Course Choice and Course Enrollment

Fall 2024 exchange students and freemovers will enroll in courses in summer 2024:

Step 1: 7 - 23 June, 2024: Fill in an online form to apply for HSE courses that interest you. The link to the application form will be sent out by email shortly.

Step 2: July - mid-August 2024: Your course applications will be reviewed by the relevant faculty and you will be notified which of your courses have been approved.

The information below will help you put together your preliminary study plan.

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

The lists below are filtered to show only English-taught courses:

Economics, Finance

Bachelor 'Economics': List 1, List 2List 3, List 4

Master 'Economics', 'Finance': List 1, List 2, List 3, List 4, List 5, List 6

Business, Management

Bachelor: List 1List 2,  List 3List 4

Master:  List 1,  List 2

International Relations and Political Science

Bachelor: List 1, List 2, List 3

Master: List 1,  List 2, List 3 

Languages, Intercultural Communication

Bachelor: List 1, List 2

Master: List 1

Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics

Public Administration

Bachelor: List 1

History, Culture Studies

Marketing

Bachelor: List 1

Master: List 1

Law

Bachelor: List 1, List 2

Master: List 1, List 2, List 3, List 4

Psychology

Bachelor: List 1

Sociology

Bachelor: List 1

Master: List 1List 2,  List 3, List 4

You can aslo check the big HSE Course Catalogue

4. Take into consideration:

Course restrictions

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.