State Final Certification
Final State Certification Info-2024:
- Final State Certification Schedule and Students' Distribution:
Defenses Schedule (DOCX, 16 Kb)
- State Exam Committee for the Final State Certification (Programme 'Comparative Politics of Eurasia'):
State Examination Board (DOCX, 18 Kb)
- Head of the State Exam Committee for the Final State Certification (Programme 'Comparative Politics of Eurasia'):
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TBA in May, 2024
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- Chairperson – Polina E. Yakovleva, senior lecturer, Department of Public Administration
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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
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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 preparation and defense of theses fro students of the programme 'Comparative Politics of Eurasia' (DOCX, 209 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 2024/2025:
| Module | Deadline | Event |
| 2nd module | November 25 | Subject of MA Thesis and supervisor approved by the Academic Council of MA Programme |
| November 26- December 1 | Deadline for Theses Topics Applications via LMS system | |
| 4th module | March 21, 23:59 | Deadline for submission the first version of thesis for the Preliminary defense |
| March 31 - April 3 | Preliminary defense of MA Thesis with the HSE internal committee of professors | |
| April 14, 18.00 | Deadline for submission a request for changes in the title / supervisor change of the master thesis via LMS, submission of external reviewers data | |
| May 15, 19.59 | Final draft of MA Thesis submission to LMS system | |
| May 26, 18:00 | Deadline for placing the Theses' Supervisors' Reviews | |
| May 26, 18:00 | Deadline for placing the Theses' and External Reviewers' Reviews | |
| June 4-6 | Defense of MA Thesis |
Previous Years Final State Certifications:
FINAL STATE CERTIFICATION PROGRAMME-2023:
Guideline MA Thesis 2023 (PDF, 308 Kb)
State exam Committee (DOCX, 19 Kb)
Defenses Schedule (DOCX, 16 Kb)
FINAL STATE CERTIFICATION PROGRAMME-2022:
Appeal Committee (DOCX, 24 Kb)
Guideline MA Thesis 2022 (PDF, 324 Kb)
State Exam Committee (DOCX, 19 Kb)
Defenses Schedule (DOCX, 15 Kb)
Final State Certification Programme-2020:
Final State Certification-2020 Info:
- Due to the remote form of State Final Certification in 2020, Special Temporal Rules (see below) were implemented.
- Temporal Rules For State Final Certification Organization (in Russian)
- State Examination Committee members
- Exam Schedule and Students' Distribution
- Appeal Committee Members