Public Administration and Economics

The specialty "Public Administration and Economics" provides a practice-oriented nature of the learning process and academic mobility of students.

The training program provides for the formation of professional competencies of students in the field of:

• public administration, state regulation of the economy, management of foreign economic activity, organization management, strategic management, risk management;

• international economy, national economy of the country, regional economy, exchange trade;

• organization economics, business planning, marketing, finance and financial management, pricing, taxes and taxation, investment planning, logistics, accounting and auditing, business analysis;

• modern information technologies in management and economics;

• foreign languages (1 year of study – the language of social and domestic communications; 2 years – the language of professional communication; 1.5 years of study – optional second foreign language, including Chinese and Turkish).

Organization of field training sessions at modern enterprises (MAZ OJSC, MTZ RUE, Belarusian Universal Commodity Exchange OJSC, Kommunarka CJSC, Atlant CJSC) allows students to gain practical knowledge and skills. All students undergo educational practice, internship, economic and management practice and pre-diploma practice in government agencies and at leading enterprises of the republic and abroad (practice in government agencies and commercial organizations of St. Petersburg and Moscow).

Students have the opportunity to become a member of the scientific student club and try themselves in the role of researchers of current economic and managerial problems and ways to solve them.

The graduate possesses fundamental knowledge of technologies and methods of public administration, state regulation of the economy; management and economics of organizations, special knowledge in the field of business planning, investment design, marketing, pricing, finance and financial management, accounting and auditing, taxes and taxation, economic diagnostics of the organization, implementation of foreign economic operations and transactions, increasing the competitiveness of goods and services, development and justification of options for management decisions.

Graduates can continue their studies on master's educational programs both in Belarus and abroad.

Specialty "Public Administration and Economics" = management + economics + modern information technologies + in-depth study of foreign languages.

The acquisition of fundamental integrated knowledge enables graduates to carry out professional activities in the committees and departments of the economy of ministries, the Minsk City Executive Committee, district executive committees, district administrations at enterprises of various forms of ownership, small and medium-sized businesses, in commercial banks, customs, tax inspection, scientific institutions.