OREANDA-NEWS. MSU Higher School of Innovational Business (Corporate University) master's degree certificates were solemnly awarded at Lomonosov Moscow State University. 12 young specialists of OAO NK RussNeft and its subsidiaries successfully completed a two-year course. Totally, over thirty employees of the Company have upgraded their qualifications and obtained the master's degree at various departments of the University since 2010.

The second university degree is provided to employees of the oil and gas company under the joint educational project of RussNeft and Lomonosov MSU resumed in 2010. The mater's programs of MSU Higher School of Innovational Business were developed by specialists of the Moscow State University and NK RussNeft based on the actual objectives of oil corporations including OAO NK RussNeft.

The University selects the faculty and helps to develop special programs for the school during the project. NK RussNeft, from its part, supports the school materially and financially including provision of up-to-date research and educational equipment, software, methodological literature as well as it pays for the students education.

In addition, OAO NK RussNeft jointly with Gubkin Russian State Oil and Gas University implements a long-term program for preparation of highly qualified young specialists who will eventually find employment at the holding's subsidiaries and in the oil industry in general.