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Tuition Fees and Scholarships for International Students
The tuition fee of the International Bachelor's Programme in Economics and Finance is from 192,500 to 770,000 RUB per year (depending on the level of tuition fee discount) in the academic year 2023/2024.
Tuition fee scholarships
ICEF BSs programme offers a flexible system of tuition fee discounts for prospective international students and BSc international students with high academic achievement. According to ICEF statistics, every year more than 60% of first year international students receive a discount from 15% to 100% of a tuition fee (>70% in 2022).
The size of a discount for freshmen is based on the entrance examination results and the results of various academic Olympiads.
Scholarships and partial scholarships based on academic Olympiads
Scholarship
Awards
100%
to holders of gold, silver or bronze medals received at the International Olympiad for school students in Economics
to winners of the HSE International Olympiad in mathematics
75%
to awardees of the HSE International Olympiad in mathematics
to winners (1st Class diploma) of Interregional Olympiad Vysshaya Proba in economics or mathematics
60%
to prizewinners (2nd Class diploma) of Interregional Olympiad Vysshaya Proba in economics or mathematics
45%
to prizewinners (3rd Class diploma) of Interregional Olympiad Vysshaya Proba in economics or mathematics
To graduates of International Preparatory Programmes Centre (IPP), courses for continuing education such as Russian as a foreign language, provided by HSE University based on their results and subject to the provision of a document confirming successful completion of the respective programme
15%
winners and prizewinners of the Interregional Olympiad Vysshaya Proba for school students in areas other than Economics and Mathematics
winners and prizewinners of the HSE International Olympiad in areas other than Economics and Mathematics
Graduates of the HSE University Lyceum, distributed lyceum schools, HSE
base schools, and the University’s partner schools
Please, mind that all applicants must take entrance exams regardless of achievements in academic Olympiads.
Partial scholarships based on entrance examination
Scholarship based on entrance examination to be provided to all applicants. It is calculated with the weighted average for two entrance exams: Mathematics and English language.
Weighted average is calculated as the sum of exam mark for Mathematics multiplied by 2 plus exam mark for English.
* Weighted sum: Math exam score is multiplied by 2; then it is summed up with the English exam score.
Terms of receiving / extending scholarships on subsequent years
In subsequent years of study, a scholarship is assigned depending on the student's performance and his/her place in the final ranking for the year (at least 72 places with partial scholarships from 15 to 75%). See clause 3.5 of Regulations on Provision of Tuition Discounts 2023 for details.
In addition to this number in each course, students are added who received “protected” partial scholarships upon admission to the program and fulfilled preferential conditions for extending these scholarship for the next year. See paragraph 3.5.8 of Regulations on Provision of Tuition Discounts 2023 for details.
As a result, about half of 2nd-4th year students receive partial scholarships at ICEF.
