1547
International students have been enrolled in HSE undergraduate and graduate programmes this academic year. About 800 people will study on Russian government scholarships while the rest will pay tuition fees. Compared to last year, the number of international students among first-year fee-paying students has increased by about 80%.
2nd Place
Second-year student in the HSE/NES Programme in Economics, Maksim Vavulin, placed second in the FIDE World Youth Under 18 Chess Championship. The championship took place in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia from September 21st through October 5th.
55
students of the Faculty of Economic Sciences will be studying abroad during the fall 2016. It is almost twice as much as spent their semester abroad in the fall of 2015.
266
certificates of attendance were awarded at the seminar series on Public Speaking by Kosmas Marinakis. The new Public Speaking event by HSE took place at Shabolovka 26