OREANDA-NEWS. On 20 June 2008 was announced, that the first graduates under the MBA program of Baikal International Business School of Irkutsk State University were qualified in Irkutsk. Thirty heads of the largest organizations of the Angarsk Territory were qualified.

Final research paper defense and awarding the MBA degree - Master of Business Administration. The graduated passed a two-year study under the program of the higher business education in "MBA: strategic management of the company ". There are no analogues of the Irkutsk program in the Siberian region.

Viktor Kruglov, Chairman of the Legislative Chamber of the Irkutsk area, "We need such business education, a new fashion education. I mean the education should be intended for those people who can think in another way within the industrial process, therefore, it should not be classical."

The first trainees of the MBA program were 30 general, financial and sales managers of the leading companies of the Angarsk Territory, including 20 heads of the divisions of Irkutskenergo.

Vladimir Kornev, the head of the Personnel Management Department of Irkutskenergo, "It is difficult enough to teach such a large group from the point of view of, first, expenses, from the point of view of abstraction from work. But we decided to go the length of it. As a matter of fact, we succeeded.

Andrey Konovalov, the General Director of Irkutskenergo: It is a question of improvement of education of top managers. And in our opinion, this subject is relevant also because these people should provide growth of the production efficiency in the company.

The best teachers of the leading Russian business schools, foreign training, exchange in experience, business relations building - all this is provided by MBA program of Baikal International Business School of Irkutsk State University. The first graduates have been already qualified. Future has a lot in store for them.