Professor Sergey Stepanov: "FES programs combine strong training in math and up-to-date economic theory. In addition, we pay a lot of attention to ensuring that our students get excellent training in working with data. So, we have such courses as statistics, econometrics, machine learning, etc.

Our curriculums are pretty much like those in top US and European schools. All textbooks are in English, and some courses are taught entirely in English

Our programs are very challenging, which ensures that our graduates are very competitive in the market, both in academia and in the industry. All our graduates are well placed, get jobs in leading companies, go for PhD in top schools

Finally, programs at FES provide a lot of flexibility in designing your own curriculum. Starting from the 2nd year, students can take courses from other programs, and not necessarily from the economics ones. For example, our students regularly take various courses in computer science, programming, machine learning from the Faculty of CS.