The School of Finance and Banking

The school was established in November 2002. The Dean of the school is Dr. hab., Prof. Nina I. Bohdan.

The School of Finance as a separate unit worked from 1964 till 2002.

Before that time students majoring in Finance and Credit were trained at other schools. The s chool was headed by:

• 1964-1974 – A. Shashkovski, Associate Professor;
• 1974-1992 – G. Kravtsova, Associate Professor;
• 1992-1998 – G. Multan, Associate Professor;
• 1998 – 2004 – V. Bas, Associate Professor.

The School of Banking as a separate unit was established in 1992 and existed till 2002. The dean of the school was PhD, Prof. S. Tkachuk.

The s chool of f inance and b anking established then trains full-time students with major 1-25 01 04, Finance and Credit ( specializations 1-25 01 04 01, Finance, 1-25 01 04 04, Insurance, and 1-25 01 04 07, Finance and credit in foreign economic activities ). The period of study is 5 years.

The graduates majoring in 1-25 01 04, Finance and Credit ( specialization 1-25 01 04 02, Banking ) are capable to perform economic, institutional and managerial, analytical and research activities, mainly in banks and other financial and crediting institutions and establishments.

Moreover, the s chool offers shorter periods of study (3.5 years) for full-time students majoring in Finance who finished specialized secondary educational establishments, colleges and technical schools cum laude.

The school also trains part-time students (period of study 5.5 years) majoring in Finance.

The graduates are awarded with the qualification of economist.

Depending on the specialization chosen they may work in the following spheres:

• taxation institutions;
• financial institutions;
• financial departments of enterprises of various types of management and different ownership;
• public institutions;
• institutions of crediting, social and cultural spheres, etc. (specialization Finance);
• insurance companies ( specialization Insurance );
• joint and foreign enterprises and units engaged in supporting foreign economic activities both public and economic ( specialization Finance and credit in foreign economic activities).

The School comprises the following departments:

• the Department of Finance and Financial Management;
• the Department of Taxes and Taxation;
• the Department of Banking;
• the Department of Currency Circulation, Credit and Stock Market;
• the Department of Budget and Finance in Foreign Economic Activities;
• the Department of Information Technologies.

At present, the s chool is represented by more than 2000 full-time students, about 2000 part-time students, over 50 postgraduate students, about 400 faculty members and employees joined into five departments. The school uses wide up-to-date experience of training qualified economists for various economic spheres both national and foreign. It suffice to say that most CEOs in Belarusian banks are its alumni.

The training process provides students with general theoretical knowledge in Economic Theory, Statistics, Accounting, Business Analysis, Marketing, etc. They acquire deep knowledge of their major educational disciplines concerning monetary relations, state finance, enterprise finance, banking activities and information technologies in banking.

Students receive practical training, prepare and defend their diploma theses which helps them acquire skills necessary for independent decision-making in financial and crediting spheres and bankers' discount. Practical classes and lectures are delivered by experienced lecturers, including guest professors from foreign universities. Qualified experts from the National Bank and leading commercial banks of the Republic of Belarus , too, deliver lectures at the School. They manage to combine scientific work and teaching with their main professional activities. It brings to classes more information, quicker assimilation of new banking technologies and knowledge of prospects for banking system development.

To improve the quality of education and for the students to acquire some practical skills there was established a study room on the basis of ASB “Belarusbank” branch 511 that is located in the University building. s tudents have got an opportunity to get directly acquainted there with work environment of their future profession.

Much attention is given to scholarly and research work. The Students' scientific society is divided into scientific sections. The scholarly and research work is guided by most experienced and qualified teachers.

Students have an opportunity of participating in conferences or publishing their research papers even abroad.

Under the auspices of the World Bank representative office in Minsk , the auditing company “Delloyt & Tush”, “Priorbank” etc. they organize students' scientific works competitions.

As a rule, young specialists are more successful in applying present-day methods of financial operations, mastering new types of services and offering them to clients. The graduates who are good at foreign languages get an opportunity of practical placement abroad. The graduates inclined to scientific research may take a post-graduate course, prepare their master's and doctoral theses and be awarded an academic degree. The school has Dissertation defense boards for both doctoral and post-doctoral theses.

	Aaddress: 26 Partizanski prosp., Bldg 1, rooms 907-902 220672 Minsk The Republic of Belarus
	Tel./fax: +375 17 209-78-17 – Nina Bohdan, the Dean
	E-mail: fbd@bseu.by