Faculty of International Economics and Business

Our competitive advantages:

• Cooperation with foreign universities and a chance of getting double diplomas (Joint French-Ukrainian master’s program MBA “Tourism”);
• Mastering two foreign languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Arabic, Italian;
• In-depth computer training (study of disciplines in computer information technology each semester);
• Active cooperation with the world’s leading companies and institutions in which the faculty graduates undergo internships and employment, namely: SAN InBev Ukraine, Philip Morris Ukraine, Nestle Ukraine, PrivatBank, GreenPower, Zeon 2020, Globalbilgi, IRBIS, Sigma Software and others;
• Students have the opportunity to obtain a Degree in English (study programmes “International Economics” and “Tourism”);
• The high level of training at the faculty is facilitated by the internship of teachers in leading institutions of higher education in Ukraine and other countries. Most teachers have certificates confirming the level of language competence (Business English Certificate (B2)).

Professional competencies of the graduates of “International Economics”:

• the ability to make rational management decisions to develop international competitive advantages;
• the ability to analyze the influence of internal and external factors of the organization on the development of its international economic activity;
• the ability to effectively manage the international competitiveness of an enterprise;
• the ability to create an analytical system for assessing the effectiveness of international economic activity of the enterprise and the degree of its adaptation to changes in the external environment.
• Professional competencies of the graduates of “International Management”:

• the ability to identify and describe the characteristics of an organization;
• the ability to analyze the results of an organization, to compare them with the factors of external and internal environment, to determine the prospects for the development of the organization;
• the ability to identify functional areas of an organization and the relationships between them;
• the ability to manage an organization and its departments through the implementation of management functions;
• the ability to choose and use modern management tools;
• the ability to plan and manage time;
• the ability to evaluate and ensure the quality of work performed;
• the ability to create and organize effective communications in the management process;
• the ability to analyze and structure the problems of the organization, to make decisions;
• the ability to form and demonstrate leadership qualities and behavioral skills;
• the ability to understand the principles of law and use them in professional activities;
• the ability to understand the principles of psychology and use them in professional activities;
• the ability to identify, select, and use adequate tools (e.g. world market research, international statistical analysis, comparative indices);
• the ability to study the processes and technologies of organizational design and management of the organization;
• the ability to apply methods of international economic and financial analysis, planning and control;
• the ability to carry out a comprehensive analysis of foreign economic activity of the enterprise using modern information technologies;
• the ability to assess and forecast the development of foreign economic activity at the macro-meso and micro levels of government;
• the ability to make optimal management decisions in the foreign economic activity of the enterprise based on the use of analytical methods and modeling methods;
• the ability to manage the export potential of an enterprise;
• the ability to provide organizational, technological and informational support for concluding foreign economic agreements;
• the ability to apply basic knowledge, analysis of theory, principles, tools and instruments for implementation of international monetary, financial and credit relations.

Professional competencies of the graduates of “International IT Management”:

• the ability to carry out diagnostic and strategic analysis of the state of development of IT enterprises with justification of key factors influencing the internal and external environment;
• the ability to develop options for management actions and decisions, to carry out their screening and selection based on criteria of cost, efficiency, level of risk and strategic context of international competition;
• the ability to carry out structural-functional, informational and parametric synthesis of the management system of the enterprise development of the IT industry, taking into account the industry affiliation and turbulent environment;
• the ability to determine the features of IT-enterprise management as a specific type of international management;
• the ability to apply technology and methods of organizational design of management systems for the development of enterprises in the IT industry, taking into account the laws of system formation, state and market means of their development;
• the ability to use modern methodological tools for project management of IT-organizations;
• the ability to understanding the features of all stages of the project cycle of IT-organizations and the ability to make effective decisions on resource and organizational support of IT-projects;
• the ability to know and apply rules and regulations to regulate the international economic activity of IT enterprises and the mechanism of harmonization with national legislation;
• the ability to monitor the situation and trends in international information and computer technology markets;
• the ability to analyze the international competitive environment, development and justification of the model of adaptation of an enterprise to the world market of IT products;
• the ability to form an information base for making rational decisions on the company’s entry into target global markets for IT products;
• the ability to develop alternative solutions to problem situations, their generation, screening and selection of optimal;
• the ability to form and demonstrate leadership qualities and behavioral skills;
• the ability to understand the principles of law and use them in professional activities;
• the ability to understand the principles of psychology and use them in professional activities;
• the ability to perform calculations and justify the effectiveness of organizational and managerial decisions and models of development of international economic activity of IT-enterprises.

Professional competencies of the graduates of “International Trade”:

• the knowledge and understanding of the theoretical foundations of international trade;
• the ability to select and use appropriate methods and tools to justify decisions on the establishment and operation of foreign trade structures;
• the understanding the forms of interaction of subjects of international trade;
• the ability to apply innovative approaches in the activities of international trade structures;
• the ability to conduct market research and make business and commercial reviews and forecasts of world markets for goods and services;
• the knowledge and understanding of the basics of pricing in international trade and the peculiarities of the formation of pricing strategies in world markets;
• the ability to segment international commodity markets and identify features of market niches of specific goods and services;
• the knowledge and understanding of regulatory framework for international trade;
• the knowledge and understanding of the organization and management of international trade activities of enterprises;
• the knowledge and understanding of the features of financial operations and risk management in the international trade activities of the enterprise;
• the ability to choose and use appropriate methods of logistics management in the international trade activities of enterprises;
• the knowledge and understanding of the latest computer and Internet technologies in ensuring the international trade activities of enterprises.

Professional competencies of the graduates of “Entrepreneurship, Trade and Stock Exchange”:

• critical understanding of the theoretical foundations of business, trade and exchange activities;
• the ability to choose and use appropriate methods, tools to justify decisions on the establishment, operation of business, trade and exchange structures;
• the ability to operate in the interaction of market participants;
• the ability to apply innovative approaches in the activities of business, trade and exchange structures;
• the ability to determine and evaluate the characteristics of goods and services in business, trade, exchange activities;
• the ability to carry out activities in compliance with regulatory documents in the field of business, trade and exchange activities;
• the ability to identify and perform professional tasks to organize the activities of business, trade and exchange structures;
• the ability to apply the basics of accounting and taxation in business, trade, exchange activities;
• the ability to organize foreign economic activity of business, trade and exchange structures;
• the ability to plan business, assess market conditions and performance in the field of business, trade and exchange practices, taking into account the risks.

Professional competencies of the graduates of “Tourism”:

• the understanding of the intercultural aspect of the tourist enterprise, its social responsibility;
• the knowledge of methods and technologies of marketing research in the field of circulation of intangible products;
• the understanding of the organizational and economic mechanism for increasing the competitiveness of sectors of the national economy, in particular those related to services;
• the awareness of theoretical principles and models of functioning of superspatial macroregions, causal links between phenomena and events driven by the processes of globalization and regionalization;
• the ability to analyze the competitiveness of the national tourism product; to develop, substantiate and implement strategies of foreign economic activity of tourist enterprises;
• the ability to develop regional programs to support the tourism industry, to form an information and communication network between government officials at various levels and businesses;
• the ability to build balanced schemes of export-import operations and interregional transfers with the participation of tourism and related industries, monitor market trends and take measures to anticipate possible crises, implement effective investment policies at different levels of management;
• the use of the acquired basic ideas about modern information technologies in the process of setting the task of organizing the activities of the tourist enterprise before the specialists of technological branches.

Professional competencies of the graduates of “Hotel and Restaurant Business”:

• the understanding the subject area and the specifics of professional activity;
• the ability to organize the service and production process taking into account the requirements and needs of consumers and ensure its efficiency;
• the ability to put into practice the basics of current legislation in the hotel and restaurant business and track changes;
• the ability to form and implement effective external and internal communications in the hospitality industry, interaction skills;
• the ability to manage the enterprise, to make decisions in economic activity of subjects of hotel and restaurant business;
• the ability to design the technological process of production and services and the service process of implementation of basic and additional services in enterprises (institutions) of hotel and restaurant and recreational facilities;
• the ability to develop new services (products) using innovative technologies of production and customer service;
• the ability to develop, promote, sell and organize the consumption of hotel and restaurant services for different consumer segments;
• the ability to select technological equipment and facilities, to address issues of rational use of spatial and material resources;
• the ability to work with technical, economic, technological and other documentation and to carry out settlement operations by the subject of hotel and restaurant business;
• the ability to identify, identify and evaluate the characteristics, properties and quality indicators of products and services that affect the level of customer satisfaction in the field of hospitality;
• the ability to initiate the concept of business development, to formulate a business idea for the development of hotel and restaurant business entities;
• the ability to plan, manage and control the activities of hotel and restaurant businesses.

Departments of the faculty:

• Department of International Economics and Management
• Department of Entrepreneurship and Hotel and Restaurant Business
• Department of Tourism
• Department of Technologies and Life Safety

ECTS coordinator at the faculty: Svitlana BESTUZHEVA – Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of International Economics and Management.