they still regularly give guest lectures. In Skolkovo, you can get a grant of up to €30,000 for education. The Stockholm School of Economics is an educational institution from the top 100 ranking of the Financial Times, whose branch operates in Russia without joint programs with other institutions, unlike other top Western schools. It offers trainees referral discounts and concessional tuition loans.

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"Good morning everyone!
Dear Administration, I ask you to acquaint the owners of the business school with this letter. I have a proposal to improve the quality of education in the distance learning system. The materialization of my proposal will take several tens of minutes.
There is a "Ratings" tab in your personal account. Quote from there: "The winner of the ranking is determined by the number of courses completed in the current week. The student who completed the week the largest number courses and the one who takes 1st place in the ranking receives an original certificate for any completed course as a gift!"
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Graduates from reputable business schools can progress faster and have higher incomes than non-business students. The factor of the reputation of the educational institution plays an increasingly important role. According to the results of a survey of graduates, the portal "MBA in Moscow and Russia" has formed the next, seventh in a row, "People's rating" of the best Russian MBA schools.

For the past five years, Russian business schools have predominantly focused on managers aged 25-35. The study "MBA in Moscow and Russia" (www.mba.su) showed that the group of 36-40 years old accounts for about a third of students, and managers age group 41+ are numerically only slightly inferior to young people.

More than 70% of survey participants noted that they began to receive business education, working in the positions of middle and top managers, 10% - in the status of business owners. Four years later (two years of study plus two years after graduation), the share of middle managers decreased by 19%. Accordingly, the shares of senior managers (up to 52%) and business owners (up to 21%) almost doubled.

The majority of graduates of domestic business schools, according to the survey, are men (in some - up to 89%), but in schools with a predominantly younger audience, the proportion of women is higher.

Performance criteria

One of the main indicators of the effectiveness of MBA studies around the world is the level of income two years after the end of the program. In most cases, MBA graduates improve their career position, accompanied by an increase in income. According to mba.su, the income of middle managers after an MBA grows by an average of 44%, top managers - by 57%, business owners - by 96%. Even in the case of zero career growth, MBA graduates record an increase in income by 29-54%.

On average, across business schools whose alumni participated in the survey, their income growth two years after graduation from the MBA program was 54%. As a result of the training, 11% of middle and top managers became business owners.

The incentives for income growth do not come down to the very presence of a diploma, but to those new opportunities for influencing the overall success of a business that the expertise provides. The new education helps organize your work in a different way and increase the efficiency of work processes. The development of soft skills aimed at leadership skills, emotional intelligence, and effective communications is becoming increasingly important.

№	Business School	Place, 2016	Sum points	Evaluation of learning outcomes by graduates
				Income increase	Career	Business connections	Personal and Professional Development
	Graduate School of Management, St. Petersburg State University	1	17,52	4,08	4,08	4,36	5,00
	Institute of Business and Business Administration RANEPA		17,52	4,33	4,12	4,13	4,94
	MBA & EMBA Kingston / RANEPA (Institute of Social Sciences RANEPA)		17,52	4,25	4,35	4,25	4,67
	MGIMO School of Business and International Competences	2	17,35	3,95	4,30	4,40	4,70
	Institute of Business Administration and Business Financial University		17,34	3,86	4,29	4,38	4,81
	GUU Graduate School of Business		17,33	3,98	4,14	4,31	4,90
	Moscow International Higher School of Business MIRBIS	3	17,23	4,32	4,24	3,81	4,86
	School of IT Management, Faculty of Economics, RANEPA		17,22	4,11	4,14	4,05	4,92
	graduate School corporate governance RANEPA		17,21	4,19	4,23	4,17	4,62
	Higher School of Finance and Management RANEPA	4	16,75	4,10	3,95	3,85	4,85
	IMISP Business School (St. Petersburg)		16,73	3,80	4,05	3,93	4,95
	MBA center(business school) of the Ural Federal University (Yekaterinburg)		16,72	3,94	4,00	4,28	4,50
	Faculty of Economics, Moscow State University M.V., Lomonosov	5	16,53	4,10	4,00	3,76	4,67
	PlekhanovskayaSchool of Business Intregral Russian University of Economics G.V. Plekhanov		16,50	4,06	4,17	3,83	4,44
	Graduate School of Business of Kazan Federal University (Kazan)	6	16,47	3,96	3,92	3,67	4,92
	graduate School business informatics NRU HSE		16,46	3,94	3,98	3,67	4,87
	International Business School of the Financial University	7	16,30	3,79	3,71	4,00	4,80
	Baikal International Business School of Irkutsk state university(Irkutsk)		16,30	3,92	3,92	3,75	4,71
	Institute of Communication Management HSE	8	16,12	3,81	4,06	3,75	4,50
	Business School of Moscow Financial and Law University		16,11	3,74	3,74	3,76	4,87
	Higher Commercial School VAVT		16,09	3,18	3,73	4,18	5,00
	International Institute of Management LINK		16,09	3,80	3,68	3,70	4,91
	VAVT Business School	9	16,00	3,60	3,70	4,00	4,70
	EMAS Business School (Nizhny Novgorod)	10	15,80	3,40	3,20	4,40	4,80
	Synergy Business School	11	15,40	3,70	3,75	3,30	4,65
	HSE Banking Institute	12	15,07	3,77	3,15	3,69	4,46
	Moscow Business School	13	14,58	3,49	3,57	2,80	4,72