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 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
Directors: Konstantin Polivanov, kot-poli@mtu-net.ru; Evgenya Abelyuk, eabelyuk@hse.ru
Partners: HSE’s Department of Philology
The track for education administrators focuses on up-to-date theory and practice in organizational and academic management:
Director: Anatoly Kasprzhak, agkasprzhak@hse.ru
Partners: Institute of Pedagogy and Developmental Psychology, Russian Academy of Sciences; Russia’s leading academic journals on school administration
Director: Kirill Zinkovsky, kzinkovsky@hse.ru
Partners: University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA), Maastricht University (Netherlands), Pratt Institute (USA), University of Helsinki (Finland), Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium)
Director: Lada Smirnova, losmirnova@hse.ru
Partners: Yandex, Microsoft
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:
Partners: Russian Ministry of Education and Science, Russian Agency for Strategic Initiatives, Russian Agency for Information Society Development
Director: Oleg Fedorov, ofedorov@hse.ru
Partners: Russia’s top-tier academic journals on education; internships with leading Moscow secondary schools
Format: Full-time, 2 years
Director: Evgeny Savelyonok, esavelyonok@hse.ru
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