> St. Petersburg University Graduate School of Management:
20 Years in Search of Global Excellence
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his year St. Petersburg University GSOM, the leading Russian business school, is celebrating its 20th anniversary and its work for the achievement of excellence in business education.
have seen first-hand the great value that the selfevaluation at the root of the accreditation process can bring to a school”, says Sergey P. Kushch, Deputy Dean of GSOM SPbU.
It was started from scratch in 1993 as the first business school inside a major Russian university, to support the country’s transition to a market economy. Established in partnership with UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, the School has followed its strategic priorities of academic excellence, international outlook and corporate connections. Since its inception, GSOM has been determined to create an atmosphere where future national and global leaders through knowledge and experience help each other to grow, both personally and professionally. By combining world class education standards with our international recognition, partnerships and first-class corporate links, GSOM has established itself as one the most internationally recognized Russian business schools and is well on its way to becoming a major player on the international stage. As the Faculty of Management of Russia’s top research university, GSOM aims to set the standard for the country’s academic business schools. Since 1993, the School has developed an extensive research-based teaching programme that includes a Bachelor’s, pre-experience Master’s, Doctoral, Executive MBA and nondegree executive courses. All of the school’s programmes share a strong international focus, which is supported by strategic links with a number of prominent academic institutions with which it conducts joint educational and research projects. These include HEC Paris, the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University in North Carolina, Vienna University of Economics and Business, and the Aalto University School of Economics in Helsinki. GSOM has earned the international EFMD EQUIS accreditation, the EPAS accreditation for its Bachelor’s programme, and is AMBA accredited for its Executive MBA. St Petersburg University GSOM was the first school in Russia and CIS awarded EQUIS accreditation for three years and EPAS accreditation for the maximum five years,. “I
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As the only Russian member of the leading business education networks CEMS (the global alliance of leading business schools) under which the top-ranked CEMS Master of International