One conclusion: for a successful career in the field of professional manager should choose the best of the local universities. Traditionally valued large and well-known universities in Moscow and St. Petersburg. High weight Diploma gives the existence of educational techniques on standard MBA that there is often a non-state business schools. After graduating from these places, you get at least a strong belief that you will work on a specialty and not anyhow any office. Learn to be in them, to put it mildly, difficult. But in the presence of mind and willpower - it is quite possible.
If there is money to pay for training and a good knowledge of foreign languages, choose to study a good European or American university. Domestic MSU, MGIMO, and the like do not reach the level of French, British and American high schools even put together. American diploma or evrodiplom - springboard into senior management majors. The problem of tuition they can be solved by winning educational scholarship. Some of these scholarships include paying not only the training but also living. Many large companies can pay their own foreign education for prospective students. But instead of future graduates will have to work in this company 5-10-15 years.
You can simply pass the short-term training courses in the specialty manager. Typically, they are designed for one or more weeks. Good knowledge of these courses you do not get just a representation of the profession and the basics. And to build a career on such a certificate will be impossible.