The Interregional Academy of Personnel Management (IAPM, or MAUP in Russian) was founded in 1989 as a nongovernmental higher education and research establishment professionally engaged in problems of management and business. The IAPM represents the largest nongovernmental higher education establishment of Ukraine (around 45,000 students from 32 countries of the world) training experts in 32 specialties, 132 specializations pertaining to 16 fields and branches. Over 20 years of its activities, it has prepared thousands of skilled management experts: production, business and other types of managers, financiers, marketing experts, sociologists, psychologists, and lawyers. The Interregional Academy of Personnel Management includes: Presidential University (city of Kyiv); All-Ukrainian University (institutes, branches, and divisions in all regions of Ukraine); International Open University (foreign branches); More than 2,000 professors and instructors, of whom over 75% are Doctors and Candidates of Sciences, ensure the educational process at the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management.