Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics (Moscow)

RAE - Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics founded in 1907, is a public research university located in 4 buildings on one campus in the downtown of Moscow. The Campus is near the Metro station Serpukhovskaya. Although RAE has changed its name more than once the quality of education remained high throughout their history. It has 14 departments and over 13,000 students (including branches in Tashkent, Uzbekistan and Ulan-Bator, Mongolia). The university was one of the first in Russia to join the reforms of the doctoral and master's education within the Bologna process.

The Moscow Institute of Commerce was founded in 1907 on private donations. It was the only Russian University that time (1907) where women were allowed to study. Since 1960s the Institute was merged with Moscow Governmental Economic Institute and became one of the major centers of scientific education in the country. International Business School-Plekhanov International Business School (IBS) was established as a division of Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics in 2001, as the result of reorganization of International Educational Programmes Centre.