Geography of World Economy

Program description 

Professional training under the program is aimed at mastering the skills of analyzing the state of world markets for goods, services and capital, their geographical structure, dynamics and composition of participants, developing strategies, scenarios and forecasts for the development of individual industries, regions and cities, taking into account the influence of external factors and the interaction between global and regional processes. The content of the master's program pays special attention to the theoretical foundations of the geography of the world economy, acquiring skills in solving scientific and practical problems, taking into account the international aspects of world economic processes, geopolitical, technological, and organizational factors of development.

Benefits of the program  

The program allows you to gain skills and competencies in a comprehensive assessment and system analysis of the global market for goods and services, diverse international economic relations, the activities of world cities as the cores of globalization processes and contributes to an understanding of the modern geopolitical structure of the world and the associated political fragmentation and conflicting contradictions of global and regional powers.

Those who have completed the master's program have the necessary qualifications to continue scientific activities within the framework of graduate school, as well as for employment in government agencies, Russian and foreign analytical, production, trade, sales, and service companies of various profiles.

Leading organizations where graduates work  

The bulk of graduates who have completed their master's program are employed in analytical services and companies providing consulting and marketing services (each of the three specified areas of employment concentrates about 20% of graduates). Employing companies for master's degree graduates in 2021 are represented by large foreign TNCs (Hyundai Glovis, KPMG), Russian companies (Ecostandard Group of Companies, Ubirator LLC), as well as institutions involved in urban planning and urban planning (ANO "Moi Rayon", LLC "Arkhproekt-XXI"). A third of the 2021 graduates continued their studies in graduate school (two at the Department of Geography of World Economy of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov, one at the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences).

Basic academic disciplines   

• Geography of the global financial system (in English) (Fomichev P.Yu.)

• Geopolitics and political geography (Hare D.V.)

• Spatial evolution of the world economic system (Fedorchenko A.V.)

• Giant countries in the world economy (Hare D.V., Baranchikov E.V., Fedorchenko A.V., Mironenko K.V.)

• Industrial macroregions of the world (Baranchikov E.V.)

• Geographical aspects of Russia's participation in the world economy (Baranchikov E.V.)

• International management (Grechko E.A.)

• Theories and modern problems of world development (Grechko E.A.)

• Geography of research and development (Fedorchenko A.V.)