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Graduate of HSE University and UniLu Dual Degree Master programs Tobi Oladiran from Nigeria reflects on his experience and takeaway from the HSE University Master program Strategic Corporate Finance with Aigerim Omarbekova from Kazakhstan, also a first-year international student of the Strategic Corporate Finance program.

Nadia Kotova, Joint HSE/NES undergraduate program in economics '2016 alumna about her past in Russia and PhD program experience at Stanford GSB

Anton Urbanas graduated in 2012 from the Faculty of Economic Sciences at HSE University. Worked at McKinsey from 2012 until 2017. Launched his first startup in fintech with a business partner in 2014. In 2016, began developing an AI platform that generates PowerPoint slides. After moving to the U.S. in 2018, launched the DeckRobot startup that reduces the time required for making presentations to a minimum, saving time for office staff. In 2020, the DeckRobot project attracted $1.5 million of the $2.5 million total investment received to date.

This year for the first time in HSE history, the graduation ceremony will take place at one time for all four HSE campuses. Almost 11,000 students from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, and Perm will gather online to bid the university farewell and celebrate the next chapter in their lives.

The Faculty of Economic Sciences congratulates students and graduates on entering the most prestigious programs of globally leading universities

On November 27, the HSE University held its 18^th annual Golden HSE Award Ceremony in honour of colleagues who have demonstrated excellence in research or have contributed in a meaningful way to the HSE community. The special occasion coincided with the university’s 27^th anniversary.

Of the original 300 students enrolled in doctoral programmes set to graduate this year, only 126 reached the final stage of the process—the dissertation defence. While congratulating the recent class of graduates, HSE Vice Rector Vyacheslav Bashev noted that such a large attrition rate testifies to the seriousness of those who have made it to graduation. ‘Though many of you work, you continue to invest in yourselves intellectually,’ he said.

Russian Minister of Economic Development Maxim Oreshkin, who earned his Bachelor’s in economics in 2002 and his Master’s in economics in 2004 from HSE University, spoke to students of the Faculty of Economic Sciences about economic growth in Russia and what he learned at HSE University.

This year, 14 students and graduates of HSE's Faculty of Economic Sciences were admitted to PhD programmes at leading universities in the U.S. and Europe. Ten of them are undergraduates: