The Department of “State and Corporate Strategies” (formerly “Regional Economics and Management”) as part of the Faculty of Economics of the National University of Uzbekistan was established in 1991 under the name “Economics and Production Management”, and in 1998 the name of the department was changed to “Management”.
In 1991-2002, the department was headed by a famous scientist of the republic, prof. R.M. Mukhiddinov, in 2002-2005 by Assoc. Prof. I.A. Sodikova, in 2006-2011 by Prof. A.A. Mamatov. The Department of “Regional Economics and Management” was created in 2011 as a result of the merger of the departments of “Regional Economics” and “Management”. The Department of “Regional Economics” in 2002-2011 was headed by Prof. A.A. Kayumov. In 2011-2012, the head of the Department of Regional Economics and Management was Assoc. Prof. N.G. Muminov, in 2012-2016 Assoc. Prof. A.A. Khalmirzaev, in 2016-2017 Assoc. Prof. R.N. Rakhmanov, in 2017-2018 Assoc. Prof. P.Z. Khashimov, in 2018-2021 Prof. A.M. Sodikov, and since 2022, the head of the department is Prof. B.E. Tagaev.
The department trains bachelors and masters in the specialties of “Human Resource Management”, “Management”, “Regional Economics”. Since the 2024-2025 academic year, masters have been trained in the specialty of “State and Corporate Strategies”. Today, the department employs 4 doctors of science, professors, 5 candidates of science, associate professors, 2 PhD and 4 senior lecturers, as well as highly qualified foreign specialists.
The department of “State and Corporate Strategies” has the specializations “Management” and “Regional Economics” for the preparation of doctoral dissertations for the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) and Doctor of Science (DSc). Today, along with local researchers, scientific research is carried out by
6 foreign researchers.
For gifted students, the department has organized a club “Management for Economists”, whose members actively participate in national and international Olympiads.
The department has established cooperation in international relations with leading higher education institutions of the world, including Germany, Russia, Belarus, Malaysia, Japan, China, etc.