Preliminary Course Choice

You will enroll in HSE University courses before the start of the semester on HSE SmartLMS platform.

While preparing for your semester, you should put together a preliminary study plan by choosing courses from the HSE course catalogue and having it approved by your home university.

1. Check your home university's requirements for your study plan at HSE University.

required minimum number of credits per semester
required course level (Bachelor/Master courses)
required fields of study
required language of instruction

2. Check HSE University's requirements

Most HSE courses are 3-6 ECTS. The usual workload is 20-30 ECTS per semester. If you come to Russia on an HSE student visa, you are expected to enrol in at least 15 ECTS per semester due to visa regulations.
At HSE, you can take some courses that do not belong to your major at your home university. However, most of your courses should correspond to your major.

3. Check study plans of HSE degree programmes similar to your major

1. Find an HSE programme that is similar to your major at your home university.

2. Open the programme page and click on 'Courses' in the right-hand side menu

4. Check the HSE Course Catalogue

You can find a list of courses and course info in the HSE Course Catalogue.

5. Take into consideration:

Course restrictions

Courses that belong to the following educational programmes are not open to exchange students:

- Master in International Business

- International Program 'International Relations and Global Studies'

- HSE University and Kyung Hee University Double Degree Programme in Economics and Politics in Asia

- Master in Economic Analysis

- Master in Sustainable Business Management

- Master in Math of Machine Learning (courses run by Skoltech)

- Master in Financial Engineering

- Master of Data Science

- Marketing Management

- Master of Finance

- Master of Business Analytics

- Digital Product Management

- Economics and Company Management (Institute of Professional Retraining)

- Financial Management (Institute of Professional Retraining)

- Правовое сопровождение бизнеса (in Russian)

Course Type

Elective courses run only if enough students enroll in them. Students enroll in electives at the same time as exchange students: in June and December.

Faculty, Level

Exchange students are not allocated to any particular study programme or faculty and are free to take courses from any faculty at any level of study, except for the courses from the 'Course resctictions' section. However, we recommend focusing on the courses that are close to your major in your home university.

Module

If you are going to study at HSE University from September to December, you will be taking courses that run in Modules 1 and 2. If you are going to study in Spring, you need courses that will run in Modules 3 and 4.

Timetable

The final timetable of courses is available several weeks prior to the start of the studies. A course may be cancelled/postponed or the timetable may be changed due to professor’ plans changes or programme re-design.

Number of places

The number of places on every course is limited. Admission is on a first come, first served basis.

Prerequisites

Some courses may have pre-requisites. Please check carefully course desciptions in the course catalogue.