How HSE Supports Its Students

HSE supports its students in many ways, from providing financial assistance to helping students reach their academic and professional potential. Read on to learn more about what the University does to support its undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral students.

Creativity, Business, Travel, and Career Development

From the moment you step on campus as an HSE student, you can receive support from the University in terms of both your professional and personal growth.

The Student Initiative Support Centre is dedicated to activating the creative potential of HSE students. In addition to helping students start and promote organizations, associations, and clubs, the Centre provides assistance with holding university-wide events.

Today HSE is home to about 200 student organizations. The range of their activities is wide: from arts and culture to sports, investments to volunteering, foreign languages ​​to entertainment, HSE student life has something for everyone.

Academic mobility programmes also provide exciting enrichment opportunities. HSE students can expand their professional and personal horizons by studying at another HSE campus, another Russian university, or a university abroad.

Valeria Kasamara, Vice Rector, HSE University

This year, HSE students have access to over 70 universities in 27 countries around the world, each of which has its own unique set of areas and disciplines. Mobility programmes offer free tuition at universities around the world, and some universities offer scholarships that cover room, board, and transportation.

Studying abroad is very simple: study well enough (have an average current score of at least 6) and pass an international exam in the relevant foreign language (if the university requires it). After that, you just need to choose a programme that corresponds with your own, calculate your budget, apply online, and wait for your results. If you are accepted, you can apply for a visa (if applicable), design your individual curriculum, and book your plane ticket.

Don’t put off applying until right before the deadline; apply as soon as possible. Browse the programme catalogue, and apply online. You know what to do.

For those who dream of conquering the world through entrepreneurship, the HSE Business Incubator is the best university accelerator according to the 2019 UBI Global international rating. It teaches not only HSE undergraduate and master’s students how to build a business from the ground up, but external students as well.

Throughout its existence of more than 10 years, the HSE Business Incubator has attracted 1.3 billion rubles in investments and helped several thousand startups from all over Russia test ideas, release products, and launch businesses.

For those not interested in launching a startup, the Career Development Centre offers assistance and guidance in a wide range of other professional trajectories. The division cooperates with more than 500 Russian and foreign employers, including Sberbank, Rosneft, the Ministry of Economic Development and Justice of the Russian Federation, as well as Microsoft, Google, Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola, EY, Mercedes-Benz, Bloomberg, McKinsey and other well-known global companies. The Centre's staff advises students on career development, resume writing, organizes master classes and workshops with employers, and hosts a large career fair, the HSE Career Marathon.

When they graduate, HSE alumni do not lose access to HSE’s support network. The Alumni Centre helps former students stay in touch with HSE (you can get a pass to all buildings on the Moscow campus and use the campus’s coworking spaces and libraries and take university elective courses). The unit also offers career advising for alums and runs a mentoring programme that helps HSE students of different generations share their professional experience with each other.

Payments, Scholarships, and Other Forms of Financial Support

The social policy of HSE University stipulates that various categories of students are eligible for financial support. For example, assistance is provided to students who have children.

More information about all of the types of social assistance can be found on the page of the Office of Staff and Student Benefits.

Students can also receive special scholarships in recognition of their academic success. University students leading an active research, social, and creative life can qualify for increased payments.

All types of scholarships, as well as the criteria for obtaining them, can be found on the page of the Centre for Scholarships and Charitable Programmes.