Bryansk Branch of REU named after G.V. Plekhanov

About Bryansk Branch of REU named after G.V. Plekhanov

The Bryansk Branch of Plekhanov Russian University of Economics (Bryansk branch of REU) is a separate territorial unit of the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, a federal state budgetary university whose head office is in Moscow. It is not an independent university. The branch was created on 26 November 2001 as a branch in Bryansk of the Moscow State University of Commerce. In 2002 it became a branch of the Russian State University of Trade and Economics, and in 2012 that university was merged into the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics. The founder of the parent university is the Russian Federation, with the Ministry of Science and Higher Education exercising the founder's functions. The branch is at 8 Bezhitskaya Street, Bryansk. It also uses two other addresses in Bryansk for teaching.

Institutes and research

The branch lists four departments (kafedry): civil and criminal law and procedure and financial-law disciplines; theory and history of state and law and humanities; economics, customs, information technology and natural-science subjects; and technology and management in public catering, management and trade. It also has a department for secondary vocational education.

According to the branch, it offers five higher-education programmes: Economics, Jurisprudence, Management, Technology of products and organisation of public catering, and Customs. It also offers nine secondary vocational programmes in full-time, mixed and part-time forms.

The branch names its research directions as the transition of regional enterprises to international financial reporting standards, management information systems at enterprises, and the effect of digitalisation on corporate culture.

The branch lists cooperation agreements signed in 2024 and 2025 with four universities in Belarus.

Students

According to its history page, the branch has graduated nearly 4,000 specialists since 2001. At the start, only part-time study was planned. Full-time study began three years after the opening.

Housing

The branch has one dormitory with 110 places. Its total area is 767 square metres. Meals are available in the dormitory. One room on the first floor is set aside for students with disabilities.