Applying for Master’s Programmes

1 Choose Programmes 2 Submit an Application Form 3 Application Evaluation 4Prepare Your Documents 5 Enrolment

Step 4: Prepare Your Documents

Once you have received an e-mail with recommendation for admission to HSE, enter your Foreign Applicant’s Personal Account section “Offer of Admission“ and follow the instructions:

Select the chosen programme.
Upload there all necessary documents.

FOR SCHOLARSHIP CANDIDATES

FOR FEE-PAYING CANDIDATES

Required Documents:

1. ORIGINAL Scholarship Application completed in English with a picture in the upper right corner (3×4 cm, color or black and white on matte paper) signed by the applicant. You can download the form and guidelines in the personal account-section Offer of Admission.

2. Scanned copy of your degree certificate (diploma + transcript with grades) as well as related notarized Russian translations.

If you have not yet received your degree certificate at the time of submission, you can send a certificate with grades and subjects that reflects the entire period that you have studied at that institution or a scanned copy of your grade book. Documents must be translated and certified by an official notary/translation service.

3. Standard general medical certificate COPY confirming that you are medically fit. The document must be translated and certified by an official notary/translation service.

4. Medical certificate COPY indicating HIV test results. The document must be translated and certified by an official notary/translation service.

5. Passport COPY you will use when applying for your Russian visa. Document must be translated and certified by an official notary/translation service.

Your passport must be valid for at least 18 months from your intended date of entry. The intended date of entry cannot be earlier than 1 September 2024 and your passport must be valid at least until 1st March, 2026.

Required Documents:

1. Passport COPY you will use when applying for your Russian visa. The document must be translated and certified by an official notary/translation service.

IMPORTANT: if you apply for an online programme, for making a contract with HSE University you may provide a translation of the passport without notarization.

Your passport must be valid for at least 18 months from your intended date of entry. The intended date of entry cannot be earlier than 1 September 2024 and your passport must be valid at least until 1st March, 2026.

2. Scanned copy of your degree certificate (diploma + transcript with grades), as well as related notarized Russian translations.

If you have not yet received your degree certificate at the time of submission, you can send a certificate with grades and subjects that reflects the entire period that you have studied at that institution or a scanned copy of your grade book. Documents must be translated and certified by an official notary/translation service.

Candidates must submit their documents in the section Offer of Admission within 40 days from decision in the personal account.

More details about officially notarized ONLINE translations here.

Candidates must submit their documents in the section Offer of Admission to conclude the study agreement.

More details about officially notarized ONLINE translations here.

Tips for scanning documents and uploading files:

Scan each of the relevant documents as separate files. Do not scan everything together as one file.

The file format for each scanned document must be saved as a PDF file (not JPEG, MPEG, TIFF etc).

Give each file a unique file name. For example:

a. Passport should be saved as Passport for John Smith

b. Diploma – Diploma for John Smith, etc.

Please ensure you have provided a unique name to each attachment which identifies the content, e.g Passport for John Smith, Academic transcript for John Smith, etc.