If gradually rising enrollment numbers are any indication, students seem to agree with the positive appraisal of EMBA educational quality. Alexei Bogatyryov, the owner of a Moscow construction company, decided to get an EMBA in Russia because the instruction in almost all programs takes place in Russian, he said.

In his estimation, the education that he's receiving in the EMBA program at Moscow State University's Graduate School of Business is about equal to that of Western schools.

«Maybe in status [MGU is] a bit lower, but in terms of the process, our instruction is also based on cases, like in Western schools, and the level of knowledge about subjects that it gives us is sufficient to work in the Russian market,» Bogatyryov said.
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In Moscow State University's Graduate School of Business's EMBA program — where more than two people are competing for each spot in the 25-person class that the school is currently admitting — applicants must have a college degree and at least five years' work experience in a leadership position.
Much of what students learn in class comes from their peers during discussions, said Vyacheslav Boltrukevich, the director of the school's EMBA program.

Even when the EMBA program uses the same business cases as the MBA offering, Boltrukevich said, «the education's different because the group of students is different.»

The program focuses on business development and overall strategy, rather than the business operations on which the school's MBA program concentrates. Furthermore, the MBA program lacks the international component of the EMBA, which includes visiting international professors and sends students abroad for a six-day to seven-day module.

The curriculum comprises eight modules — management, business environment, financial investment, international, human resources, strategy, change management and globalization — and includes classes such as IT in business and cross-cultural management.

«People come to our program less to acquire a toolkit and climb the career ladder — because they're already professionally established — and more for ... rethinking of their professional activity,» Boltrukevich said. He added that the majority of students are studying on their own initiative and at their own expense.

Professional activity aside, spending several nights and weekends a month with 24 other corporate higher-ups isn't a bad way to make valuable contacts. Bogatyryov said he enrolled in his program mainly for the formal education, but he admitted that the acquaintances he made with the «motivated people» around him will likely be useful.

«Alongside the education, I developed my own circle of people,» he said.
Bogatyryov will complete the program in May, but already he said the EMBA program is well worth the higher price. He said he's now ready to lead any project in any sphere of business.
«Before, I wouldn't have tried,» he explained. «Now, I can't wait.»

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