PRUZHININ ALEXANDER N.

The article discusses the ability of modern corporate universities of ‘Rosneft’ and ‘Gazprom Neft’ to reproduce the necessary knowledge and technology for their companies. Corporate education becomes an important component of the company, which allows to react to market conditions in advance, upgrade equipment and improve the efficiency of management processes, which ultimately leads to an increase in profits and the implementation of the sustainable development program, as well as other competitive advantages. The main source of research data are annual company reports. Additional sources are press releases, brochures, corporate sites. The article presents modern theoretical ideas about the development of corporate education. In turn, corporate universities act as a unity of structural, intellectual, organizational capital. The author analyzes the increase in the effectiveness of corporate education and the economic effect of it for the period from 2010 to 2017. The interest in increasing the economic effect of the educational process makes companies thoroughly approach the organization of the latter. There are four basic functions: the first - training of employees at all levels; the second - knowledge management, combining the experience of employees and its dissemination; the third - the dissemination and implementation of corporate culture, the preservation of company values; the fourth - the creation and implementation of innovations. Attention is also focused on the role of educational courses of the university of the company and interaction with external educational resources, the level of investment in research and development work. Additionally, the coefficient of efficiency of investments in human capital is calculated. The author highlights the shortcomings of modern practice of corporate education, suggests its further development.