Consistently ranked as one of Russia's top universities, the Higher School of Economics is a Russian education leader and one of the preeminent economics and social sciences universities in eastern Europe and Eurasia. Having rapidly grown into a well-renowned research university over two decades, HSE sets itself apart with its international presence and cooperation.
Our faculty, researchers, and students represent over 50 countries and are dedicated to maintaining the highest academic standards. Our newly-adopted structural reforms support HSE's drive to internationalize and ground our faculty, researchers, and students. Now a dynamic university with four campuses, HSE is a leader in combining Russian education traditions with the best international teaching and research practices. HSE offers outstanding educational programs from secondary school to doctoral studies, with top departments and research centers in several international fields. Since 2013, HSE has been a member of the 5-100 Russian Academic Excellence Project, a highly selective government program aimed at boosting Russian universities' international competitiveness.
The Higher School of Economics is a research university that carries out its mission through academic, programming, peer review, and sociocultural work based on international academic and organizational standards. We perceive ourselves as a part of the global academic community and believe that international partnership and engagement in global university cooperation are the key elements of our movement forward. As a Russian university, we work for the welfare of Russia and its citizens. The basis of our work is theoretical and empirical research and the dissemination of knowledge. Without compromising the quality of research and not being limited to teaching fundamental disciplines, we seek to make a practical contribution to the building of a new Russia.
Our university is a community of faculty, staff members, graduate and undergraduate students distinguished by their deep commitment to supporting high academic standards in their work. We seek to guarantee that each member of our community has the most favorable conditions to develop. Though at times we take different positions on a variety of historical and contemporary issues, we are united by the following shared values: striving for truth
- Collaboration and commitment to one another
- Honesty and openness
- Academic freedom and political neutrality
- Professionalism, self-discipline, and accountability
- Public engagement
We believe in the existence of objective truth, and, as scholars, we do everything possible so that our academic work serves its comprehension. Our lectures and textbooks reflect cutting-edge academic research. Our academic articles, student papers, models, and experiments seek to expand contemporary academic inquiry horizons.
We are open to participation in discussions and review of academic work. We welcome clarification, consultation, and peer review requests, leading to the convergence of positions on problems relevant to Russian and global development. As teachers, we seek to awaken our students' interest in our subjects, help those who experience difficulty, and support talented and hardworking students. As undergraduate and graduate students, we try to learn from our professors, help one another, and set an example for the young. We seek to be full-fledged citizens and members of our university community.
We do not tolerate any deceit, corruption, double standards, or any form of discrimination. Our undergraduate and graduate students take a genuine interest in studying and accumulating knowledge and therefore do not accept cheating, plagiarism, or having others do their work for them. Our scholars follow academic ethical norms and do everything possible to prevent their violation in our university. They serve as an example for students.
Our teachers strive for maximum objectivity when evaluating our students' knowledge based on an open and transparent system of criteria. They strive for equivalent evaluation of students with an equivalent level of training, and they seek to establish equal conditions for all levels of knowledge assessment. As a university in general, we seek to ensure open and public access to information on all aspects of our work.
We welcome the free exchange of opinions and ideas based on strict academic rigor, mutual respect, and partnership. We respect each member of our community's opinion and believe that the right to state one's point of view is inviolable. In academic research, this means that imposing the academic approaches and standards of a specific school of thought in the university is unacceptable. In the area of peer endorsement and empirical analysis of social and economic processes, the university is free from political and ideological dogmas.
The university does not restrict employees and students from forming and expressing personal political opinions. However, any political discussions taking place within the university walls are to be investigative and impartial, as well as based on the search for substantive arguments. International academic standards guide us in conducting research and global professional standards in our work's functional areas.
We strive to be as strict and critical as possible in cases where no corresponding international standards can be applied. Self-discipline is the basis of our everyday work. We aim to improve our performance continuously, whether it concerns our educational, academic, or peer review work. We accept responsibility for all aspects of our work – for the level of our graduates' preparation, the quality of research conducted and results achieved, and the justifiability and balance of our peer review findings, our students' papers, and graduation theses.
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