GSIB offers 106 learning courses, including:

• mandatory courses for all
• mandatory courses within the specializations
• electives.

These are bricks, structural elements used by GSIB professors to construct the “edifice” of the program that conforms to international quality standards and, at the same time, is a Russian program, a learning product based on Russian realities, on the interests of Russian students and Russian market requirements. Examples of GSIB students individual plans are given below.

GSIB MBA Program Structure has two dimensions:

• Knowledge is broken down by content into the following discipline theme blocks (block diagram vertical  axis):
• Business Environment (BE)
• Finance Management (F)
• Management (M)
• Marketing (Ma)
• International Business and Management (IB)
• Business Communication Skills (S)

The Latin abbreviations (in brackets) denote main discipline theme blocks. The second and third blocks (F and M) are subdivided into sub-blocks denoted by the same letter (corresponding to the main block) with attached indexes: F1, F2, F3 and M1, M2, M3, M4 and M5.

• Courses are broken down into four modules (block diagram horizontal axis)

The modules correspond to the level of concretization and instrumentalization. It is important to emphasize here that this grouping is not by duration of learning courses (the time factor in the block diagram would then be its third dimension) – it is by nature of module disciplines: each next module deepens the knowledge acquired on the preceding one and becomes ever more specialized and instrumental. The way it happens will be described below. First, let us finish with the system if symbols.

Modules are denoted by Roman I, II, III, IV.

Given the symbols of the diagram vertical and horizontal “coordinates,” each sub-block has the cipher X.Y, where X stand for the module number and Y denotes the theme block.

All the 106 program courses are numerated consecutively from 1 to 106.

Furthermore, each discipline is finally marked with a more complex cipher – e.g. X.Y.Z, where  X stands for the number of the module where the discipline is studied, Y denotes the theme block/sub-block that includes the discipline, Z – is the number of the discipline in the general list.

Download GSIB MBA Program Structure block diagram