Tag «ideas & experience»

Anna Shmeleva, third-year student at the HSE Faculty of Economic Sciences, has spent a semester as an exchange student at Sabancı University in Istanbul, Turkey. In her interview, she shares her impressions and some useful tips for future exchange students.

Every year, HSE University welcomes more than a thousand students from all over the world. In 2024, Junseo Lee, a student from South Korea, came to HSE University-St Petersburg as a master’s student of the programme ‘Comparative Politics of Eurasia’. In the article, Junseo shares the story of why he chose St Petersburg and HSE University in particular and his personal experience of living and studying in Russia as a foreign student.

Yan Minghao, from China, is in his second year of master’s study at ICEF HSE and has a passion for mathematics and Russian culture. In this interview, he shares the experience of being an ICEF student, contributing to international research venues, and travelling around Russia.

Tianxiong Yu, 25, completed his Master’s in Economics and Economic Policy at HSE University in Moscow. He spent the second year of the programme at the University of Luxembourg and has since enrolled there on a doctoral programme. While it is no longer a joint programme, HSE graduates continue to successfully pursue PhDs at international universities. Tianxiong spoke to the HSE News Service about his memories of his master’s course and how his time at HSE paved the way for his doctoral research.

Onoja Abah Monday, 28, from Lagos, Nigeria, is currently pursuing his master's degree in the Science of Learning and Assessment (SOLA) programme at the HSE Institute of Education. He spoke to the HSE News Service about why he chose HSE University, his fascination with Russian language and culture, and his future plans to contribute to the development of his home country.

Anastasia Sherubneva's research focuses on spatial economics, and she is currently writing a dissertation on the crises of 2020 and 2022. In this interview with the HSE Young Scientists project, she discusses the impact of agglomeration effects on enterprises, her home neighbourhood of Akademgorodok in Novosibirsk, and her experience meeting Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman in Portugal.

In high school, Mikhail Shishkin used to dismiss probability theory as mere speculation, but today he applies it to solving problems in population genetics. In this interview with the HSE Young Scientists project, he discusses what a modern person's genome can reveal about the past, the question he would pose to the author of Fermat's Great Theorem, and The Ashley Book of Knots.

How does one end up at United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) as an exchange student? Are classes at UAEU really single-sex? What is there to do at the weekend? ICEF student Ulyana Kobylkina and FES Economics and Data Science student Nika Prokudina share their experiences of their recent exchange.