The Sinerghia Institute of Economics and Finance is a private higher education establishment, set up in 1988. Strategic partners include Moscow University of Industry and Finance and Durham Business School. The institute delivers undergraduate, postgraduate (MBA programmes and other Masters) and executive courses.

Very well-regarded, with more than 20,500 successful alumni. According to the Institute, their key values are “dynamism, pragmatism, openness and independence”.

Sinerghia offers an MBA accredited by Russia's higher education authority and was the first in the country to be accredited by AMBA. There are around 240 students on the Russian mode, 50 students on the English mode, and there's a 9 per cent foreign element including students from Ukraine, Belarus, Estonia, India, China and Taiwan. The MBA course may be studied part-time or on a modular basis. There are around 320 students studying part-time over two years, 105 on a modular basis (also over two years), and 85 on the distance learning MBA, which involves attendance at the institute in Moscow twice a year. There are also usually 25 students studying corporate MBA programmes.

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