The St. Petersburg State University of Economics (UNICON) was founded on August 1st, 2012, as the merger of the University of Economics and Finance (FINEC) and University of Economics and Engineering (ENGECON). On December 29th, 2012, the University of Service and Economics (SUSE) joined the alliance. The merger's critical principle was to preserve all three partners; thus, the new University consists of three Institutes: Institute of Economics, Institute of Management, and Institute of Tourism and Service. Institute of Economics gives an excellent opportunity to applicants who decided to devote their life to the economy to enter the Faculty of Economics and Finance. Young people interested in studying law or theory of interpreting, IT or regional studies – can try their luck at the other faculties of Law, Humanities or IT and Applied Mathematics. Among the Institute's alumni are – CEO of Gazprom Alexey Miller, the prime-minister of Armenia Tigran Sarkisyan, president of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Russian Central Bank Nadezhda Savinskaya, director of Gazprombank Olga Dragomiretskaya and many others. Self-reliant applicants can try to enter the Institute of Management, which implements training under the unique intensive programs for multifunctional managers who can meet modern economics's most fundamental and complicated challenges.
Institute of Tourism and Service welcomes those students who are interested in service, tourism, and hospitality. One of the Institute's excellence points is design; thus, famous Russian fashion houses were founded by Institute graduates – Tatiana Parfenova, Lilia Kisselenko, and Irina Selyuta.
The mission of the Higher Economic School is to raise the competitiveness of Russian and foreign companies through the improvement and development of its staff based on the creative use of modern educative technologies, systematization, and exchange of expertise between executives and specialists in the process of professional retraining and further training. HSE differs from other business schools by providing students with educational services of the highest quality. Programs are maximally adapted to adult people's habit to act as they imply an exchange of expertise as a part of the study process. The ambiance in HSE allows students to establish business contacts during their studies. Among HSE's corporate customers are "Gazprom," "Baltika" brewery, and many others.
We are very thankful to all our alumni for choosing us in the past. We hope that their success in leading companies, banks, and governmental institutions or even at the highest level of political and financial power is based on their hard work within the University walls. We are open to everybody seeking high-quality education and meaningful research and welcome ambitious people of all ages to join a great brotherhood of 38000 students and professors. UNICON is a leading higher educational institution of economics in Russia. This requires the University's fresh ideas, which will promote economic progress and qualitative improvement of life in Russia and abroad. University professionals strive to put the research results into individual decisions, the end products, which will help reconstruct the Russian economy following the call of the times.
