ICEF’s MSc programme hosted the official welcome to its incoming class, where the students met with faculty and community leaders and were able to talk in a casual setting.
ICEF’s MSc Financial Economics gathered its incoming class for orientation session on September 4.
Opening the session was Maxim Nikitin, MSc Financial Economics Academic Supervisor. Referring to the two upcoming years as an exciting journey, Prof. Nikitin advised the new class to stay committed to their studies and to just enjoy their college experience.
Prof. Nikitin further outlined the courses, training modules, sessions, and examinations to be taken: “You’ll have to really apply yourself. With a rigorous curriculum, it isn’t easy to be a student here. Prepare to have lots of lectures and homework. Take your home assignments seriously, they really have to be sweated through and will require your teamwork skills.”
While being intensely focused on hard skills, MSc Financial Economics places sufficient focus on soft skills, particularly, problem solving and task setting. Some of its soft skills courses have been developed in cooperation with the major players in the industry.
Prof. Nikitin promised it to the new class that they will learn how to challenge themselves to develop their abilities. He detailed how students will be able to benefit from their knowledge as job seekers and how the brand of ICEF is perceived by the employers: “Your degree from ICEF on your resume is an indication to employers you will be an asset to the company.”
Prof. Nikitin then spoke about the seminars to be attended by the students – the ICEF Research Seminars and mentoring sessions. He also advised the newly enrolled students to make the most of opportunities available from ICEF Career Services as they prepare to enter the job market. The new class were then given details of exchange and academic mobility opportunities.
At the end of the meeting, the students were able to clarify remaining questions and conversed informally with one another.
MSc Financial Economics 2023 enrollment stands at 42.
Our newly enrolled students are natives of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Leningrad, Tomsk, Kurgan, Novosibirsk, Ulyanovsk, Penza, Irkutsk, Samara, Nizhny Novgorod, Tula, Perm, Altai Territory, Republic of Tatarstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, China, Ghana, Morocco, Syria, Peru. The majority of the incoming class are graduates of HSE, while the rest hold their bachelor’s from Moscow State University, St. Petersburg State University, Financial University, RANEPA, as well as from schools in the UK, Turkey, China, Peru, Syria, Uzbekistan, Ghana, and Morocco.
