According to the Standard of Higher Education of Ukraine, “International Economic Relations” is a major aimed at students gaining theoretical and practical knowledge, skills, abilities and realization of the basic principles in functioning and development of the world economy, forms of international economic relations and mechanisms for their implementation, motivation and behavior of the international economic relations subjects at the micro, meso, macro and mega levels, in the evolution of international relations and international cooperation.

Training of specialists in “International Economic Relations” at Sumy State University includes profound study of foreign languages, international economic activity organization and planning, development of international marketing strategy of companies, international trade, international law and customs law, international finance, international transactions, international investment activities, diplomatic relations, modern social communications and cross-cultural management.

We use standards of higher education of the major 292 “International Economic Relations”

The Standard of higher education in Ukraine for a Bachelor’s degree
Standard of higher education in Ukraine for a Master degree

• Studying in Ukrainian-speaking and English-speaking groups on a full-time or part-time basis
• Foreign professors and professionals from Ukraine guarantee the high quality of teaching
• Learning a second foreign language for English-speaking groups, starting from the first year (French or German)
• In-depth study of English for Ukrainian and English-speaking groups, the possibility to obtain a B2 certificate in English
• Academic mobility in the EU and the world
• Opportunity to study in double degree programs at partner universities of the European Union
• Training and internship abroad
• Mastering foreign economic relations both from the standpoint of international business and the level of interstate economic relations.

The Department of International Economic Relations is a graduating department of the major “International Economic Relations”.

The potential of the department:

• 6 doctors of sciences, 21 candidates of sciences
• The teaching staff includes professors from the USA, Israel and Poland
• Lecturers have scientific and practical experience, including abroad
• Teaching of disciplines at the level of world requirements regarding the quality of education
• Teaching in English (lecturers have certificates of English language proficiency at level B2 and above).

International economic relations is a broad major, and therefore our students, in addition to classical economic education, obtain knowledge in various fields: international business, international economic operations, international finance, international logistics, cross-cultural relations, diplomacy, business intelligence, social responsibility, international projects, international economic legislation, engineering and solving certain IT problems in the field of international economics and many others.

The list of those subjects for our students during mastering of a major “International economic relations” is the following: Bachelor degree, Master degree.

It is absolutely true. An opportunity to choose disciplines is realization of an individual vector of training. It means that the student, in addition to the required professional competencies, may acquire additional professional skills in related fields of economics and / or other fields. These subjects are IT-orientation, jurisprudence, engineering, etc.

Students select the elective courses for the next semester electronically by voting for them in the catalog of elective courses, which is an integral part of the student’s personal profile. On the one hand, it is a convenient and fast way of communication between the student and the dean’s office, and on the other hand, it enables to interfere in the choice of each of them. The vector of disciplines chosen by the student forms the professional individuality – his/her competitive advantages in the labor market.

Sure, there is such a possibility. Each of the entrants, during the admission procedure, has the opportunity to make own choice: to start studying in a Ukrainian-speaking or English-speaking group. If an entrant chooses to study in a Ukrainian-speaking group, the first two years of the studies are taught in Ukrainian with intensive study of English. Then, the English-speaking and Ukrainian-speaking groups merge into a single stream of students. Further training will be in English

No, it is not difficult at all:

If the entrant chooses a Ukrainian-speaking group, he / she, in addition to economic disciplines, obtains enhanced English language training in innovative programs adapted for students with only basic English language skills provided by the school course. These language training programs are designed in such a way that at the beginning of the third year of study, when a single English-language stream of the specialty is formed, all students have the same level of English-language training.

If the student chooses English-language education – all subjects are taught in English, but according to the Law of Ukraine “On Higher Education”, all materials (lectures, practical tasks, guidelines, consultations with the teacher) are given to students in the Ukrainian language. The advantages of studying in an English-speaking group from the first year of study are: enhanced English-language training and learning a second foreign language (German or French).

Undoubtedly, this opportunity is available for both bachelors and masters. The International Economic Relations Department of SSU has an accredited master’s educational program – “International Business”. The full-time form of study is an English-language program; distance learning is a Ukrainian-language program

Sure, it is possible. Since 2020 Department of International Economic Relations announces admission to Bachelor and Master educational programs in both full-time and extramural (distance) forms of study.

No problem. If the student wishes to work in parallel with the study, the department provides an opportunity to get an individual schedule, if the student fulfills the conditions of the curriculum and the lecturers’ tasks. Thus, the student may partially attend classes. The Department of International Economic Relations has significant experience in creating the most favorable individual learning conditions, and communication with lecturers is organized online 24/7.

The department creates the most comfortable conditions for students. Our infrastructure includes:

• Modern classrooms
• Comfortable dormitories
• Audiovisual complexes
• Modern scientific library
• Track and field arena and 2 swimming pools (opportunity to develop skills in more than 50 sports)
• Development of creative abilities
• Modern medical clinic
• Convenient location of the campus in the city center.

• Prestigious state standard diploma in the major “International Economic Relations”
• Internship experience in the most successful export-oriented companies, corporations with foreign and mixed capital, in the currency departments of banks, in the field of tourism, in the departments dealing with international relations at public authorities and local governments.
• Useful acquaintances with: lecturers of departments, some of which are practitioners; the community of our students and graduates who already work and hold a number of high positions; our partners, who are also employers.
• High competitiveness in the employment market.

Without a doubt. Machine-building enterprises and firms, pharmaceutical industry, packaging production, agro-industrial complex and other enterprises focused on the export-import industry, currency departments of banks, local governments, etc. Our students work at these companies and build a successful career living in Sumy

This information is available on our website. Companies with which we cooperate on the issues of employment of our students are here.

In the Telegram network. Lecturers have created and run a special chat for students and entrants, where you can ask any additional questions on the specialty and get an answer very quickly. Telegram-chat of the Department of International Economic Relations of SSU

Or on the page of our department in FaceBook

And on Instagram , our students and we post highlights from our lives

Sure, you can. You can even meet and talk to the head of the department.
Our address is: Sumy State University, Petropavlivska Str., 57, Building. «2», Room 315, Sumy.
You can also write in social networks or phone+38 0542 665042.