Higher School of Economics

HSE University

Национальный исследовательский университет «Высшая школа экономики»
Motto	Non scholae, sed vitae discimus
Motto in English	"Not for the school but for life we study"
Type	Public
Established	1992 (1992)
Affiliation	National Research University [ru; de; tt; uk] Project 5-100
Academic affiliation	BRICS Universities League EUA UNICA
Endowment	₽1 093.83 million (US$14.8 million) (as of 31 December 2020)[1]
President	Alexander Shokhin
Vice-president	Igor Agamirzian [ru]
Rector	Nikita Anissimov [ru]
Academic staff	c. 7,000[2]
Administrative staff	1,870[2]
Students	above 52 000[3]
Postgraduates	489[4]
Doctoral students	724[2]
Location	Moscow (subsidiary campuses in Saint-Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod and Perm) , Russia
Campus	Urban
Academic term	Quarter
Colors	Diamond blue and silver grey[5]
Mascot	Crow
Website	www.hse.ru/en

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.^[10] There is also the Lyceum at HSE University in Moscow.

Widely regarded among the most prestigious universities in Russia and the CIS,^[11][12] it acquired the status of "national research university" in 2009. 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.

Starting from 2013, HSE University has also participated in the Project 5-100 (the project was initiated by the Ministry of Education and Science to promote at least five Russian universities to the top 100 universities according to Times Higher Education World University Rankings, QS World University Rankings, and Academic Ranking of World Universities^[13]). In 2022 it was ranked #568 in Best Global Universities by U.S. News & World Report, and #881 by Center for World University Rankings, and in 2020 it was ranked in the #801-900 group in the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), also known as the Shanghai Ranking.^[14][15][16]

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. HSE is the only university in Russia that is ranked in top 100 of the Times Higher Education Young University Rankings.^[17] Furthermore, university representatives are part of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation and the Expert Council under the Government of Russia.