Master's Programmes

Master’s programmes at the Graduate School of Education (GSE) are designed to give working professionals a chance to update and enrich their knowledge and expertise as best relevant to one's background and area of service.

Studying at GSE means learning from the best. Partnerships with HSE’s other departments, as well as with renowned overseas universities, help create a vibrant, information-rich environment enabling students to unleash their full creative potential by getting immersed into transdisciplinary academic discourse.

Our programmes comply with the latest international standards and requirements, ensuring GSE Master’s students graduate as advanced professionals and visionary leaders, building on unrivalled skills and systems thinking.

Type and Duration 

We offer full-time as well as part-time MA programmes that combine traditional in-class and distance learning. 

A degree normally takes 2–2.5 years to complete.  

Tracks

The track for teaching professionals gives insights into the latest methodology and syllabus developments in the following areas:

• Modern Approaches to Teaching History

• Modern Approaches to Teaching Social and Political Sciences
  
  Format: Part-time, 2.5 years
  Director: Igor Orlov, iOrlov@hse.ru
  Partners: HSE’s Business Communications Research Lab, HSE’s Department of Social Sciences, Moscow Centre for Crisis Society Research

• Modern Approaches to Teaching Language Arts

The track for education administrators focuses on up-to-date theory and practice in organizational and academic management:

• Educational Administration

• University Management

• Digital Transformation in Education

Designed to best cater for the needs of practitioners, researchers, and administration professionals, this full-time track comprises four MA courses of study each affording a unique opportunity to gain comprehensive and in-depth insights into a given specialist area by completing innovative curricular that feature the latest relevant concepts and applied best practices: 

• Evidence-based Educational Policy

• Measurements in Psychology and Education