Yuliana Loginova is in her second year of ICEF MSc Financial Economics programme and is currently receiving training at LUISS University in Rome as a double-degree student. In 2023, Yuliana received the Vladimir Potanin scholarship. In this interview, Yuliana tells about her experience of choosing a master’s and what she thinks about 'Italian mindset'.
Professor Sergey Tsyplakov of University of South Carolina Moore School of Business (USA) has recently hosted the ICEF student research seminar and met with college faculty. Professor Tsyplakov also contributed to HSE Аpril Conference and did a talk about federal intervention strategies that helps banks to avoid bankruptcy.
Student clubs and activities have been a tradition with all major universities. Designed to facilitate self-governance, charity and career awareness, they have an important social mission and are joined based on interest. But whatever their purpose, they offer their members ways to unfold their potential as contributors to common cause, giving skills to put on a resume. Here are the endeavors ICEF students unite for and how they work.
As it gets increasingly difficult to succeed in today’s job market with qualifications solely in one field, more and more HSE grads are tapping into the tech industry. Timur Zekokh, who did his bachelor’s at HSE Faculty of Economic Sciences and his master’s at HSE ICEF, has fulfilled himself in the IT field as a senior data analyst at Avito. Here’s how Timur started teaching out of love for econometrics, what essential knowledge is required to start working with data, and what made Avito switch from Excel to Vertica.
Grigory Zhirnov earned his master’s from ICEF in 2020 and is currently pursuing PhD studies. Grigory combines his research at HSE Laboratory for Macro-Structural Modeling of the Russian Economy with the job as chief economist at VTB Capital Asset Management. In this interview, Grigory talks about creating a match between job and academic studies, why early career scientists find HSE a great place to be, and what scientific explorations are maintained in banks.
Alongside with the core curriculum, ICEF offers a wide array of electives allowing students to learn programming, data management and much more. Here’s Natalia Arkhipova, BSc Programme Coordinator, about the courses available at ICEF as electives, language learning opportunities, and currently most popular student choice.
With many companies, February is the starting month of the recruiting season and the time for the prospective candidates to meet employers and show talent at career events. Vera Potekhina is in her third year of bachelor's degree at ICEF and has joined several case competitions and projects over the past month. Here’s Vera’s experience of solving companies’ real-life challenges and how connecting with employers can prompt the right career choice.
The Econometrics Universiade 2023 has summed up the results of its first stage. Among those who have successfully completed it are many ICEF students, as usual. Twenty-six of them are 3- and 4-year undergraduates and have scored more than half of the points required to proceed to final stage, the latter scheduled for April 8 and will, for the first time since 2019, be held in-person. Since this year, Econometrics Universiade classifies as competition on the Lomonosov list.
In addition to the core curriculum, ICEF offers a wide array of electives allowing students to learn programming, data management and much more. Students are welcome to join on-campus activities or contribute to project work. Here’s how ICEF students customize their learning process, upgrade their skills as researchers or project team members, and join student life by assuming, for example, roles as tutors.
