History and development prospects

Minsk Institute of Management was established in the times of restructuring, when the country needed highly qualified experts able to influence positively on economic, scientific and social development of the Republic of Belarus. In order to train such highly qualified experts the Institute uses the scientific potential of its faculties as well as material resources and educational base to the maximum. This sets certain objectives for the enhancement of the educational process and its correlation with the scientific and research activities. The participation of the faculty and students in the development of scientific projects for organizations, as well as their technical and feasibility studies and support during their implementation is expanding.

The Institute holds regular International scientific conferences for both faculty and students followed by the publication of conference materials. New majors and specializations are introduced to meet the requirements of the labor market of the Republic of Belarus. While they are introduced, new academic plans, which take modern demands to graduates into consideration, are being developed. Academic systems for the studied disciplines including lecture materials, guidelines for extramural student and practical lab work and term papers, as well as seminar topics, problem compilations and so on are being developed. Today modern software is widely used in preparing and training skilled specialists.

Irrespective of the chosen major, particular attention is paid to the gaining of knowledge in the fields of information technologies and modern foreign languages. To reach this aim the Institute labs are equipped with over 200 personal computers of the latest models. These labs enable students to access Internet, watch satellite television in foreign languages, work on their pronunciation with the help of computers and perform calculations needed for their term papers and degree work. Foreign languages are taught in specially designed language labs with audio and video equipment and satellite television.

The availability of our own publishing base allows the Institute to publish educational and other literature and speeds up the issuing process, which influences educational process. There are over 11800 full time and extramural students studying at MIM and more than 220 qualified lecturers, including 16 grand PhD of science, professors and 68 PhD of science, associate professors and others teach them. Development prospects of the Institute, educational technology, scientific research and the current state of educational process are determined by the Council of the Institute. The rector of MIM Nikolay V. Susha is the chairman of this council.

The Institute focuses its attention on the problems of system organization as well as managing the educational process, optimizing educational plans and programs for Institute majors, creating quality modular courses, developing forms, methods and criteria for controlling students’ knowledge and teachers’ training. In order to introduce innovative teaching technologies in educational process the Institute is developing an integrated informational system of managing a higher educational institution. It is also introducing modern technologies of testing, providing students with methodic materials on electronic mediums, supplying extramural students with systematic materials and so on. In order to promote the future scientific and educational activity, the Institute offers training for post-graduate students on the two following majors: “Economics and national economy management” and “Civil law; business law; family law; international private law”. It also trains students for Masters Degrees on the nine following majors: “Germanic languages”, “Psychology”, “Jurisprudence”, “World economics”, “Finances, money circulation and credit”, “Economics and national economy management”, “Business accounting, statistics”, “Management in social and economic systems”, System analysis, management and information processing”. The institute is also offering a doctorate course in “Economics and national economy management” since 2004.

The Institute places special emphasis on scientific and educational cooperation with both national and international higher educational establishments. MIM has cooperation agreements with many foreign higher educational establishments (their list and links can be found here).