Donetsk State University of Management

Donetsk State University of Management (DSUM) was founded in 1992 to face the challenge of an emerging market economy in Ukraine's most industrially advanced regions. DSUM is a state-run higher education institution accredited with the IV level of accreditation by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. It is a dynamic, modern, forward-looking higher education institution, which successfully combines educational and research activities.
DSUM is a specialized institution to prepare high-qualified specialists for management-related activities in Economics, Finance, Sociology, Law, Banking, and Marketing. The University's mission is to train a new competitive generation of specialists with distinct creative thinking to serve the professional world's needs using the quality continuing education by the international standards for intensive sustainable society development in the knowledge-based economy in Ukraine.
Since its foundation, DSUM has trained hundreds of international students at the full cycle education. Mostly these are citizens of China, Nigeria, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Turkey, and former Soviet republics. In 2002 the first exchange students from the Czech Republic and Poland arrived for a one-term training within the bilateral agreements. Annually the University hosts up to10 exchange students from the European partner universities.
Despite all the complexity of Ukraine's current situation, DSUM remains a modern university on the move. It can be proved by successfully reorganizing the educational process in the new premises and a continuation of the wide range of education research and related academic functions, like international cooperation.
The University's strategic priority today is to accord study program design and content according to the European standards to become a distinguished education-and-research institution with valuable input into the economic and social life of the region and the country.
In 2008 the double degree program at the MA level with Polish University was elaborated. So far, 12 students have participated in this program. Students study four foreign languages (English, French, German, and Spanish) as the compulsory subject of their study programs at all specialties. The majority of students learn English. Students of the specialty "Management of Foreign Trade Activity" learn two foreign languages.
Today the University enrolls 1,500 thousand students. It provides training at three faculties and 18 Chairs. Training is carried out at the following education-qualification levels: Bachelor, Specialist, Master, and Ph.D. in various management-related fields like economics, public administration, sociology, marketing, foreign trade activities management, environmental management, banking and finance, personnel management, tourism, and law, etc.