Belarusian Trade and Economics University of Consumer Cooperatives (BTEU) is an accredited educational and research center of national and international importance with more than 50-year history.

[1] During this time BTEU has trained more than 44 thousand professionals for national economy of the Republic of Belarus as well as for foreign countries.

In 1992 in connection with the termination of activity of Centrosoyuz of the USSR, Gomel Cooperative Institute was handed under the supervision of the Belarusian Republican Union of Consumer Societies.

Belarusian Trade and Economics University of Consumer Cooperatives was awarded the Certificate of Honor of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus No.

936 d/d October 1, 2014 for the significant contribution to the training of highly qualified specialists for the organizations of consumer cooperatives and national economy.