HISTORY of the UNIVERSITY

The University's history goes back to 1954 when the Frunze Soviet Commerce Technical School opened its doors to its first entrants.

Based on a Resolution of the Ministers' Council of the Kyrgyz SSR (Soviet Socialist Republic) issued on October 28th 1953, the Soviet Commerce Technical School was created and in 1957, the first specialists graduated. In 1955, the technological department for training technicians/production engineers and specialists for public food organisations opened and lawyers have been trained here since 1988.

Over 10,000 specialists have been trained in the technical school since it opened.

In 1991, the Technical School was reorganized into the Bishkek Commercial College and in 1997, a Resolution of the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic issued on December 29th 1997, gave it the status of the Bishkek Higher Commercial College (BHCC).

In December 1999, the College became an institute and was named the Bishkek State Institute of Economics and Business (BSIEC) and on December 9th 2003, it was granted the status of a University in accordance with Resolution #762 of the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic and is now known in the republic as the Bishkek State University of Economics and Business (BSUEB).

And already at the beginning initially 2008 was renamed to Kyrgyz Economic University (KEU).

THE UNIVERSITY'S EDUCATIONAL STRUCTURE

If you want to get an international level of economical education and become a leader in your business, our University awaits you and we have everything you need to get in-depth knowledge here.

The University uses:
- Highest quality of international standard educational programmes;
- State-of-the-art active training methods;
- Modular educational system and tests to assess students' knowledge;
- On the job training with Kyrgyz and foreign businesses;
- In-depth studies of foreign languages.

The University has:
-Its own specialized library adapted to the demands of its unique training process;
-Modern equipments for studying in specialized lecture rooms;
-Great opportunities for internships and studies abroad.

The University holds:
-Themed roundtables involving schoolchildren, students, businessmen and politicians;
-Meetings with business leaders, scientists and politicians;
-Annual scientific conferences for students;
-Regular assessments of lecturers' work by students.

OUR ACHIEVEMENTS AND ADVANTAGES

The Kyrgyz Economic University (KEU) is the only specialized state multilevel economical higher educational institute (HEI) in Kyrgyzstan that meets the conditions and requirements of the market.
It includes a Lyceum, College, University and a Master's and Doctor's Degree Department.
The University's external contacts are expanding every year. Currently, we are cooperating and working on joint projects with such international organizations and foundations, as Tempus from the European Union, Soros-Kyrgyzstan, Eurasia, Helvetas Swiss Association, EDNET, DAAD, I REX and ACCELS. The KEU actively cooperates with leading educational institutions from CIS and other foreign countries to improve our educational activities and enhance the quality of specialist training,. Among them they are Strathclyde, Great Britain; Erasmus High School, Belgium; Leruzhiysk, Italy; Vatel, France; Rovaniemi Polytechnic, Finland; Orkan, Mongolia as well as the best institutes of higher educational institution in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. As a result of this close cooperation our students have the opportunity to do internships in other countries where they can study modern educational technologies and gain practical experience in European Higher Education Institutes, including Bologna, Italy.
The basic principle of the University's development includes organic links between educational and scientific-research activities when training specialists based upon the latest achievements in science and engineering. KEU scientific activities are aimed at researching theoretical, methodological and applied problems of changing to a market economy.
Research is conducted into such subjects as development of the republic's economy, financial and economic conditions in the republic, accountancy analysis, business development, and the tourism industry. There are over 100 lecturers, 14 of who are economic science PhDs and 45 are economic science candidates.
At present, the University independently publishes the KEU Bulletin. It is also a co-founder of the Chief Accountant republican scientific-practical magazine and helps to publish the Reform scientific-economical magazine.
We appeal to all people who strive for knowledge, who are prepared to work hard to become highly qualified specialists and who will be in demand in the future, to study at our Higher Educational Institute.

ACHIEVEMENTS of the UNIVERSITY

In 2004 a member of republican KVN team of Kyrgyzstan, the student Bayish Baygaziev took part in the anniversary musical festival of KVN in the city, Sochi.
In 2004 students became prize-winners of the competition having won the 3rd place among the city universities in the City festival of the student's research work "Spring of Bishkek -2004".
In 2005 students became prize-winners of the competition having won the 1st place among the city universities in the City festival of student's research work "Spring of Bishkek -2005".
In 2005 Grand-Prix in the Republic Festival "Student Spring Ala-Too-2005"
In 2005 BSUEB was awarded a prize for the successful results in the "Universiade -2005"
In 2005 1st place in the festival "The youth of Kyrgyzstan sings songs about the war", devoted to the 60th anniversary of Victory.
In 2005 The owner of the first prize of Republican competition "The best university on training specialists for Tourism Industry"
In 2006 students became the prize-winner of the competition having won Gran-Prix among the universities in the City festival "Students spring Ala-Too 2006"
In 2006 students became the prize-winners of the competition having won the 1st place among the universities in the republican festival "Students spring Ala-Too-2006".
In 2006 BSUEB became the educational and scientific-industrial base for training and raising the ievel of specialists' skill for tourism industry of Kyrgyzstan, in accordance with a cooperation within the Memorandum between the Ministry of industry, trade and tourism of Kyrgyz Republic and Ministry of education, science and youth politic of Kyrgyz Republic from 3rd of May 2006.
In 2006 our university became the prize-winner of European Grand Prix fund for the achievements of high levels of quality in the field of the university professional education, carried out on the base of international monitoring of the quality of training specialists.

INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION

This department develops the external contacts of the University with various international organizations and funds, such as the Soros - Kyrgyzstan Foundation, Eurasia foundation, Peace Corps, Ednet, DAAD.
Helvetas and supports contacts with Embassies of the USA, India, Germany, France etc, and implements joint projects with the TEMPUS-TACIS programme to improve the learning process, increase the professional level of teachers by holding seminars, training and roundtables and attracting international organizations and teachers of partner HEI from abroad.
This academic year, for example, we are completing work on the ToHost-CA Curriculum of tourism and hospitality in Central Asia project under the Tempus programme. You can find out more about this interesting project by reading our soon to be published scientific papers, project material and the existing website.
Training for teachers and students under the DOKEOS programme plays a great role in improving the learning process and the certificates awarded prove their level of professionalism.
Training for teachers and students under the DOKEOS programme plays a great role in Improving the learning process and the certificates awarded prove their level of professionalism.
We have received delegations from HEI of many countries: Mongolia - Finance-economic institute of Ulan Bator; Germany University of Osnabruck; Norway association of universities; Canada St. Mary's University; Kazakh Universities; India - Green Meadows company. The aim of these visits was cooperation, scientific experience exchange and internships for teachers and students.
Our HEI has also been active in international educational organizations and KEU is a member of Eurodip and the European Association for International Education (EAIE) a leading European higher education organisation. The geographical spread of cooperation with HEI of foreign countries is expanding and the number of visits and internships is increasing and in May 2005 the Rector of our HEI visited Canada on an administration study tour. Three teachers who competed in the 'Kadry 21 veka' (Staff of the 21st Century) won one-month internships in India. 22 students have visited Belgium and 4 have been to France. In the last two years 20 teachers have been on internships abroad and these have increased the levels of professionalism meeting international educational standards.
Significant interest in our University has been shown by many members of Eurodip, EAIE and partner HEI from Germany, Austria and Great Britain, which will allow our HEI to join the European education space and, of course, will improve our image and education content.
One result of KEU international cooperation is the honoured title of Laureate of the European Grand Prix Fund for achieving high quality marks for higher professional education based on international monitoring of the quality of training for specialists.

FOREIGN PARTNERS

Erasmus High School, Brussel, Belgium
Salford University, England
Buhara State University
Tashkent State University
Vridjskiy University, Belgium
Rovaniemi Politeknik, Finland
Perudjia University, Italy
Straidklaid University, England
Orhon University, Mongolia
Ulanbaator Finance-Economic institute, Mongolia
Pavlodar University, Kazahstan
Kl МЕР, Kazahstan
Kiev State Trade-Economic University
RSTEU, Russia
Green Meadows Consulting, India
Vatel Institute, Eurodip
European Association of International Education
Getty University, Kazahstan
Saint Meris University, Canada
AlZahra University, Iran
AlaTabaTabai University, Iran
Taraz Institute of International Kazakh-Turkish
University by A. Yasavi.