The Department of Economics of the Minsk Institute of Management was founded in 1994. During the past years 1,492 specialists were trained, including 1,077 specialists with a major in “Economics and business management”, 335 with a major in “World economics and international economic relations”, 54 with a major in “Commercial Work” and 43 with a major in “Modern Foreign languages”.

The department includes 6 chairs: economics and business management, economic theory and world economics, management, modern foreign languages, humanities and foreign languages. All the chairs are headed by lecturers with academic degrees and extensive work experience in higher educational institutions.

Among the graduates there were 107 of those who got diplomas with honours and 119 were recommended for further postgraduate studies.

Today the department offers students the following majors:

• Economics and production management; specialization of economics and production enterprise management, qualification of an economist-manager (full-time and distance-learning students)
• World economics and international economic relations; specialization of economics and foreign-economic activity management, qualification of an economist (full-time students)
• World economics; specialization of foreign-economic activity management, qualification of an economist (full-time and distance learning students)
• Modern foreign languages; specialization of international economic relations, qualification of a translator-adviser with the knowledge of English and German languages (full-time students)
• Modern foreign languages; specialization of a