International College of Economics and Finance

"My Soul Belonged to ICEF, I Decided to Get into It Against All Odds"

Polina Bobyleva is in her first year of bachelor's study and attended ICEF Evening School as part of her personal goal to enter ICEF. Here’s how Polina made her choice, who to turn to for assistance within ICEF, and how translating Russian jokes makes learning English fun at ICEF.

February 13, 2023

Networking, Jobs, Business Experience: Why ICEF Students Join Case Competitions

The students of ICEF are regular participants and prize-winners in contests that prepare them for their future jobs. These contests take the form of case competitions, allowing students to demonstrate teamwork skills, problem-solving skills, ability to delegate, debate and present. Here’s how case competitions can be beneficial to students.

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December 08, 2022

Welcome to Hogwarts of Finance: ICEF Held Master’s Students Initiation Ceremony

The students, lecturers and office of the MSc Financial Economics got together for the Welcome Pizza Day, an opportunity to talk informally that involved absorbing presentations and revealed exciting things about each other’s personalities.

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November 23, 2022

LSE ranked second in the world - and top in Europe- in social science and management 2019

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March 15, 2019

ICEF Graduates Win Awards for Best Thesis Projects

The results are in for the Competition of the Best Thesis Projects, held by the Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy for the graduates of economics faculties.

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December 26, 2018

‘At ICEF, I got the knowledge necessary for working in finance, while also making some enthusiastic friends’

This past summer, Srdan Todorovic successfully defended his Master’s thesis and graduated from ICEF’s Financial Economics programme. He now works in VTB Bank’s retail operations and is considering further graduate studies at HSE. In this interview, he talks about his favourite courses and teachers, what he got out of the Master’s programme, and how learning in Russia differs from Serbian education.

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December 10, 2018

HSE among the World’s Top 200 Most International Universities

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March 20, 2018

“At ICEF there’s enough room to be creative”

Andrei Kostylev graduated from the ICEF Master’s Programme in 2012, and is now a Senior Manager in the Strategic Direction department at the state corporation Rosatom. On Saturdays, Andrei leads a course in Business Negotiation and workshops on ‘The Foundations of Banking and Finance” for ICEF students. Andrei told us a little about his studies and career.

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October 04, 2016

Interview with ICEF Graduates key employers - A.T. Kearney

ICEF Career Centre is actively working with a number of leading consulting firms - ICEF Graduates key employers. In addition to career events they organize on campus, these firms also participate in various ICEF initiatives. We are grateful to those of them giving us feedback and answering questions, which are of interest to our students and recent graduates. We have formulated key questions and asked partners from some of the leading consulting firms to answer them.This week we are publishing the response to questionnaire by an A.T. Kearney partner – Boris Poretsky. More - to come.

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January 13, 2016

Interview with ICEF director for Interfax

Director of the International College of Economics and Finance Sergey Yakovlev has talked to Interfax about how Russian universities can improve their international competitiveness, find partners in Europe and the United States, launch their graduates into the global marketplace, and find the ideal balance between their Russian roots and international educational trends.

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May 22, 2015

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