General Information

Overview of IEF "Sinerghia" (PDF, 6Mb)

Sinerghia Economics and Finance Institute (IEF Sinerghia) is one of the first non-state educational institutions started its activity in 1988. The Institute has a great experience in higher and business education. More than 20 000 top-managers and specialists of higher and middle level from private and public sectors have finished its programmes. These professionals form a unique community of Sinerghia alumni who are ready to help each other in the professional sphere, career development and promotion.

Best Russian educational traditions and advanced western experience gives Sinerghia students the opportunity to get such professional knowledge and skills which consider the specific character of the student body. Sinerghia creates the specific learning environment which allows its faculty to work on practically individual basis with each student. IEF Sinerghia keeps up constant contacts with major companies which assist in futureemployment of the graduates not only in Russia, but also abroad.

Sinerghia positions itself as a Russian business school with full cycle of continuous education (bachelor - specialist - master - MBA - post-graduate course - training and up-grading - consulting) by means of unique programmes which combine the variety, richness and complexity of domestic and international realities

Mission statement

Training and up-grading professional managers andspecialists of a new formation who will match all high national andinternational standards.

IEF Sinerghia implements its mission in creating educational andR&D atmosphere which helps to open each person’s talents anddevelops his or her skills and leadership qualities needed in the worldof economic and educational integration and globalization.

We are open for students, faculty, professionals, top-managers, companies of all world community.

Our key values

• DYNAMISM - creativity, enterprise, entrepreneurship, readiness to take risk, innovation, social responsibility.
• PRAGMATISM - emphasis on attaining the objectives in meeting the rigid requirements within theframework of the national economy’s development.
• OPENNESS - interaction and openness for esteemed partners and cultures, development andenhancement through diversity, client orientation
• AUTONOMY / INDEPENDENCE - non-state legal status ensures independent decision making process and strategy shaping

Full cycle of continuous education

Diplomas

• Russian diploma with official national status
• Leading foreign business schools diplomas and certificates

Sinerghia is an innovation in education

Sinerghia faculty creates new educational programmes and provides students with its own books implementing innovative methodology:

• Set of 10 textbooks in the field of management, marketing, finance;
• Unique set of electronic textbooks for self-study and self-examination;
• Range of workshops and training programmes, business games, case studies and other interactive methods

All mentioned above is enhanced by modern infrastructure which includes latest information technologies in data presenting and transfer.

Sinerghia is Russian and international professional and public organisations accreditations holder

Extracts from assessment report of Association of МВА (АМВА) committee (May, 2006), which reaccredited Sinerghia MBA programmes up to 2011

“ The School is to be commended on the significant progress that it has made, in many areas, since the first assessment visit in 2001.

• There is an easily understood, appropriate governance structure, which is supported by strong and effective processes.
• The School has identified a strong and growing target market in Russia and the CIS and it has established itself in these markets as a leading provider of the MBA.
• The School has excellent links to corporate organizations, for which it is innovative in developing for them both degree level programmes and executive education.
• The School is to be commended on its academic staff, who are committed, enthusiastic and well qualified.
• Students and graduates who participated at the assessment reported that academic and administrative staff is highly responsive to their needs and that this contributes significantly to the quality experience at the School. The support staff is professional, knowledgeable and exceptional in their commitment to the School.
• The quality of both modular and part-time students is commendable for their academic and work experience.
• The students are supportive of the School and would recommend studying there to friends and colleagues.”

Sinerghia is the partnership with leading foreign institutions

• Durham Business School
• Newcastle Business School (UK)
• Technische Universitat Dresden (Germany)
• POLIMODA s.r.l. (Italy)

Sinerghia Economics and Finance Institute has continual contacts with dozens of world leading universities, studying and scientific centers