To be considered for admission, you must have a bachelor’s degree or a master's degree and fill out an application form. You must also pass an online entrance exam.

Once you receive your login and password to access the application portal, you’ll need to complete and sign hard copies of the the following documents (all documents are available at https://www.hse.ru/en/ma/mds/apply):

• CONSENT for Personal Data Processing
• AGREEMENT between Participants of Electronic Communications
• ADMISSION FORM

You must submit scanned copies of your documentation by December 10th, 2020. You should also aim to submit hard copies of your documents by December 10th to to HSE at the following address: Online Master of Data Science Faculty of Computer Science NRU HSE Pokrovsky Boulevard, 11 Moscow, Russia 109028.

Please note that if you are successfully admitted to the programme (the list of recommended for enrollment will be published on December 28th), you will also need to submit hard copies of the following documents to HSE in order to be officially enrolled in the Spring 2021 cohort. While HSE will be accepting hard copies of your documents until January 25, 2021, you must submit scanned copies of your documents by December 10, 2020, before sending the hard copies to HSE. We recommend that you prepare them in advance:

• Academic diploma with supplements/transcript
• Notarized translation of diploma with supplements/transcript into Russian
• Passport/ID
• Notarized translation of Passport/ID into Russian

If your Diploma is not issued in Russia, please, check the rules of legalization here: Legalization of documents

Yes, the program is conducted fully online.

Yes! To be admitted to the program, applicants must pass an entrance exam.

To study in the program, you don't need to have prior background in the Data Science field.

To be accepted into the program, you will need to take an entrance exam and pass the exam. The entrance exam tests your understanding of basic knowledge of mathematics. You can find the list of topics covered in the entrance exam, as well as references here. Additionally, an exam preparation webinar with an explanation of how to solve the exam tasks is available here.

Upon completion of the program, students receive a Master of Data Science degree from HSE University, issued by the Russian government. The online mode won’t be mentioned on the Diploma. You will receive the same Diploma as on-campus students.

It’ll be issued in Russian and you'll receive the Diploma Supplement (Supplement to Degree Certificate) — an official document that facilitates recognition of national higher education certificates in Europe and confirms students’ qualifications.

No, the GMAT/GRE are not required for the MDS program. Applicants will be required to complete an online exam that tests their proficiency in basic math.

You don't need to pass English proficiency tests or provide us with any certificates. The official language of the program is English and all courses and communication are conducted in English, so you need to have a sufficient level of the language to be able to complete the program successfully.

The program length is 2 years. You can’t complete the program earlier because all the courses have their own launch date and become available at the same time for all students.

The program is part-time, to complete it successfully, we recommend you to spend 20-30 hours on courses per week. However, the amount of time which you’ll need to devote to your study also depends on your background. Please, also note, that mostly all students study two courses in parallel.

Yes. There are students who successfully combine their work and study in our program.

All the lectures are pre-recorded and you can study the courses on your own schedule; however, there are special assignments that have strict deadlines. There are also several live events in each course. We highly recommend attending live sessions so that you can ask questions directly to the instructor and immediately get a response. Live events are conducted twice a day, to accommodate people from different time zones.

Spring 2021 tuition fees: 675,000 - 1,350,000 Russian rubles, depending on the applicant's geographic location.

No. The tuition is divided into 3 equal parts (by semesters).

No, but some tuition fee discounts are available on the basis of country of residence. The discount is valid for the whole period of your studies and the tuition fee is paid in 3 equal installments before each semester starts.

During the learning process, we host some career events on Zoom with our partners (e.g. Yandex). Also, career sessions from our program’s partners are available for the students with the best academic progress.

Yes, you can continue your studies as a PhD student after you complete the program, however, please note that the requirements for each position in different universities may vary.