Course Choice
Course enrollment:
1. Exchange and visiting students put together their study plan by themselves from courses available at HSE University based on their home univeristy's requirements.
2. Course lists for 2025/26 academic year are expected to be available in June 2025.
3. Course enrollment consists of these stages:
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Students submit their course applications
9 June - 22 June 2025: Fill in an online course application form. Students will receive a link to the form by e-mail.
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Course applications considered by HSE faculties
July – 1st half of August 2025: course applications will be considered and accepted/rejsected by HSE faculties
How to put together your 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.
- Bachelor students normally enrol in Bachelor-level courses at HSE. Master level students are allowed to enroll in both Master and Bachelor-level courses.
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: List 1, List 2, List 3, List 4, List 5
Master: List 1, List 2, List 3, List 4, List 5, List 6, List 7
Business, Management
International Relations and Political Science
Languages, Intercultural Communication, Culture Studies
Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics
Marketing
Bachelor: List 1
Law
Mathematics
Psychology
Bachelor: List 1
Sociology
You can aslo check the big HSE Course Catalogue.
4. Russian as a Foreign Language Course
Exchange and visiting students can enroll in a Russian as a Foreign Language Course (6 ECTS per semester). Any level is available. Current schedule
5. Take into consideration:
Course restrictions
- Master in International Business
- HSE University and Kyung Hee University Double Degree Programme in Economics and Politics in Asia
- Master in Math of Machine Learning (courses run by Skoltech)