The programme ensures acquiring and updating knowledge on the processes in the global economic environment and their impact on corporate management in all industries. The highly interdisciplinary nature of the doctoral programme grants the graduates in other professional areas an opportunity to master and expand their competence in various areas of the modern economic environment, transcending the political borders of individual countries. The range of doctoral theses topics is extremely wide; however, their emphasis is put on evolution, state and prospects of the processes in the global economic and financial environment as well as their impact on the economic processes in Bulgaria. A substantial part of the analyses in the doctoral theses are the policies of the EU and the Bulgarian governments as well as their role in the specific internal consequences of the global environment changes.