On August 21st, Saint Petersburg HSE Summer School, which has been taking place since 2017, came to a close. This year it moved online due to the pandemic. 44 participants from 18 countries, including France, Ireland, the USA, the Philippines, China, and others were joining Zoom classes for 3 weeks. The Summer School was also happy to host students of 15 HSE partner universities such as Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, King’s College London, Sciences Po Lyon, University of Basel, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, and others

The HSE Global Scholarship Competition – 2021 will be held on January 21-26, 2021

Academic mobility is not just about studies but also about travellings, practising a language, and making new friends. The Editorial Office of the portal asked HSE students to tell about their exchange experiences so that you can learn more about international mobility. In this material, they tell how to study languages in China, what useful a law-student take from studying in Italy, and how possible it is to have an internship in the Czech Republic.

The academic year is gradually gaining momentum, and textbooks, along with academic papers, are becoming a part of bedtime reading. If you would like to read something different and useful, read the reading list by Yuri Kabanov, co-head of the programme 'Political Science and World Politics'. There you will find books about statistics and cats, a collection of short stories-assumptions, and others.

This year, HSE University has maintained its position in the 251-300 range in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. The University ranks among the top 3 Russian universities along with Moscow State University (which ranks 174th) and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (which ranks in the 201-250 range). In the THE’s global ranking of the best universities for research, HSE ranks 199th.

Admissions to the programme 'Comparative Russian and Eurasian Politics' starts in 2021. Students will study at University College London and HSE University - Saint Petersburg. Upon completion, students will obtain a double degree diploma. The programme is of interest of those who want to study Russian and post-Soviet space, be prepared for PhD programmes, and get expert knowledge about the region.