Higher School of Economics
55°45′41.4″N 37°37′59.7″E / 55.761500°N 37.633250°E
Национальный исследовательский университет «Высшая школа экономики» | |
| Motto | |
|---|---|
Motto in English | "Not for the school but for life we study" |
| Type | Public |
| Established | 1992 |
| Affiliation | National Research University Project 5-100 |
Academic affiliation | BRICS Universities League EUA UNICA |
| Endowment | ₽1 093.83 million (US$14.8 million) (as of 31 December 2020) |
| President | Alexander Shokhin |
| Vice-president | Igor Agamirzian |
| Rector | Nikita Anissimov |
Academic staff | c. 7,000 |
Administrative staff | 1,870 |
| Students | above 52 000 |
| Postgraduates | 489 |
| 724 | |
| Location | , Russia |
| Campus | Urban |
| Academic term | Quarter |
| Colors | Diamond blue and silver grey |
| Mascot | Crow |
| Website | www |
| University rankings | |
|---|---|
| Global – Overall | |
| ARWU World | 701–800 (2023) |
| QS World | 399 (2024) |
| THE World | 401–500 (2024) |
| USNWR Global | =561 (2023) |
HSE University (Russian: «Высшая школа экономики», ВШЭ), officially the National Research University Higher School of Economics (Russian: Национальный исследовательский университет «Высшая школа экономики») is a public research university founded in 1992 and headquartered in Moscow, Russia. Along with its main campus located in the capital, the university maintains three other regional campuses in Nizhny Novgorod, Perm and Saint Petersburg. It also has an online campus. There is also the Lyceum at HSE University in Moscow.
HSE was the first educational institution in Russia to successfully introduce Bachelor's and Master's degrees, having also taken part in the development and implementation of the Unified State Exam to modernize education and health care systems of Russia.
HSE offers education at all levels – from a lyceum for school students to post-graduate and MBA programmes. Students can pursue training in a number of fields, including the social sciences, economics, humanities, law, engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and biotechnology, as well as in creative disciplines. Furthermore, university representatives are part of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation and the Expert Council under the Government of Russia.