State Final Certification
Final State Certification Info-2024:
State Exam Committee for the Final State Certification (Programme 'Data Analytics for State and Society'):
State Examination Board (DOCX, 18 Kb)
Head of the State Exam Committee for the Final State Certification (Programme 'Data Analytics for State and Society'):
Ivanov Dmitrii V., Doctor of Sociology, Professor of the Department of Theory and History of Sociology, Faculty of Sociology, St. Petersburg State University.
Final State Certification Schedule:
Defenses schedule (DOCX, 18 Kb)
Faculty Appeal Committee for the Final State Certification:
Committee members:
- Dr. Mariia V. Rubtсova, Doctor of Sciences, Professor, Department of Public Administration, St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences
- Dr. Dmitry Goncharov, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and International Affairs,St. Petersburg School of Social
- Natalia V. Kolesnik, Candidate of Sciences, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology,St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences
Secretary – Nadezhda E. Oreshenkova, the Head, Undergraduate Programmes Curriculum Support (Public Administration), St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences
Documents:
- Regulations For State Final Certification Organization
- Procedure for Appealing the Results of State Final Certifications
- Regulations on Checking Student Papers for Plagiarism and the Publication of Bachelor’s, Specialist and Master’s Theses on the HSE Corporate Website
Final State Certification Programme-2024:
Guidelines for pre-defence of theses for students of the programme (PDF, 279 Kb)
Guideline - Master thesis DAPS (PDF, 340 Kb)
How to apply for a Term paper/Thesis topic:
Please note that the Term Papers and Theses topics approval has been moved to the LMS system since this academic year! You need to talk about your topic with the supervisor and then make a topic request via LMS Course Themes Module.
Please do not forget that your request shall be approved by your Supevisor via his/her LMS account.
How to change the Term Paper/Thesis topic:
Please note that the Term Papers and Theses topics change requests has been moved to the LMS system sine this academic year! You need to talk about your topic with the supervisor and then make a topic request via LMS Course Themes Module.
Please do not forget that your request shall be approved by your Supevisor via his/her LMS account.
Thesis Request Forms:
Thesis Deadlines 2023/2024:
| Module | Deadline | Event |
| 2nd module | November 1 | Deadline for Theses Topics Applications via LMS system |
| November 8 | Subject of MA Thesis and supervisor approved by the Academic Supervisor | |
| December 1 | Subject of MA Thesis and supervisor approved by the Academic Council of MA Programme | |
| December 15 | Deadline for the submission of the Master Thesis proposal to the scientific supervisor | |
| 3-rd module | February 12 | Deadline for the submission of the extended project proposal to the academic supervisor |
| February 19 | Defense of the Project Proposal within research seminar | |
| 4th module | April 3, 18.00 | External Reviewer Appointment |
| April 10, 18.00 | Deadline for submission the first version of thesis for the Preliminary defense | |
| April 12 | Preliminary defense of MA Thesis | |
| April 22, 18.00 | Deadline for submission a request for changes in the title / supervisor change of the master thesis | |
| April 29 | Deadline for the submission of the final version of the Master thesis text to the supervisor | |
| May 15, 18.00 | Final draft of MA Thesis submission to LMS system | |
| May 22 | Deadline for placing the Theses' Supervisors' Reviews | |
| May 26 | Deadline for placing the Theses' and External Reviewers' Reviews | |
| May 31 | Deadline for Thesis Printed Version Submission (to the Office) | |
| June 6 | Defense of MA Thesis |