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Summary of Degree Programme

Field of Studies

38.04.01 Economics

38.04.02 Management

Approved by
Academic Council Minutes No.10 of 26 October 2022
Last Update
Minutes of St. Petersburg School of Economics and Management Council Meeting № 8.3.2.4-08/1909-01 from 19.09.2023
Network Programme

No

Length of Studies, Mode of Studies, Credit Load

2 years

Full-time, 120

Language of instruction

ENG

Instruction in English

Qualification upon graduation

Master

Double-degree Programme

No

Use of online learning

With online tools

Tracks

2023/2024 Academic year

People Analytics

Type: Applied
Track Supervisor: Volkova, Natalia
Language of instruction: English
Use of online learning: With online tools
Qualification upon graduation: Магистр
Key learning outcomes:
  • KER-1 Organises work of the project team to solve analytical problems, build forecasts and scenarios, and develop decisions regarding optimal policies based on evidence-based principles.

  • KER-2 Explains economic phenomena, processes and behaviour of economic agents based on concepts and explanatory models in economics and related sciences, identifies significant problems and develops ways to solve them, provides recommendations to decision makers.
  • KER-3 Makes a reasonable choice of methods and, where necessary, software tools for collecting and processing professional information, testing research hypotheses and reliability of the obtained data.
  • KER-4 Deal with various information systems and datasets for HR purposes.
  • KER-5 Collect, analyse, and frame details about available resources in the labour market.
  • KER-6 Manage employee motivation, engagement and workplace discipline.
Description of the professional field:
  • PC-1 Able to develop reasonable HR system to reach organisational goals.

  • PC-2 Able to apply various state-of-the-art techniques to analyse HR data.
  • PC-3 Able to anticipate and identify HR problems and search for best solutions that have benefit within and/or outside the organisation.

Graduates of the programme can pursue careers in data analytics and machine learning in such roles as:

  1. Project manager
  2. Data analyst
  3. Business analyst / BI analyst
  4. HR analyst
Description of educational modules:
  • The module “Key seminars” consists of various activities with focus on project and research skills via Research seminar. Research seminars focus on either business or HR field. The mentor support in People Analytics provides through “Mentor's Seminar”.
  • The module “Internship” encompasses three types of internships – professional, research and project. The term paper and Master thesis are essential part of research internship.
  • The module “Major” includes courses that serve for the development of professional, research and data skills.  As such, students can gain knowledge and competencies in Economics, Marketing and Human Resource management. The main courses involve gathering, analysing, and reporting HR data to measure the impact of a range of HR metrics on overall business performance and make decisions based on data.
  • The module “MagoLego” provides students with additional knowledge according to their preferences and supports students in strengthening their professional trajectory.

Customer Analytics

Type: Applied
Track Supervisor: Pleshkova, Anastasiia
Language of instruction: English
Use of online learning: With online tools
Qualification upon graduation: Магистр
Key learning outcomes:
  • KER-1 Organises work of the project team to solve analytical problems, build forecasts and scenarios, and develop decisions regarding optimal policies based on evidence-based principles.

  • KER-2 Explains economic phenomena, processes and behaviour of economic agents based on concepts and explanatory models in economics and related sciences, identifies significant problems and develops ways to solve them, provides recommendations to decision makers.
  • KER-3 Makes a reasonable choice of methods and, where necessary, software tools for collecting and processing professional information, testing research hypotheses and reliability of the obtained data.
  • KER-4 Chooses tools, modern technical means, and information technologies for processing information in accordance with the assigned scientific and practical task in the field of management.
  • KER-5 Takes decisions using CRM analytics using special methods for analysing network data and machine learning techniques.
  • KER-6 Builds predictive models of various business outcomes using supervised learning methods for decision-making.
Description of the professional field:
  • PC-1 Able to find and evaluate new market opportunities, form and evaluate business ideas.

  • PC-2 Able to solve managerial problems using best practices of data analysis.
  • PC-3 Able to take managerial decisions using information from large customer datasets.

Graduates of the programme can pursue careers in data analytics and machine learning in such roles as:

  1. Project manager
  2. Data analyst
  3. Business analyst / BI analyst
  4. Marketing analyst
Description of educational modules:
  • The module “Key seminars” consists of various activities with focus on project and research skills via Research seminar. Research seminars focus on either business or HR field. The mentor support in Customer Analytics provides through “Mentor's Seminar”.
  • The module “Internship” encompasses three types of internships – professional, research and project. The term paper and Master thesis are essential part of research internship.
  • The module “Major” includes courses that serve for the development of professional, research and data skills.  As such, students can gain knowledge and competencies in Economics, Marketing and Human Resource management. The main courses involve gathering together, analysing, and reporting marketing data to make decision about customer behaviour and other marketing trends based on data.
  • The module “MagoLego” provides students with additional knowledge according to their preferences and supports students in strengthening their professional trajectory.

Economic Data Analysis

Type: Applied
Track Supervisor: Molchanov, Pavel S.
Language of instruction: English
Use of online learning: With online tools
Qualification upon graduation: Магистр
Key learning outcomes:
  • KER-1 Organises work of the project team to solve analytical problems, build forecasts and scenarios, and develop decisions regarding optimal policies based on evidence-based principles.

  • KER-2 Explains economic phenomena, processes and behaviour of economic agents based on concepts and explanatory models in economics and related sciences, identifies significant problems and develops ways to solve them, provides recommendations to decision makers.
  • KER-3 Makes a reasonable choice of methods and, where necessary, software tools for collecting and processing professional information, testing research hypotheses and reliability of the obtained data.
  • KER-4 Carries out a reasonable choice of data sources and methods for collecting and processing professional information, testing research hypotheses and the reliability of the data obtained, calculates analytical indicators.
  • KER-5 Proficient in programming to solve problems in the field of economics and finance.
  • KER-6 Able to collect, analyse and process statistical data, information, scientific and analytical materials necessary to solve economic problems.
Description of the professional field:
  • PC-1 Able to collect, “clean”, and analyse economic data, revealing underlying statistical and economic causal relationships.

  • PC-2 Able to formulate an economic and econometric model of the studied problem/object of interest.
  • PC-3 Able to use the available econometric and machine learning techniques to identify inefficiencies in customer or marketing business policies and propose a solution or an improvement.

Graduates of the programme can pursue careers in data analytics and machine learning in such roles as:

  1. Project manager
  2. Data analyst
  3. Business analyst / BI analyst
  4. Economic analyst
Description of educational modules:
  • The module “Key seminars” consists of various activities with focus on project and research skills via Research seminar. Research seminars focus on conducting research in economics and data analysis. The mentor support is provided through “Mentorship seminar”.
  • The module “Internship” encompasses three types of internships – professional, research and project. The term paper and Master thesis are essential part of research internship.
  • The module “Major” includes courses that serve for the development of professional, research and data skills.  As such, students can gain knowledge and competencies in Economics, Marketing and Human Resource management. The main courses teach fundamental economic knowledge (microeconomics), econometrics and machine learning. Consequently, will know how to collect, clean the data, formulate a theoretical model, and use the state-of-the-art statistical methods to provide quantitatively sound solutions to a business-problem.
  • The module “MagoLego” provides students with additional knowledge according to their preferences and supports students in strengthening their professional trajectory.
Competitive Advantages
  • Avant-garde program in management and business-economics taught in English.
  • Emphasis on business strategies and economics for emerging markets.
  • Emerging markets and their specific traits when it comes to strategic management, economics and data-driven decisions.
  • The development of the data skills to interpret and analyze complex phenomena in the fields of marketing, economics, strategy, and human resources, in close cooperation with companies. 
  • Advanced skills connected with machine learning techniques for extracting predictive patterns and models from digital data.
  • Opportunity to choose an applied track or a research-oriented track followed up by PhD study abroad or under supervision of HSE international research centers.
  • Cross-Functional Competencies:The programme’s courses cover a wide range of competencies in strategic management and business economics, as well as in big data analytics, quantitative methods, and machine learning.
  • An Applied Curriculum:The curriculum is oriented around the knowledge and skills most sought-after among employers in real workplaces.
  • Experienced Teaching Staff: Courses are taught by academic and business experts
Programme Modules

 

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