The MBA program (Master of Business Administration) is the program of master’s level.

The MBA program is the most world-spread program in the practice of professional education.

The MBA program of Belarusian State University is:

• seriousness and academism of education combined with practicality and application in real life of a leader among higher education establishments
• symbiosis of theory and practice of western and native methodologies, ideal situations and real limitations in which business is developing.

Graduators of the program are given the academic degree «Master of Business Administration» and state model certificate.

Graduators of the program MBS of BSU are the brainpower of Belarusian business, highly-educated and committed people that feel the necessity of constant professional growth.

• Forming broad opinion on business that allows managing any company despite the sphere of its activity
• Knowledge systematization, business management skills, ability to foreseen threats and prevent its negative consequences
• Possibility of studying in English language of business communication
• MBA degree makes the specialist more competitive on the labour-market, provides more choice
• MBA gives you extra freedom

Education is aimed on solving the following tasks:

1. Help to systemize the knowledge attained by experience, improve understanding of the company’s activity
2. Provide integral view about basic concepts of management
3. Develop skills that raise efficiency in taking managerial decisions in terms of rapid external environment changes
4. Develop skills of «joined up ways of working»
5. Further development of educational and cultural level

The program is targeted at people who have higher education (including those that are not connected with basic knowledge in the sphere of economics, finance and management). 2-year-record of service (after graduation) is obligatory.
The program prepares chief executive officers and executive staff — organizers of management process at enterprises, who can easily focus on basic spheres of business administration, set the problem, create the team and organize its functioning, control its work and results.
The listeners should be ready to participate actively in the process of education, inclined to work in team, have motivation and enough free time for studying.

Tendency to leader. The program is not of a particular speciality and in reality it is a program on general management aimed at directors but not at specialists. Special attention is drawn at systematization and synthesis of various aspects of the enterprise management.

Practicality of the education. Main management concepts are to attain passing knowledge of the subject.
Academic character of the program. The program is aimed at mastering management methods, developing independent search skills and decision-making on the basis of fundamental knowledge.

International character of the program. Content of the training courses reflects modern achievements of world theory and practice of management. Teaching is carried out by using modern cooperation results and majority of professors participate. Special courses and sections cover the management of international activity of a company.

Intensive character of the education and tension of the curriculum require high motivation of listeners. Education on the program is aimed at motivated students.

Interactive character of the education. Methodology of conducting lessons requires active participation of the listeners, desire and ability to participate willingly in the process of education.

Total duration of the education is two years. The training for the intake of students in 2010 will be carried out from September 2010 till June 2012. The program consists of three educational terms. Final term is devoted to preparing and defending master’s thesis.

The School provides various kinds of lessons: lectures, seminars and combined interactive classes.
Attendance and implementation of homework are obligatory condition of education process.

For everybody who wants to study in English (70-90% branches of learning are studied in English) has to pass a test (download the test) which includes auding, grammar test and interview. Results are estimated by 100 numerical score system. In the total the figure of oral interview and writing test should correspondingly be 60% and 40%. On the basis of testing the person is offered English-speaking or Russian-speaking group. To enter English-speaking group there should be no less than 80 scores.