Programme Focus
The mission (social significance) of programme 38.06.01 “Economics” for training of top-qualification personnel (postgraduate studies) is the following: training of researchers, research instructors, who are able to carry out the research activity in the field of economics and the teaching activity under higher education programmes with consideration for modern requirements.
The goal of programme 38.06.01 “Economics” for training of top-qualification personnel (postgraduate studies) is for the students to develop personality traits complying with the requirements of the modern economy for working at higher education institutions, research organizations, and other structures that carry out research and training of citizens, as well as to form universal, general professional and professional competences in accordance with the requirements of RUDN’s ES of HE/FSES of HE for this field of study.
Programme advantages
In the course of implementation of postgraduate programme 38.06.01 “Economics”, electronic learning and distance learning technologies can be applied. For training of persons with disabilities and with special needs, the electronic learning and distance learning technologies must provide for receipt and transfer of information in such forms that would be accessible for them.
The analysis of the condition and the development trends of the research and educational activity in the sphere of economics shows that formation and management of researchers’ and research instructors’ knowledge base is an important factor for the increase of the potential and competitive capability of the national higher education institutions, research organizations and innovatively active companies carrying out the scientific and educational activity.
The modern educational, research and other innovatively active organizations are badly in need of professional research economists and economists-research instructors, who are able to develop the scientific and pedagogical activity and possess the corresponding technologies and skills.
The demand for graduates of Principal Educational Programme 38.06.01 “Economics” for training of top-qualification personnel (postgraduate studies) was determined by the head of the programme based on the analysis of the Russian labor market of scientific and academic workers in the sphere of economics. All the graduates of this programme find employment successfully.
Graduates’ expertise and career opportunities
The area of professional engagement for the graduates who have mastered postgraduate programme 38.06.01 “Economics” includes economic theory, macroeconomic management, regulation and planning, economics and management of enterprises, industries and interindustry complexes, management, marketing, logistics, innovation management, finances, money circulation and credit, accounting, statistics, mathematical and instrumental methods of economics, world economics, entrepreneurship economics.
The subject fields of postgraduate students’ training under Programme 38.06.01 “Economics” are as follows:
a) in the sphere of research activity in the field of economics:
- fundamental research in the field of economic theory and finances;
- research in the field of the history of economic processes, the history of economic doctrines and development of the economic analysis methodology;
- research of the national and global financial systems;
- national, territorial and local finances;
- business entities’ finances;
- economic entities’ finances;
- the securities market and the foreign currency market;
- the insurance services market;
- the money market, monetary system and money turnover;
- valuation activity;
- credit relations, banks and other financial organizations;
- development and elaboration of mathematical and instrumental methods of economic analysis, methods of analysis of economic statistics and accounting;
- applied economic research based on the fundamental methods of economic analysis;
- research of the problems of formation and development of the theory and practice for management of organizations as social and economic systems for the purpose of disclosure of stable relations and regularities determining the nature and subject matter of those problems, the logics and mechanisms of their solution;
- identification, analysis and solution of the problems of the national economy’s innovative development, management of the main parameters of innovation processes in the contemporary
economy, scientific-technological and organizational renewal of socioeconomic systems, and also of the methods and instruments for appraisal of the innovation activity results;
- planning, organization and management of material, informational, financial and human resource flows for the purpose of their rationalization;
- research disclosing the sources and mechanisms for achievement of competitive advantages in the contemporary markets by firms, the most recent phenomena and trends in the global practice of company management;
- fundamental and applied research of industrial, regional and global markets; of the market entities’ organizational and economic activity;
- development of theoretical and methodological principles, methods and techniques for management of social and economic systems;
- analysis of the current trends and forecasts of the economy's development, definition of scientifically grounded organizational and economic forms of activity;
- improvement of methods of management and government regulation.
b) in the sphere of teaching activity under higher educational programmes:
- development of academic courses in the professional activity fields, including based on the results of the conducted theoretical and empirical research, which includes preparation of educational materials, training aids and textbooks;
- teaching of economic disciplines, as well as teaching and methodological work in the fields of professional activity;
- carrying out research work at the educational establishment including supervision of the students’ research work.