Customs

Customs

Faculty of Security and Customs

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The program is aimed at training professionals in the field of customs and international economic relations with a deep knowledge and skills both for working in a customs office, carrying out foreign economic activity and working in logistics.

The program covers 2 specializations:

• Customs operations and control
• Information and analytical activities in customs

Advantages:

• Russian customs officials, practitioners from international economic organizations and legal entities involved in the customs activities regularly join the study process
• Since 2017 an additional diploma supplement is issued to graduates confirming that the educational program complies with standards of the World Customs Organization
• Graduates have the opportunity to enroll in various Master’s programs in public and corporate governance

Main courses:

• Risk management in customs
• Customs and tariff regulation of foreign trade
• Customs declarations of goods and vehicles
• Customs analytics
• Business process modelling in customs
• Customs management
• Informational and analytical technologies in customs
• Developing interactive WEB-apps for customs bodies
• Applying data visualization software in professional activities

In-class activities: lectures, laboratory work, practical classes, self-study

Learning outcomes:

• Carrying out customs control
• Implementing risk management system when importing and exporting goods to (from) the territory of the Eurasian Economic Union
• Identifying and combating administrative offences and crimes in the area of customs affairs  
• Implementing IT technologies and systems effectively to improve control functions and business processes in customs and foreign trade
• Skills in big data volume management and analysis and implementing advanced tools and methods of automated structured and non-structured information processing aimed at ensuring security of goods and vehicles supply chains
• Applying information technologies for support of customs bodies, exporters and importers effectively

Career opportunities:

• Senior-level customs officer
• Customs analyst
• Law enforcement officer
• Customs operations manager
• Specialist in logistics and goods expedition
• Lading specialist, head of declaration department
• Detective officer in customs
• E-customs officer