Moscow Campus - Faculty of Economic Sciences at HSE University

Founded in 1992, the HSE Faculty of Economics is the university’s oldest faculty. In the years since it was founded, it has gained a reputation as Russia’s leader in terms of higher economic education.

A fundamental education in modern economic theory and mathematics is combined with the study of applied disciplines, such as taxation, budget policies and processes, financial management and other related fields. The Faculty’s diverse educational programs provide students with a firm background in the theoretical and instrumental fundamentals of economics and allows them to pursue an individualized educational trajectory that suits their preferences, goals, and interests.

International students of the Faculty have the opportunity to study and live alongside students from all corners of the world, allowing them to create a lifelong global network that will prove essential for their future careers. 

The laboratory’s research areas include: economic mechanism design, models of choice for a large number of alternatives, power distribution in groups, application of game theory and social choice theory methods to the modelling of coalitional preferences, aggregation models on majority graph, criteria importance theory and the theory of additive utility functions, stability of optimal representation of objects and images, measures of informativeness defined by the set of attributes of non-deterministic systems, Intelligent data analysis, manipulation in social choice models, models of fair division, mathematical models of the organization of public-private partnerships, etc.

Prominent employers, including both Russian and multinational companies, are integrated directly into the Faculty of Economic Science’s activities. Many of these companies have constant representation within the Faculty, including Ernst & Young, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and KPMG. Specialists and practitioners representing leading employers play an important and direct role in the Faculty’s teaching activities.