Educational program for students who want to become professionals in various areas of modern design.

Elaborate and constantly updated program allows students to gain fundamental knowledge, relevant skills and to get a profession that is in demand in modern society. The practice-oriented approach to working on students’ projects and supervision of successful russian designers provides an opportunity to gain real work experience, build an impressive portfolio and integrate into the professional environment while studying.

In 2020, THE HSE ART AND DESIGN SCHOOL offers students to chose from 14 different BA profiles on «Design» program: communication design, animation and illustration, environmental design, interior design, design and coding, design and contemporary art, game design and virtual reality, theater and cinema artist, media and design, comics, design and advertising and others.

Educational program for students who want to become fashion designers, fashion photographers, jewelers and universal professionals of the fashion industry.

HSE ART AND DESIGN SCHOOL provides students with everything they need to start a career in the fashion industry: while studying they create fashion collections, hold photo shoots and fashion shows, study the history of the costume. Education is focused on the practice under the guidance of their curators — successful designers and experts in the fashion world. The educational track of each student depends on the profile he chose: Fashion design, Branding in the fashion industry, Photography in fashion and advertising or Jewelry art and object design in fashion.

Educational program for students who want to become artists, curators, theorists and practitioners in all areas of contemporary art.

Program «Contemporary art» at HSE ART AND DESIGN SCHOOL is an opportunity to master the most advanced artistic practices, to get into the theory and history of art, to develop conceptual thinking. Students are actively involved in their own original projects and try themselves in different types of art: they create video art and installations, participate in exhibitions and international competitions. In the first year, they choose one of the three profiles on which their further professional track depends: Artist and curator, Photography and multimedia, Cinema and video art.

HSE ART AND DESIGN SCHOOL is a subdivision of the Higher School of Economics National Research University, one of the leading universities in Russia, a participant of the majority of authoritative international educational ratings (QS, ARWU, Times Higher Education, U.S. News Best Global Universities Subject).

It’s not only a huge scientific laboratory, but a representative expert platform as well: the HSE personnel are actively involved in the key expert discussions, they are members of many collegiate and consultative bodies and are opinion leaders of the most important issues in the sphere of education, social policy, healthcare, demography, labor market, transport, public administration, and technological development.