HSE University - St. Petersburg - School of International Studies

  1st year UniTrento students of the master's degree course in:

• European and International Studies

with a B2 English level
These requirements will be assessed when applying for the UniTrento call which is published every year. 

Please note that complete information and updates are to be checked on UniTrento call for applications and on the partner website. 

HSE University leads the list of the TOP-100 Best Russian Universities 2020 according to the Forbes Ranking in Quality Assurance of Education & Alumni and University Prestige. HSE has 4 campuses including that of St. Petersburg. HSE University leads the list of the TOP-100 Best Russian Universities 2020 according to the Forbes Ranking in Quality Assurance of Education & Alumni and University Prestige. HSE has 4 campuses including that of St. Petersburg. 
The School of Social Sciences and Area Studies offers students the most modern skills on socio-economic and political development of Russia and other nations and societies, bringing together academics from 4 Departments (Asian and African Studies, Public Administration, Political Science and Sociology) and 6 Research centers alternating courses with different formats with contemporary research methods and applied projects.

In Italy and abroad, a double degree is always an added value. Not only the experts say it, you just have to browse through the job offers to realize that companies and organizations are looking for international and open-minded profiles, able to work in multicultural teams and to face ever new global challenges: these are the workers of the future.

The Master's Program in Comparative Politics of Eurasia was created in response to the growing strategic importance of the wider Eurasian region.
The programme curriculum is built around core conceptual training in comparative political science and comprehensive empirical training in contemporary methods of social science research.

• have obtained 50 credits at least of the study plan
• further assessment might be done by HSE at the moment of the application
• documents needed: picture, identity document and bachelor’s degree, Transcript of Records.
  Bachelor degree certificate and identity document are submitted with its notarized translation into Russian.

Visa and health insurance coverage are mandatory. All the above procedures and expenses are in charge of the student.
The requisites will be checked just before the mobility, between July and August.

1 or 2 semesters (30 or 60 credits)

The study plan must be agreed and approved in advance by both academic supervisors.
A template is available in the downloads. 

Courses are in English.

The conversion takes place on the basis of the conversion table available in the downloads.

The thesis can be discussed either at UniTrento or at HSE under the supervision of one professor from each unievrsity. The discussion must take place in a unique joint session in late June/early July. The language of the thesis work and discussion is English. More details in the section More.

Students participating in the double degree program pay the tuition fees exclusively at UniTrento.

At the end of the double degree course, students obtain two separate second cycle degree diplomas: