HSE University Life

Dear students, if you are entitled to a social stipend (a social academic scholarship usually payable to quota students) please note that due to certain unexpected technical problems with bank transfers, September stipends will be paid out in cash.

A group of HSE students have returned from their trip to China. They spent two weeks at the Summer School organised by the Southwest University of Political Science and Law in Chongqing. They shared their impressions with HSE News Service.

On September, 8 th  the HSE St Petersburg’s History Department opened a new Summer School on 'The Topography of Imperial Power: the Political Space of St. Petersburg'.

Students from HSE Nizhny Novgorod prepared a presentation in which they revealed the truth about well-known stereotypes.

This year the competition is accepting papers in 18 areas, two of which are new — Computer Science and Cultural Studies.

Students of the HSE campus in Perm who studied on the joint master’s programme with the University of Essex have been awarded their Master of Science degrees.

Third year HSE Perm management student Anastasia Kulbeda and her partner Dmitry Pleshkov won the gold medal at the World Dance Sport Competition against 16 other couples from Germany, Italy, France and other countries.

A lot of IT companies, both in Russia and throughout the world, organize internships for students. This year students from the Faculty of Computer Science have taken internships at Facebook in the USA and at Google in Europe. Mikhail Dubov, first-year student of the master’s programme in Data Science told us about his internship at Google.

Students on full-degree programmes can apply for a Student Social Card (‘SKS’ in Russian) and it is definitely worth doing right away because it doesn’t just give you a discount on public transport but serves as your banking card to receive your stipend and make purchases.

Daria Skidnova, Research Assistant at the International Laboratory of Intangible-driven Economy, and fourth-year student in economics took part in an international summer school organized by the University of Applied Sciences Bremerhaven.

HSE lecturers and students took part in the 2015 Summer School near the town of Dubna from July 11 through August 10. The representatives of the HSE School of Linguistics organised two different workshops at this year’s School, one on Language and the Brain, aimed at research in the field of neurolinguistics, and one on Linguistics Research, the main areas of which included field linguistics and anthropology.

A free six months of study at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria. Each year one lucky student from the Global Business Master’s Programme is given this lucky ticket. The programme not only gives the student incredible work experience and the opportunity to study in one of the world’s leading economic regions, but the master’s student will also receive a diploma from the Austrian university. This year, the winner was Anna Zotova.