HSE Minecraft Helps Foster Virtual Community
HSE students came up with the idea of building HSE University’s Pokrovka Complex in Minecraft at the very beginning of the lockdown. In May, the opening ceremony was held, where HSE Rector delivered his welcome address, followed by lectures and a concert. HSE University now has a full-fledged virtual campus that brings HSE community closer together. Project organizer Olesya Yakovleva told HSE News Service more about the project.
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‘Vietnam and Russia Have a Lot of Common Values’
Tu Phan is a second-year student in HSE University’s Master’s programme in Strategic Corporate Finance. She is an international student with a lot of experience living abroad: besides Vietnam, she has lived (and studied) in Azerbaijan, Italy, and now Russia. Tu told us about her studies, how her life has changed since moving to Russia, what life is like in the dorms, and even how Russian and Vietnamese babushkas are similar!
Four Campuses and One Long-Awaited Headliner: HSE University-Wide Graduation to Be Held on July 3
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.
My Journey to HSE
Syeda Ulya Ehsen Kazmi, PrepYear alumna and soon-to-be Master's student of the Economics: Research Programme on what she learned from researching different universities, applying to HSE, and participating in the PrepYear programme.
HSE University Enters Top 50 of THE Young University Rankings
HSE University has taken 41st place, becoming the only Russian university on the Top 50 of the Times Higher Education Young University Rankings.
Prepare, Apply and Take it Seriously!
“For me, it is a great honor to have the opportunity to share my experience with the application process, and research and preparation experience”. Tingxi Tan, soon to-be-student of the Strategic Corporate Finance master program, about his recent admission to HSE University, after he invested time and effort into preparation to gain most from the program.
‘Tough Time Brings All of Us Closer Than Ever’
Thuy Tien Huynh from Vietnam is a second-year student in the Asian and African Studies Bachelor’s programme of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, majoring in Arabic. She enrolled at HSE University after winning an HSE Global Scholarship Competition in 2018. Thuy Tien Huynh has talked to HSE News Service about her choice of major, distance learning, and life in lockdown in Moscow.
‘If You Don’t Think About the Lost Opportunities, the Semester Hasn’t Been So Bad’
Student international academic mobility has been an integral part of life at HSE University for a long time. Every year, hundreds of HSE students study abroad at universities all over the world. Even now, during the pandemic, many of them did not come back to Russia, opting instead to continue their studies abroad. Students spoke with the HSE News Service about life in the university dorms during quarantine and taking their programme courses and exams online.
Amid Global Lockdown, International Student's Reflections on Study and Unusual Life
First year master's student Parisa Esmaeilkhani flew back home before the borders were closed for travel from Russia to find herself engaged in graduate classes via distance learning in a rather unusual setting