Practical training

General information

Practical training is a form of educational activity during studies under a given degree programme, with learners completing certain types of tasks, related to their future professional activities and aimed at building, consolidating, and developing practical skills and competencies specific to the respective degree programme. The goals and objectives of practical training shall be attained through the implementation of PTEs. The implementation of practical training for HSE students is provided in the module of the study plan of the educational programme, that is titled "Internship".

The procedure for organizing and conducting PTEs of HSE students is regulated by Regulations on Practical Training of Students under Core Bachelor’s, Specialist and Master’s Programmes at HSE University

You can also read about the organization of internship at the HSE in the academic handbook at the link

Conditions and features of the implementation of PTEs provided by the curriculum of the study plan of the educational programme "Master in International Business" are described in Internship Programme:

Internship Programme intake 2021

Internship Programme intake 2022

You can learn more about the preparation of Master's dissertation in the document "Guidelines for Master Dissertation" on the page "Final State Certification".

Practical training elements (PTEs):

For students of 2022 intake:

Year	PTE	Number of ECTS credits and academic hours	Period of realization
1	Term paper	5 (190 ac.h.)	Module 2-4
1,2	Project*	3 (114 ac.h.)	Variable, not later than module 3 of year 2
2	Internship in Obtaining Professional Skills and Professional Experience	12 (456 ac.h.)	Module 3
2	Master's dissertation (preparation)	17 (646 ac.h.)	During an academic year, defence in June Final version upload in mid May

For students of 2021 intake:

Year	PTE	Number of ECTS credits and academic hours	Period of realization
1	Term paper	5 (190 ac.h.)	Module 2-4
1,2	Project*	3 (114 ac.h.)	Variable, not later than module 3 of year 2
2	Science and research internship	5 (190 ac.h.)	Module 2
2	Internship in Obtaining Professional Skills and Professional Experience	9 (342 ac.h.)	Module 3
2	Master's dissertation (preparation)	18 (684 ac.h.)	During an academic year, defence in June Final version upload in mid May

*The mandatory project activity is 3 ECTS credits. If you take only one project that weighs more credits than required, it will be considered your mandatory project. All additional projects will be counted as optional (on top of the main programme of 120 ECTS).

Science and Research Internship (for intake 2021)

Internship period: 31 October - 25 November 2022

Internship in Obtaining Professional Skills and Professional Experience

Internship Period: 16 January - 11 March 2023

Internship Supervisor: Liudmila S. Veselova

Internship Placement

The placement must be approved by the internship supervisor.

These are the following ways to find an internship placement:

1. Get assistance from Career Development Centre. Each year the Career Development Centre forms a base of available internship placements provided by univesity partners. The Bank of Internship is offered on the platform Job Teaser. Once you have registered and attached your CV, you need to choose tag "Bank of internships".

2. Internship can be undertaken in laboratories and research centres of HSE University. In this case, you need to contact the heads of the respective structural units.

3. If you are employed and the field of the work meets the goals and objectives of the internship, you can do the internship at your work. In this case, it is necessary to provide an internship agreement with the organization

4. Find a placement yourself. In this case, you will need to provide an internship agreement with the organization to the study office before starting an internship.

Internship Agreement

Before the beginnig of an internship, it is necessary to sign an agreement, unless an agreement already exists. If the student is doing internships through the Career Development Centre, partner company or at the HSE structural unit, no additional agreement is required. In other cases an argeement must be finalized and verified via the help of internship supervisor.
Agreement template in Russian: Договор разовый (РУС) СПб ШЭМ (DOCX, 41 Кб)

Agreement template in English: Agreement for Practical Training of Students (DOCX, 42 Кб)

In case a compnay declines to sign a standard agreement, we can make an offer via letter:

Письмо оферта - акцепт разовый (РУС) СПб ШЭМ (DOCX, 38 Кб)

Offer Letter - Acceptance Letter (DOCX, 45 Кб)

Internship Guidelines

GUIDELINES FOR PASSING AND REPORTING ON PRACTICE IN OBTAINING PROFESSIONAL SKILLS AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 22/23

Internship Reporting

1. Students draw up an individual assignment for the internship and the schedule of internship together with the internship supervisor from the university before the start of an internship. Depending on the placement, these documents can be provided both in Russian and English. They are refined during the internship if needed and signed by internship supervisors from HSE and the company not later than 2 weeks before the defence. Individual task and a internship schedule are presented together with the internship report on the day of defence. If students fail to provide these documents with all the required signatures, they will be denied admission to the defense.

2. After the end of the internship, internship supervisor from the company writes a review. The review can be provided in both Russian and English.

3. During the internship, students write a report. The report must be completed in English.

All reporting documents must be provided 2 weeks before the planned defence or before the deadline for providing documents.

Templates of reporting documents (DOCX, 33 Кб)

Internship Defence

Internship defence is held with the board during the exam period of the respective module when the internship is undertaken.
Students who do not complete the internship programme without a valid reason or who have received an unsatisfactory grade are considered to have academic failure.

Master’s Programme 'International Business in the Asia-Pacific Region'