Since the fall of 2018, the Center for Continuing Education of the Faculty of Computer Science has been conducting training programs for teachers, researchers and students of other universities. Thus, in November last year, the center’s teachers conducted an intensive “Introduction to machine learning” for students of the University of Auvergne Clermont-Ferrand (France), and at the end of January - an intensive course on machine learning for employees of Vyatka State University.
At the beginning of December, the first defense of diplomas of the professional retraining program “Modern Data Analysis, Deep Learning and Applications” took place. Over the course of a year, students went from studying mathematics and programming to working with neural networks, computer vision and text analysis. We asked program graduates about why they decided to study this field, what they learned during their studies, what final projects they chose, and what they plan to do in the future.
HSE has many opportunities for students of various educational programs to learn about modern technologies, learn how to work with data and program. This includes a system of minors, a Data Culture project, and advanced training programs. HSE students, participants in advanced training programs at the Center for Continuing Education, spoke about why, while still studying at the university, they decided to obtain additional qualifications, and also how they planned to apply the knowledge they gained.
In 2011, HSE graduate Irina Demina and her partners launched the Life Button startup, a 24-hour help-call service for older people and people with disabilities. Over the past 2 years, Irina has graduated from three programs at the HSE Center for Continuing Education of the Faculty of Computer Science and is planning to continue her studies. She told the HSE news service about the business results her new knowledge helped achieve.
On April 23-26, a pilot course on the use of modern digital intelligent data processing technologies in the oil and gas sector was held at the Gazprom Neft Scientific and Technical Center in St. Petersburg. The developers and teachers of the program were experts from the Center for Continuing Education of the Faculty of Computer Science.
The ability to program is gradually turning into a skill that is useful to any professional. Ilya Shchurov, a mathematician and teacher at the HSE Center for Continuing Education, spoke about this in his lecture “Programming as New English” as part of the project “A University Open to the City: Lectures by Young HSE Scientists at the ZIL Cultural Center.”
On April 20-22, the third on-site seminar on machine learning, organized by the Department of Big Data and Information Retrieval of the Faculty of Computer Science, took place at the Voronovo training center. The purpose of such trips is to exchange current knowledge about a variety of areas of machine learning, as well as discuss joint projects in data science between HSE teachers and students.
The Higher School of Economics is a research university that carries out its mission through scientific, educational, project, expert-analytical and sociocultural activities based on international scientific and organizational standards. HSE is part of the global academic community, involved in global university interaction. The educational process is closely intertwined with research work. There are Cooperation Agreements, exchange and double degree programs with leading universities in the world.
Until 2014, HSE had about 40 faculties and departments. In the spring of 2014, structural reforms began: “large” faculties (“megafaculties”) were created at the university. These are analogues of the institutes (higher schools) that make up many universities around the world, and recently some of Russian universities.
In fact, we are not talking about consolidating existing faculties and departments (departments have been created on their basis), but about combining them into subject clusters. The “megafaculties” included departments, their varieties - schools, as well as specialized research centers and units of additional education.
"Large" faculties, consisting of departments, administer education.
“Large” faculties of HSE
- Faculty of Computer Science;
- Faculty of Economic Sciences;
- Faculty of Business and Management;
- Faculty of Communications, media and design;
- Faculty of World Economy and World Politics;
- Faculty of Humanities;
- Faculty of Social Sciences;
- Faculty of Mathematics; Faculty of Law;
- Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics.
Diploma from the University of London at ICEF
Since 1997, the Higher School of Economics, together with the London School of Economics and Political Science (a division of the University of London), has been implementing a unique project for Russian education. Training in International Institute of Economics and Finance ( ICEF) is conducted entirely in English according to programs approved by the HSE’s British partners. ICEF undergraduate graduates receive two diplomas - from the Higher School of Economics and the University of London. Graduates of the ICEF master's program receive a diploma from the National Research University Higher School of Economics and an official letter of certificate from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Studying at ICEF is free of charge.
Additional and business education
Already in the first years of work, the Higher School of Economics opened educational programs designed for adults who need to improve their skills, undergo professional retraining or obtain a second higher education in the field of management, finance, marketing, personnel management, and accounting. In 1999, the first intake for the MBA (Master of Business Administration) program was held. Subsequently, programs appeared in business informatics, practical psychology, corporate management, and even - with the addition of the State Academy of Investment Sector Specialists (GASIS) to the Higher School of Economics - in the field of construction and utilities. HSE departments offering continuing education programs work closely with faculties, research centers and laboratories of the university. To work with students, they invite the best teachers with experience in business or consulting for companies.
Today, at the Higher School of Economics you can receive additional professional education in the following programs:
- training
- professional retraining
- MBA (Master of Business Administration)
- EMBA (Executive Master of Business Administration)
- DBA (Doctor of Business Administration)
- Advanced Master in International Business
- Double Degree Program - Sports Management
- presidential program
- corporate training
The full name of the educational institution is National Research University Higher School of Economics, abbreviated as HSE. The unofficial name is the result of student folk art - “Higher”.
This university is among the top 5 best universities in the country and is rightly considered the most progressive and prestigious among the capital’s institutions.
General information about the National Research University "Higher School of Economics"
The university operates on a budgetary-commercial basis: the institution receives government subsidies, income from its own scientific projects, contract students and from third-party sponsors and organizations. Such multi-channel injections into the university budget enable the institution’s management to constantly improve the material and technical base of HSE and the very quality of education.
The National Research University Higher School of Economics operates 128 research centers, 36 scientific and design laboratories, 32 international laboratories led by foreign researchers. HSE conducts the most intensive international activities among capital universities, cooperates with 298 foreign partners, and has 41 double degree programs with foreign universities.
It is noteworthy that from the very day of its foundation the institution has been headed by a permanent rector - Ya. I. Kuzminov.
“We study not for school, but for life” is the motto of the Higher School of Economics.
History of University
The Higher School of Economics cannot boast of a turbulent history. The first brick of this European-oriented university was not laid by Peter I himself, and its corridors were not trampled by Lomonosov or Nietzsche.
This is a relatively young, but very intensively developing, progressive university. If educational institutions were identified with cities, then HSE would be Singapore or Hong Kong.
So, the school was opened for students from November 17, 1992. Already in 2009, this university received the title of National Research University on a competitive basis.
Faculty of Law. We can safely say that this faculty prepares the best lawyers of Russian modern times. This is not unreasonable, because the university itself was created not without the participation of the administrative and ruling elite. It is important to note that students are taught material with a huge emphasis on practice. Specialists from government agencies, practicing lawyers, etc. are invited.
Faculty of Humanities. This faculty cannot be called specialized for HSE; reviews from experts also note that humanities students are trained here with the understanding that their specialization is a priori inferior to that of computer scientists or economists. But the faculty has the strongest school of foreign languages. Also, most lectures are public and optional for students of other specialties. Every student who wants to broaden their horizons can come to cultural studies, philosophy and additional courses in foreign languages.
Faculty of Communications, Media and Design. This faculty is the domain of female students; there are even fewer males here than in the pedagogical institute. Apparently, the laurels of Anna Wintour or Carrie Bradshaw no longer give rest to the fair sex. But seriously, the faculty trains not only journalists, but rather full-fledged specialists for media communications with an emphasis on working in the Internet environment, PR companies, and design institutions.
Faculty of Economic Sciences- the most specialized and largest faculty. Student reviews of economics and statistics at HSE as a field of study sound rather ambiguous. Allegedly, the academic workload among students is borderline unbearable. But cooperation with global transnational corporations and universities, which is available at this faculty, gives students access to unique knowledge and the opportunity for unlimited development and successful employment anywhere in the world. Future Henry Fords and Adam Smiths are produced here. Let us lower our eyes to the fact that the well-known S. Mavrodi successfully studied here.
International Institute of Economics and Finance (ICEF)
This faculty should definitely be discussed separately. This is a diamond among pearls. A unique educational institution in the CIS. To create it back in 1997, the National Research University Higher School of Economics and the London School of Economics (one of the three leaders in economic education in the world) joined forces. And it turned out to be such a grandiose creation. Graduates of the institute receive both candy and ice cream - a diploma from the Higher School of Economics and a diploma from the London School of Economics.
The competition is merciless, and the workload at the faculty is impressive. From the very first day of school, all training is conducted in English. Budget places are only for winners of the All-Russian Olympiad. Enthusiastic reviews of international relations at HSE only fuel public interest in this university. Students spend a third of their course in London, absorbing all the practical knowledge that the experience of such an education can give. The excitement around admission to this faculty is enormous; even the tuition fee of 600 thousand rubles per year does not stop applicants.
If you don’t have the courage and finances to study at ICEF, you can get a bachelor’s degree at another faculty and enroll in a master’s program through a double degree program. HSE has 40 such programs.
Features of studying at HSE
There are a large number of educational features at the Higher School of Economics. Reviews from students note that studying at this university is completely different from standard education in our country. But this is easy to explain - the university greedily absorbs the experience of successful global educational institutions. And if we pay attention to the success of HSE graduates, it would also do well for other national universities to broaden their views on teaching and not turn away from successful world experience.
The Higher School of Economics became one of the first national universities to switch to a 4+2 curriculum (bachelor's, master's). The academic year is divided not into semesters, but into modules, there are four of them, and at the end of each, students receive certification. The sum of the module grades determines the annual grade.
The grading system is ten-point, in the European style.
In the tactics of constructing the educational process, an orientation towards success is visible. Students are immediately trained to be confident, competitive and highly motivated. The university has a rating system. Reviews from HSE students about these same ratings are full of devilish smiley faces, but even dissatisfied, tired students admit that nothing motivates as much as this very rating risk.
So what's the big deal? It's simple. Contractors with high ratings receive discounts or are transferred to the budget. State employees with a high rating retain their stipend, those with an average rating lose their stipend, and those with a low rating are transferred to a contract. This encourages students to be active, study non-stop, and get used to the conditions of a highly competitive environment.
There is no such subject as “Physical Education” at the university. There is a gym, various sections, courses, etc. Please develop yourself, take care of your health and physical condition. But this is a matter of choice.
Positive feedback from students about HSE
The only thing more subjective than the opinions of students is the opinion of children. Often reviews from HSE students are based on personal success or failure in their studies. But quite a few young people dare to express their opinion about HSE objectively and rationally.
A huge plus for the university - for this circumstance alone, it needs to erect a monument in the form of a happy student - there is practically no corruption at HSE. This is noted by most students. Either the reason is the intensive funding of the university’s activities by sponsors, or loyalty to the principles of “European transparency,” but students agree that it is very possible to obtain a diploma with knowledge alone.
The quality of knowledge, lectures and training of teachers varies among different faculties. If we analyze reviews of HSE in Moscow, students agree that the quality of teaching in the humanities and political science fields is slightly behind.
Not a single review can describe the quality of education as eloquently as the statistics on employment by profile after graduating from this university: 94% of graduates found a suitable job. This is despite the fact that 48% found a warm corporate job even before receiving their diploma. Leading companies send their recruits to prestigious universities to scout for valuable talent while they are still in college.
What negative aspects of studying at HSE do students most often mention in their reviews?
Most of all, students complain about the workload and the need to gain knowledge in conditions of constant competition. We can endlessly discuss whether it is possible to pit students who were children just yesterday against each other. But the HSE management has made a choice, and the rating system is not going to be abolished.
Students are also indignant about the Anti-Plagiarism system. There is a university program where every work is checked. In the text, only 20% citations are allowed with an exact indication of the source. Everything else is the author’s personal judgments, conclusions, etc. Naturally, this greatly increases the time for preparing essays and coursework for students.
Dormitories of the Higher School of Economics
HSE buildings are scattered throughout the city, as are the dormitories. Today the Higher School of Economics operates 9 dormitories. Reviews about HSE dormitories are mostly positive, but extremely ironic. The whole humor is that they are located in the Moscow region, and the road from their place of residence to the academic building is inexhaustible ground for student jokes. If we put this inconvenience aside, the rest of the HSE dormitories are made “for the people.” They are apartment type, they have all the amenities. There is one in Moscow. It is cheaper and closer, but is suitable only for residents who are unpretentious in terms of comfort.
All dormitories have free wireless Internet with access at any time of the day.
The atmosphere in the hostel is upbeat, productive and motivating. HSE did an elementally brilliant thing, they paid tribute to the desire of every person for everyday comfort. They made modern classrooms and dormitories for students, and they don’t worry about storing water in basins, washing their hair at the sink, etc. They care about acquiring knowledge and self-development.
Master's programs at HSE: student reviews, master's programs
Documents are accepted in electronic form. After approval of the electronic application, the originals can be brought to the admissions office or sent by mail.
All applicants undergo a competition in the form of entrance exams (most often economics + English + mathematics, but disciplines vary depending on the faculty).
The enrollment order is issued somewhere in mid-August, two weeks before the start of lectures.
Master's programs at HSE look very attractive. Almost all of them are bilateral and provide students with the opportunity to obtain double diplomas and gain a unique learning experience at Today, HSE cooperates with the universities of Humboldt in Berlin, Pantheon-Sorbonne in Paris, Mason in New York, with 10 universities in Britain, including the London School of Political Science, and also higher institutions in Canada, USA, Luxembourg, Finland, etc.