The Skolkovo School today is 2,500 graduates of degree and entrepreneurial programmes, 22,000 attendees of corporate educational programmes, 175 companies employing managers who studied at the Skolkovo School.
Dmitry
Medvedev’s opening remarks
Meeting of the International Advisory Board of the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo
The Moscow School of Management Skolkovo is a private business school that was established on 27 September 2006 within the framework of the Education Priority National Project as a public-private partnership.
The school is managed by the International Advisory Board, which is chaired by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, together with the Board of Directors, which consists of founding partners.
The Skolkovo School today is 2,500 graduates of degree and entrepreneurial programmes, 22,000 attendees of corporate educational programmes, 175 companies employing managers who studied at the Skolkovo School, as well as over 1,000 graduates of the Rectors’ School.
The school offers 20 formats of educational programmes, including MBA and Executive МВА degree programmes, entrepreneurship programmes, including Practicum Global Shift for companies that are ready to go global, plus corporate and open enrolment programmes.
Six new educational programmes have been launched at the school in 2019, including with Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) focused on the Eurasian market, a programme for Chief Digital Transformation Officers (CDTOs) and digital transformation teams, an educational project for exporters implemented jointly with the Russian Export Centre, plus a programme for training general education staff.
In 2014, the school became the operator of the Global Education programme launched to finance the education of talented Russian students at leading foreign universities. This programme has been extended until 2025.
The Skolkovo School is actively promoting online education. The total number of students taking its online courses already reached 9,300 in 2019.
The school holds a grant competition for admission to the Skolkovo MBA programme, which is supported by Russian business circles and major companies. In April 2019, the school allocated an unprecedented 1 million euros in grants for the 52 finalists of the competition who will be future MBA programme students. They were selected from among 1,400 contestants.
In June 2019, the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo received international accreditation by EQUIS EFMD, which only 183 business schools in the world have. The Skolkovo School has become one of the top three youngest business schools to receive this accreditation.
The school comprises nine institutes and research centres that are implementing over 200 research projects in a variety of fields.
International Advisory Board meeting
Excerpts from the transcript:
Meeting of the International Advisory Board of the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo
Dmitry Medvedev: Good afternoon, colleagues, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to this International Advisory Board meeting.
Before we start, I would like to congratulate everybody who is involved in the Moscow School of Management, on the assessment by the European Foundation for Management Development. As I was informed, this means that the school is now in the top league. This is great news. It is better to play in the top league if we play at all. Now the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo has prestigious international EQUIS accreditation. There are very few EQUIS-accredited schools, only one percent in the world, which places Skolkovo on a par with the world’s recognised leaders and certifies its high international standard of education. This was exactly the goal we discussed in the very beginning when we discussed its establishment.
Right now the school is rightly considered the biggest private business school in Russia, the CIS and even in Eastern Europe. Skolkovo offers progressive learning methods and a global diversity of views. For many people studying at Skolkovo was one of the steps to success. The school faculty includes not only prominent researchers and scientists but also representatives of major businesses. Therefore, the number of prospective students is constantly on the rise. Over a period of 13 years, more than 2,500 students have finished degree and entrepreneurial programmes; almost 22,000 students have completed corporate study programmes. Now they are truly amazing managers and representatives of the business community. Perhaps this is the main outcome of this project.
In addition to the innovation cluster, Skolkovo is building an advanced education system. As you know, the school is developing partnerships with world leaders, the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Switzerland and the HKUST Business School in Hong Kong. Skoltech (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology) professors also work and give lectures at the Moscow School of Management. Skolkovo and New Economic School launched the Centre for Research in Financial Technologies and Digital Economy.
This amalgamation of world-class practices, programmes and business cases is a genuinely efficient environment for Skolkovo students. It is fundamentally important to keep expanding the geography both for the faculty, students and companies involved.
I am confident that, considering these accolades, the school has great development prospects. It has a modern research base and nine centres supported by global companies.
The objectives that we are going to discuss today include increasing the competitive advantage and creating an intellectual economy. We will talk about this here and later at the Open Innovations forum.
So let’s discuss future plans, listen to the school’s management and its proposals on developing its potential.
