About the Programme

Investment projects are already shaping our future today. The programme is aimed at developing the key competencies of a project manager of almost any scale and complexity, implemented both by private companies and within the framework of public-private partnerships, and combines two areas: project management and investment management, integrating organizational and financial aspects of project management. The financial block allows you to obtain the necessary competencies primarily for planning and evaluating a project, and the managerial block allows you to provide competencies that will allow you to initiate and successfully implement this project.

Advantages of the Programme:

• Integration of different directions in one program: project management, finance, investment, strategic management.
• The presence of a large number of unique author's courses developed from scratch specifically for the program by practical teachers with extensive experience in project management and evaluation, and research teachers who are at the forefront of international science in this field.
• Close ties with business, which make it possible to attract business teachers to conduct individual courses, and also provide students with the opportunity to immerse themselves in project work from the first year, solving actual problems in real partner companies of the program, analyzing real investment projects and their features.
• International integration, which is expressed primarily in compliance of the programme courses with international standards for project management: PMBoK, ICB, P2M, ISO, etc., as well as in the field of investment assessment and management decision-making: CIMA. In addition, in the second year students have the opportunity to continue their studies abroad at business schools: ESCP, Paris-12, Laval, Lancaster, etc.

Programme Courses

The structure of the programme assumes serious knowledge of basic management disciplines at the bachelor's standard level, therefore, the program includes a block of adaptation courses that contribute to better inclusion in programs at the initial stage of training. The main part of the programme is an interconnected complex of advanced disciplines in strategic analysis, finance, project management, investment and innovation and aimed at providing students with the stated competencies.

The compulsory disciplines of the programme are divided into two large blocks:

1) three mandatory courses that form basic competencies in the field of research, strategic management and finance;

2) six disciplines forming the core of professional competencies related to investment and financial decision-making, business planning, project and risk management, implementation of digital transformation of business and ecosystems, digital models and project management tools.

The variable part of the programme includes:

1) selection of 3 out of 6 different special disciplines dedicated to management of consulting projects, financial modeling and forecasting, management of engineering, venture projects, management of transformational programs, project team management.

2) 3 courses from a variety of university-wide pool of disciplines: "Magolego", the choice of which will be helped by an academic mentor. There is an opportunity to take adaptation courses at the very beginning of training for a more complete development of the key courses of the programme.

The key seminars of the programme are represented by research seminars necessary for writing a master's thesis, as well as project seminars related to the practical development of project managers' competencies.

Course projects are carried out in teams and are associated with solving real cases in partner companies of the programme.

Career Trajectories:

Graduates of the programme have the competencies to work as project managers, specialists of project offices and strategic development departments of large companies and government agencies, investment analysts, venture investment specialists.

Our graduates are in demand in different companies:

• Large vertically integrated companies in the energy, oil and gas, engineering, high-tech and other sectors of the national economy
• Medium and small industrial enterprises implementing investment projects
• Consulting companies engaged in the implementation and support of investment projects in companies
• Venture funds and private equity funds
• Innovative enterprises, including those within technoparks, regional innovative scientific and technical zones and science cities.

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