Business Administration and Public Relations Faculty

Guseva Irina Vasiljevna

Dean,
associate professor of MEBIK
Doctor of Philosophy

Business Administration and Public Relations Faculty was founded in 1999. The same year Kursk Institute of Management, Economics and Business introduced Public Relations speciality (Public Relations in state and public institutions).

Nowadays the faculty trains specialists of the following specialities:

• 030602 Public Relations
• 080504 Business Administration
• 080111 Marketing
• 080300 Commerce

All the specialities are of great demand in up-to-date economy. According to experts evaluation Public Relations and Marketing will be the most popular specialities in the 21st century.

Young people from many parts of the country get education at the faculty: Kursk and Kursk region, Belgorod, Oryol, Bryansk, Tyumen, Magadan regions, Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, the Ukraine. Kursk Institute of Management, Economics and Business is the only higher educational institution to give PR specialists training.

The faculty graduates work in state and municipal authorities of Kursk region, region enterprises and organizations, private firms.

The students have qualification practice in Kursk region administration, the administrations of Kursk, Zheleznogorsk, Kurchatov, Rilsk, Kursk region Duma, JSC "Schetmash", JSC "Kurskkozha", "GOTEK", JSC "MGOK", "GRINN" Corporation, Kursk Board of Trade and Industry, local TVchannels and newspapers editorial offices.

The students and teaching staff take an active part in organizing of sociology and marketing research, elections and PR campaigns, exhibitions and presentations. The students participate in public, scientific, social, sports, cultural life of the region and the country. They are the winners of the city competition "Molodezhniy gorod" ("Youth city"), permanent participants of the international summer camp "Slavyanskoye sodruzhestvo", organizers of Russian students business game "Communication". The students got rewards in scientific students conferences of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Leningrad Institute of Electronics and Technology (LETI), Banking Academy of the Ukraine.

There are five departments in the faculty:

• Business administration department
• Psychology and Public Relations department
• Management department
• Sociology and Law department
• Philosophy and Social Disciplines department

The faculty teaching staff takes an active part in scientific conferences and seminars, educational programs, master-classes, advanced qualification courses for municipal employees. Business Administration department headed by Nechaev V.D. set up Social Research Center "Tsivitas".