Education

Cooperation was successful: our master's students are the winners of the Setl Group case championship!
The team "CASE ME HARDER," consisting of first-year Master's students — Vsevolod Nikolaev, Ivan Rogov, Alisa Belkova, and Viktoriia Mitropolskaia — won the case championship "Cooperation with the Corporation," organized by HSE in collaboration with Setl Group.
Business Radar: developing professional competences
On September 30, 2024, the first-year students of the Master’s program in Finance participated in an exciting business game that showcased various aspects of the financial world. Organized by the head of the Department of Finance, Professor Varvara Nazarova, and Professor Iya Churakova, the event aimed to introduce students to the diverse roles within finance, preparing them for future career paths.

Master's Programme 'Finance' at HSE University-St Petersburg Confirms International ACCA Accreditation
The master's programme 'Finance' at HSE University-St Petersburg has confirmed its international accreditation of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) for five years. Now, the programme graduates can skip several exams when joining ACCA. The qualification gives the alumni a competitive advantage when seeking employment in top Russian and international companies for positions related to finance and accounting.

Master's programme "Finance" confirmed ACCA accreditation
The Master's programme "Finance" (direction 38.04.08 "Finance and Credit") has successfully confirmed accreditation by ACCA for the next 5 years.

HSE University Expands Academic Cooperation with Indian Universities
HSE University will develop academic cooperation with Indian universities. This is what the delegation of HSE University-St Petersburg headed by Anna Tyshetskaya, Campus Director, agreed on with several leading universities in India: the University of Delhi, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Delhi) and Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU).
HSE University-St Petersburg and Indian Institute of Management Indore Agree to Create Mirror Laboratory in the Sphere of Social and Environmental Responsibility
During a visit to the Indian Institute of Management Indore (IIM Indore) by a HSE University-St Petersburg delegation led by campus Director Anna Tyshetskaya, the two universities agreed to create a mirror laboratory in the sphere of environmental behaviour, social well-being, and responsibility management.

How masters save companies
Two months of hard teamwork by master's students successfully concluded in June

Students of MP “Finance” won the CFA Russia Challenge national economic competition
The School of Economics and Management team won the CFA Russia Challenge, a nation-wide student competition on investment analysis of companies. The team's mentor, Vladislav Afanasiev, graduated from MP “Finance” in 2020. The students were tasked with carrying out Equity Research - a company analysis on the basis of which investors make strategic decisions about forming an investment portfolio.
Guest lecture: "Creation a Project Management Risk System in Oil and Gas industry"
On 5 June, the Mentor Workshop course included a fascinating lecture on "Creation a Project Management Risk System in Oil and Gas industry" presented by Pavel Kisilev, Head of Project Evaluation and Analysis Department of OOO GAZPROMNEFT SRC, and Andrey Bondarenko, Head of direction.
Students of MP "Finance" have learned how to classify risks; they have got acquainted with methods of identification, an estimation and ranging of risks on an example of the oil and gas extraction, oil service enterprises; they have learned to reveal and estimate technological, organizational and ecological risks in oil industry.

Project Defense of 2nd year Master Students
On March 28 there was a project defense within the module "Project Work". Practical solutions were developed for the companies: Sveza (world leader in the production of birch plywood) and Association GAOORDI (St. Petersburg Association of Public Associations of Parents of Disabled Children "GAOORDI").

