Banks and Banking

The aim of the educational program is to train highly qualified specialists with deep knowledge and skills in the field of banking; capable of analyzing and predicting the processes occurring in the banking systems of Russia and foreign countries; capable of making reasonable management decisions in various areas of banking based on risk management standards; capable of working creatively with modern foreign and domestic special scientific literature; having the necessary knowledge and skills to analyze the creditworthiness of borrowers and the financial stability of commercial banks.

Major Academic Disciplines

• current problems of the state budget and tax policy
• current problems of finance
• analysis and current problems of the Russian banking sector
• bank marketing
• international monetary and credit relations in the post-crisis economy
• supervision of the activities of commercial banks
• credit relations infrastructure
• risk management system in a commercial bank
• assessment of the stability and efficiency of banks’ activities
• modern banking: fundamentals and directions of modernization
• modern information technologies in economic science and practice
• modern credit products and technologies of the banking business
• strategic management in a commercial bank
• strategy and modern management model in the field of monetary relations
• financial and monetary regulation methods
• financial markets, financial and credit institutions
• financial monitoring of credit institutions’ activities

Professions for Graduates

• economist
• financier
• banker
• marketer
• analyst
• accountant
• manager
• auditor

In addition, graduates of our department are engaged in scientific research in the sphere of finance, monetary circulation and credit, economics and management, regional economics, economic theory, successfully defend their PhD dissertations. They are also engaged in teaching activities, working in the positions of associate professor and senior lecturer.

Graduates scope of employment

Graduates of our department work in banks and companies in Russia and abroad, in government entities and educational organizations

• banks
• state and municipal governments
• audit firms
• financial and economic departments in organizations
• insurance companies