Saint Petersburg State University Graduate School of Management

The Graduate School of Management (also known as GSOM) (Russian: Высшая школа менеджмента Санкт-Петербургского государственного университета, ВШМ СПбГУ) is the business school of Saint Petersburg State University. GSOM offers undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate programs taught in English and Russian. It is consistently ranked among the top business schools in Europe.[3][4] GSOM’s Master in Management degree is the only MiM program in Russia ranked by the Financial Times and The Economist.[5][6]

Graduate School of Management, St. Petersburg University
Высшая школа менеджмента СПбГУ
Established1993
Academic affiliation
Saint Petersburg State University
DirectorOlga Dergunova
Head of SchoolKonstantin Krotov
Students1200[1]
Location
Saint Petersburg
,
Russia
CampusUrban/suburban
NicknameGSOM SPbU
MascotFreddie the Owl[2]
Websitegsom.spbu.ru/en

History
  • 25 May 1992: The University's Academic Council votes for creating the School of Management
  • 4 November 1992: The University signs a cooperation agreement with Haas School of Business
  • 25 January 1993: The University Rector signs an order on opening the School
  • 1 September 1993: The School starts teaching. It counts six professors and 33 bachelor students. The first dean is elected Prof. Yu. V. Pashkus (Russian: Ю. В. Пашкус). The School is supervised by an International Advisory Board chaired by John E. Pepper, Jr., CEO, Procter & Gamble.
  • 1994: The first two chairs appear: Management Theory and Public Administration.
  • 1995: The School opens a Career Center.
  • 1996: The School is renamed into Faculty. Another chair, Finance, is opened. The Faculty receives a new facility in Volkhovsky Pereulok.
  • 1997: The Faculty congratulates its first 27 graduates. Upon Prof. Pashkus's death, Valery Katkalo is elected the dean. Admission is broadened with:
    • Specialist's degrees in Management, Marketing, HR;
    • Master's degree in Management;
    • Candidate of Sciences' degree in Management.
  • 1998: The Faculty opens two more chairs: HR and Strategic Management & Marketing.
  • 1999: The Faculty greets its first 19 Masters and opens an English-speaking ECTS-compliant program, Master of International Business, in cooperation with four Nordic business schools.
  • 2000: The Faculty launches its first MBA program, two new chairs: International Management and Information Management, Management Consultancy Center, and Publishing Center.
  • 2001: The Faculty greets its first 22 graduates in Public Administration.
  • 2002: The Faculty opens its new premises in Volkhovsky Pereulok, greets its first 27 MBA graduates and launches its first research journal. An alumni association is created.
  • 2003: The Faculty launches its second research journal, the Russian Management Journal (Russian: Российский журнал менеджмента, РЖМ).
  • 2004: The Faculty creates its R&D institute, signs an agreement with four European business schools to create an International Executive MBA (IEMBA) program, and joins AACSB.
  • 2005: Most programs have transferred to the Bologna model, the Faculty starts offering Doktor Nauk's degree.
  • 2006: The Faculty joins CEMS and EFMD and launches an Executive MBA (EMBA) program. President Vladimir Putin lays a cornerstone into the foundation of the school's new campus in Mikhailovka, a former royal estate in Petergof.
  • 2007: The Graduate School of Management is created by uniting the Faculty and Institute of Management, with a new Advisory Board headed by Deputy Prime Minister Sergey Ivanov.
  • 2008: GSOM launches corporate education programs in cooperation with Fuqua School of Business, joins PIM, and gets accredited by AMBA (Executive MBA) and EPAS (Bachelor's).
  • 2009: GSOM joins GMAC and launches a Dual-Degree Executive MBA program in cooperation with HEC Paris.[7]

Programs
  1. Bachelor's degree:
    • International Management
    • Financial Management
    • Marketing
    • Information Management
    • HR Management
    • Logistics
  2. Master's degree:
    • Master in Management (MiM)
    • Master in Business Analytics and Big Data (MiBA)
    • Master in Corporate Finance (MCF)
    • Master in Urban Management and Development (MUMD)
  3. Master's dual-degree:
    • within the MiM, MiBA, MCF programs
    • CEMS Master in International Management (CEMS MiM)
    • HEC-Paris
    • School of Business, Lappeenranta University of Technology
  4. Executive Education:
    • Executive MBA
      • Dual-Degree Executive MBA in English
      • Executive MBA in Russian
    • Corporate Education
    • Open Programs
    • Professional Development Programs
  5. Candidate's and Doctor's degrees[8]

Faculty and structure

Director

The Director of the Graduate School of Management St. Petersburg University is Olga Dergunova, Deputy President and Chairman of the VTB Bank Management Board.[9][10]

Advisory Council

GSOM is supervised by the Advisory Council chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov. Among its members are:

Chairs
  • Finance and Accounting (headed by Prof. Alexander Bukhvalov)
  • IT in Management (headed by Prof. Tatiana Gavrilova)
  • Marketing (headed by Prof. Sergey Kouchtch)
  • Operations Management (headed by Assoc. Prof. Yury Fedotov)
  • Organizational Behavior and Personnel Management (headed by Prof. Vera Minina)
  • Public Administration (headed by Assoc. Prof. Olga Patokina)
  • Strategic and International Management (headed by Prof. Valery Katkalo)[12]

Faculty and students

GSOM employs 65 full-time faculty members and over 150 professors from other faculties of the university and international business schools, as well as leading management practitioners.[13] They teach 1,122 students: 651 undergraduate, 251 graduate (221 at Master's, 40 at Candidate's), 155 MBA, 65 at professional development programs.[14]

Premises and facilities

GSOM is headquartered in the Arthur B. Schultz building at 1-3 Volkhovsky Pereulok on Vasilievsky Island, which houses the administration, library, publishing house, and post-graduate programs.[15] In 2006, the school was granted Grand Duke Mikhail Romanov's former summer estate in Petergof to redevelop it and create a suburban campus. The Mikhailovskaya Dacha campus was opened in 2015 and houses all undergraduate programs.[16]

Rankings and accreditations

In 2012 GSOM obtained institutional accreditation EQUIS (European Quality Improvement System). The quality of educational programs is approved by program accreditations: AMBA (Executive МВА) and EPAS (Bachelor).

GSOM SPbU is a member of global associations of the leading business schools: EFMD, AACSB, CEMS, PIM, EABIS, GBSN, GRLI.

According to EdUniversal ranking since 2008 GSOM SPbU is the first among Russian business schools, and in 2013 EdUniversal agreed for the second time that GSOM SPbU is the best among business schools of Eastern Europe. The Izvestia newspaper ranking (2011, 2012, 2013), based on interviews with MBA graduates, named GSOM as the first among Russian business schools.[17]

2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Financial Times Masters in Management[18] 65 56 46 39 23 23 27 41
Financial Times European Business Schools[19] - - - 64 57 52 59 51
Which MBA? The Economist Masters in Management[20][21] - - - - 37 - 38 -
QS World University Rankings Masters in Management[22] - - - - - 83 97 94
QS World University Rankings Masters in Finance[23] - - - - - 69 101+ 101+
National rating of Russian business schools from MBA.SU[24] 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 2

See also

References
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  2. "Freddy". GSOM SPbU. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
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  4. "Masters in Management 2019 Ranking". The Economist. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
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  6. "Masters in Management 2019 Ranking". The Economist. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
  7. "GSOM History (ru)".
  8. "GSOM's programs (ru)".
  9. "Leadership". Graduate School of Management SPbU. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
  10. "Olga Dergunova". VTB Bank. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
  11. "GSOM Board (ru)".
  12. "GSOM's Chairs (ru)".
  13. "About GSOM (ru)".
  14. "GSOM's programs & students (ru)".
  15. "Arthur Schultz Campus in the Center of Saint Petersburg".
  16. "Mikhailovskaya Dacha Campus".
  17. "About GSOM".
  18. "Masters in Management 2020". rankings.ft.com. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  19. "European Business School Rankings 2020". rankings.ft.com. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  20. "Masters in Management 2017". The Economist. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
  21. "Masters in Management 2019 Ranking". The Economist. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
  22. "World University Rankings - Masters In Management". Top Universities. 2020-01-10. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  23. "World University Rankings - Masters In Finance 2020". Top Universities. 2020-01-10. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  24. "Народный рейтинг MBA.SU". www.mba.su. Retrieved 2020-01-10.

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