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  • ‘City Management ’

    • Full-time
    • 2 years
    • RU
    • 350 000 RUB
  • Entrance exams

    • Economic Theory
    • Foreign language (English, Chinese, German, French, Spanish)

Program description

The need to use the best management technologies in municipal management, which allow local governments to solve complex tasks, determines the demand for highly qualified personnel. The master’s program in City Management helps prepare such kinds of employees. Our graduate students have access to the best domestic and foreign practices of city development management. While doing the master’s program, graduates study the best technologies of city management, including those based on foreign experience, interact directly with representatives of local governments, solve real management tasks facing a specific municipality, etc.

Accreditation and Partners

Program managers

Stanislav Evgenievich Prokofiev

  • Doctor of Economics, Professor.
  • Rector of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation.
  • Full State Councilor of the Russian Federation of the 2nd class.

Upon completion of the program, graduates will be able to

  • Apply tools and methods of strategic management of municipal education;
  • Evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of the activities of local self-government bodies;
  • Be able to develop and implement sound management decisions in the field of municipal development management based on the latest management technologies;
  • Apply modern city management technologies for the socio-economic development of the city;
  • Effectively perform the tasks of the city manager – the person appointed to head the city administration;
  • Know the advanced foreign and Russian practices of city management.

Key disciplines of the concentration

General Professional Disciplines (PMM)

Evaluation of the efficiency and effectiveness of the activities of state and municipal government bodies, state and municipal finance management technologies.

A Block of Disciplines Reflecting the Specifics of the Direction

State Personnel Policy and Personnel Audit, Municipal Administration and Local Self-Government, Management of Social Infrastructure Development, Digital Transformation in the Public Sector.

General Scientific Module

Organization and conduct of scientific research, theory and mechanisms of modern state and municipal management.

Blocks of Electives

Project Management in Consulting, Engineering and Management of Large Projects, Management of International Investment Projects, Project Management in the Field of Information Technology.

Urban Planning and Management

Fundamentals of urban planning and urban development of the territory, megapolis management, city economy management, investment, and information development of municipalities.

City Management

Development economics, transparency in the public administration system, conflict management in government, institutional economics, city image management.

Career

Our alumni are employed by Departments of the Government of Moscow, Administrative Districts of Moscow, the Government of the Moscow Region and the government and administrations of other regional government bodies, the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, structural divisions of municipal administrations of urban districts and urban settlements as well as research organizations.

Organizations where you can find a job

Unique advantages of the program

During the training, students solve real management tasks based on a particular city.

Teachers actively use modern e-learning technologies, which makes it possible not to overload students with publicly available information, but to focus training on analyzing real situations and problems.

Master classes by heads of local self-government bodies.

Graduates of the master’s degree program meet the modern requirements of the employer in the field of public administration and municipal management, which ensures a high level of employment.

Students have the opportunity to undergo an internship in public authorities.