The Russian Foreign Trade Academy of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation

FEDERAL STATE BUDGETARY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION "RUSSIAN FOREIGN TRADE ACADEMY OF THE MINISTRY OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION"

It was founded in 1931. The Academy is the only university which is subordinate to the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation.

For more than 90 years, the RFTA has been training professionals for foreign economic activity. Graduates of the Academy become specialists in the field of international trade, international finance and international economic law.

In 2015, in accordance with the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, the Academy was assigned to the leading universities that have the right to develop and approve educational standards for all levels of higher education independently. Since 2016, the main programs of the Academy have been implemented according to its own educational standards in the following areas of training: economics, management, law (bachelor's degree, master's degree, postgraduate studies), state municipal administration (bachelor's degree), customs (specialist degree), advanced training programs and professional retraining programs.

The structure of the RFTA includes:

- five faculties: Faculty of International Economics (FIE), Faculty of International Finance (FIF), Faculty of Foreign Trade Management (FFTM), Faculty of International Law (FIL) and Faculty of International Business (FIB);

- seven research units: the Institute of International Economics and Finance, the Council for the Study of Productive Forces, the Center for Financial Monitoring, the Institute for Macroeconomic Research, the Center for the development of program-oriented management, the Institute for the Development of Integration Processes, the Center for data Analysis;

- higher courses of foreign languages.

The Academy teaches the following languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Turkish, Hindi, Arabic, Vietnamese, Persian, Russian. The curriculum of the bachelor's degree programs of the Academy provides the compulsory study of two foreign languages, students begin to study the second foreign language from the second year.

The Academy assists students in finding a place of internship as part of the educational process, as well as in subsequent employment. Graduates of the RFTA, having received a high-quality education in the field of foreign economic activity, work in federal executive bodies, federal services, state corporations, trade representative offices, as well as large private Russian and foreign companies and hold senior positions in them.

Thanks to extensive international contacts, students have the opportunity to study at double diploma programs or to complete internships at universities in Turkey, Kazakhstan, Iran, Vietnam, China, India, Mexico, Columbia, Brazil and other countries.

The Academy is a co-founder of two international network universities: the Russian-French University (founded in 2016) and the Alliance of Russian and Spanish Universities (founded in 2019). The RFTA is a member of the Russian-Chinese Association of Economic Universities (since 2021) and  the Russian–Vietnamese Consortium of Economist-Training Universities (since 2024).

The Academy has a branch in the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

The RFTA is the organizer of two international student competitions "WTO Model" and the Competition on International Commercial Arbitration named after M.G. Rosenberg.

The RFTA is the operator of two national projects "Demography" and "Labor Productivity".

On the territory of the Academy there is a modern campus consisting of academic buildings, dormitory, a sports and recreation complex with a swimming pool, gyms and game rooms, a library with a reading room and self-training areas.

In 2021, RFTA took the third place among Russian universities with an enrollment of less than 300 people in terms of the average Unified State Exam score for budget places and the eighth place for extra–budgetary places.

According to the level of salaries of young professionals in the "Superjob for students" rating, the RFTA ranks third in the field of Economics and Finance and ninth in the legal field.

According to the level of demand for graduates, according to the hh.ru 2020 – 2021, graduates of the Law Faculty of the Academy occupy the third place among graduates of Moscow law faculties.