The International Institute of Business - the Institution of Higher Education was established by the Central European University Fund (New-York) and the Institute of Public Administration in 1993.
IIB's mission is:
- educating and preparing the leaders for effective business management in Ukraine;
- establishing professional standards in business management, marketing, finance, information technology, which express the best world business experience and lead Ukraine in the global market;
- adopting and transforming international experience and the best worldwide practice of improvement the business-processes in Ukrainian companies for the successful global competition.
Nowadays the International Institute of Business (IIB) is one of the leading business schools in Ukraine and offers a wide range of programs, including:
1. Diploma programs:
- Ukrainian Program in Business Administration (Finance, Marketing);
- Canadian Management Studies Diploma Program in Ukraine (Grant Mac Ewan College, Edmonton, Canada);
- Programs of The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), United Kingdom;
- Advanced Certificate in Marketing;
- Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing;
- Master of Business Administration program.
2. In-company programs.
3. Management development programs ( in management, corporate governance, finance and accounting, marketing and sales, securities and fund market, property and business appraisal, privatization).
IIB's advantages are as follows:
- Professionalism of Ukrainian leading instructors with practical business experience, who studied the training courses and had practice in Western universities.
- Usage of contemporary methods and materials of famous educational institutions of Western Europe and North America and best Ukrainian business practice
- The use of combination of the latest theoretical concepts with advanced training technologies during the teaching process.
- Practical experience at many Ukrainian and foreign companies and institutions.
- Modern educational and technical facilities (computer laboratories, Internet, equipment for presentations, Canadian Business Resource Centre, comfortable class-rooms).
To develop the new spheres of activity , make research, create professional environment and establish the ties with business, to work out the new programs the Development centres were created at the IIB. They are:
- Corporate Governance Center;
- Centre for Applied Management, Strategies and Marketing;
- HR development Center;
- Productivity Center (for Operations Management and Controlling Development).
The International Institute of Business cooperates with many national and foreign organizations and institutions. They are:
The State Property Fund of Ukraine
The State Commission on Securities and Stock Market of Ukraine
The State Committee of Ukraine of Entrepreneurship Development
Appraisers Association of Ukraine
KFW (Germany)
Canadian International Development Agency - CIDA (Canada)
Consortium for Enhancement of Ukrainian Management Education
CEUME (lead by University of Minnesota)
Grant Mac Ewan College (Canada)
Institute of Actuaries (UK)
Ivey Richard Business School (Canada)
The Chartered Institute of Marketing, CIM (UK)
University of New Brunswick, UNB (Canada)
The World Bank