Career Opportunities

Students of the Research Track receive intensive training in theoretical economics. The majority of the Research Track alumni choose an academic career, either to continue study at the HSE University Ph.D. programme since the Research Track is an excellent foundation for this or to continue to top Ph.D. programmes abroad or in Russia. 

Applied Economics and Quantitative Methods tracks open up great prospects for an analytical career in the real sector. Deep knowledge of applied economics and quantitative skills of independent analysis that will be acquired during the master studies are in high demand  

• in central and transnational banks,
• in international audit and consulting companies,
• in analytical and financial-economic divisions of companies of the real and financial sector,
• in research institutes and think tanks. 

Applied Economics (Companies and Markets, Public Economics and Economic Policy) track succeeds the Master's programme in Applied Economics. Graduates will acquire the following competencies:

• knowledge of economic theory at a sufficient level to be able to predict and analyze the consequences of decisions in the field of public policy or company policy;

• ability to develop projects of innovations and institutional design within the framework of state policy or company policy;

• economic data analysis, including data collection, descriptive analysis, statistical testing of hypotheses, identification of statistically significant patterns and causal relationships based on different data sets: spatial samples, time series, panel data, qualitative data.

The acquired competencies and skills will allow graduates of the program to find work in key segments of the labor market (on the examples of employment of graduates of the programmes Applied Economics and Economics: research programme):

• Ministries and Central Banks,  

• Transnational banks,

• Multinational audit and consulting companies,
• Analytical and financial-economic divisions of companies of the real and financial sector, e.g. IBM, RenaissanceCapital, IFC, IMF,

• Independent think tanks and academia, including HSE.