Graduate School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

Business School

The Graduate School of Management (GSOM) is a semi-autonomous unit of St. Petersburg State University, the oldest institution of higher education in Russia. The GSOM business model is based on three balances:

  • a balance of University’s academic heritage and innovations crucial for a successful business school;
  • a balance in excellence in teaching and in research;
  • balance between the academic rigor and the practical relevance in teaching and research.
The Graduate School of Management at St. Petersburg State University became a part of the “National Priority Projects (NPP) in Education” in 2005 – with a mission to develop into a world-class business school in Russia by 2015, and to support a national goal of sustainable economic growth and rapid integration in the global economy. On April 25, 2006 the Federal Government issued a decree to establish GSOM on the foundation of the already working at St. Petersburg University  School of Management (SOM).  January 29, 2007 became an important date in the GSOM history: the Rector of St. Petersburg University issued the order to establish GSOM - after the University Academic Council supported the establishment of GSOM on June 26, 2006.

The mission of GSOM is to create a world-class Russian business school aimed at educating and advancing the national managerial elite to be able to meet the challenges of increasing competitiveness of Russia in the "knowledge economy" of the 21st century.
 
 

 

History

The SOM history started in 1993 when it was established as the first in Russia business school at the major national University. Those days the school had just 33 undergraduate students and 4 full-time faculty members and was a devoted to thorough development of the institution around three core assets:
  1. a strong dedication to further development of St. Petersburg University’s high academic reputation;
  2. a strategic partnership with SOM’s co-founding partner Haas School of Business at University of California at Berkeley;
  3. a very solid support by the GSOM International Advisory Board (such Advisory Board was established in Russia for the first time in history and in 1994-2002 was chaired by John Pepper, CEO of Procter&Gamble).
During the following 17 years the School demonstrated a strong dynamic growth to reach 1500 students and 3000 alumni members who graduated from SOM degree programs by 2009.  Already at that stage of development of GSOM, the School achieved recognition in modernization of the university education in Russia in many aspects (e.g. in teaching content and methods, internationalization level and development of strong corporate ties).    
 

GSOM Strengths:

International Accreditations

Graduate School of Management gained an unprecedented for a Russian business school international recognition through prestigious international accreditations – CEMS (Master Programs), AMBA (Executive MBA) и EPAS (Bachelor Program).
CEMS
AMBA
EPAS
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Development Stages

GSOM’s path towards the 2015 final goal of achieving the upper part of the international business schools consists of three development stages:

Stage 1. “Coming into Being” (2007-2010). By the end of this stage new graduate degree programs in English (i.e. a full-time MBA, dual EMBA, Master in Finance, Ph.D.) are launched to make the GSOM portfolio of graduate degree programs complete,  Also non-degree Executive Education programs (generic and customized) are developed and launched.  The first stage of the new GSOM campus is opened.

Stage 2. “Institutional Compatibility” (2011-2014). The goal of this stage is a dynamic growth of GSOM and achieving the “Triple Crown” international institutional accreditations which are a staple for the world recognition of any business-school excellence. Strong development of GSOM full-time faculty internationalization and achievement of regular GSOM research publications in the world-level professional journals are also major part of the Stage 2.

Stage 3. “International Competitiveness” (2015 and thereafter). The maturity stage of GSOM development is the time of strengthening of the School’s institutional compatibility with the top EU and North American business schools.  GSOM shall be among the best 15 schools in EU and 30 business schools in the world.