Major 38.03.02 Management
Concentration: "Project management, controlling and consulting"
4 years
Instruction mode: full-time and mixed full- and part-time (full-time and distance learning)

The program started in 1991. This was the first experience of organizing international university programs of higher education in Russia, accredited simultaneously in Russia and the USA. Over the years, there have been dual diploma programs (Russia and the USA), modular units for foreign students (China, Mongolia, the USA, France, and Africa), internship and student exchange programs and partnership programs with leading universities in Russia.

Currently, all the experience of international business education accumulated for over 30 years is used to train specialists who will get the diploma of Irkutsk State University.

The program is designed with the help of modern information technologies and relies on the experience of practicing teachers. This allows students to gain not only the necessary amount of theoretical knowledge, but also practical skills of the future profession. The educational process is based on individual approach. More than 50% of in-class instruction for the 1st- and 2nd-year students is arranged in small groups of up to 10 people. Throughout the entire period of studies, classroom instruction applies active learning: business games, trainings, projects, case studies, excursions, consultations, industrial practice, scientific and practical conferences, etc.

The main goal of the bachelor's degree program is to lay the foundation for building a future career and acquire skills of strategic thinking, extracting information from online resources, and modern communication skills, including an English course and two computer science courses as part of modern communications and as part of a modern analytical apparatus and work with neural networks.

Full-time instruction works well with education based on modern information technologies which allow motivated students to gain unique experience in developing competencies that are important for a manager.

SAF teaching methods successfully combine the classical university approach with practice-oriented business education technologies. Every year, SAF holds case competitions, student debates, open lectures, scientific and practical conferences, round tables, and strategic sessions with businessmen and politicians as invited experts.

Nadezhda Grosheva, Director of Baikal International Business School of Irkutsk State University, Doctor of Economics, Dean of SAF:
- The business school has historically paid and continues to pay great attention to the practical training of students in the educational process. We invite practicing teachers from various spheres (bankers, politicians, entrepreneurs, and business leaders), arrange educational and professional trips to the leading enterprises in our city. During the training process, students examine real practical examples of regional and federal companies, work on real projects, solving problems set by our partners.

Baikal International Business School of Irkutsk State University is a successfully operating educational project. In the ever-changing competitive labor market, graduates of the business school can change functional responsibilities or concentration throughout their professional career. They are equally successful in the field of finance, management, marketing or logistics.

The fact that many graduates continue education by taking master's or MBA programs at leading Russian and foreign universities and business schools proves the high competitiveness of the bachelor's degree program.

Business management has its own specifics - a set of tools related to current and strategic planning, personnel management, marketing, finance, risk management, etc. Mastering this toolkit is mandatory for business school graduates.