Online Bachelor's Degree is an innovative program that allows you to combine the advantages of a project-based approach to design education and digital competencies in a distance format to train in-demand professionals who can work both in the office and remotely in Russian and international companies, agencies, projects.

Online Bachelor's Degree is a joint project of HSE ART AND DESIGN SCHOOL and the National Research University Higher School of Economics — Perm. Each applicant can choose one of four educational profiles: Communication design, Animation and illustration, Game design and virtual reality, Sound design. Although all classes are held remotely, most of them have a synchronous format: the teacher works with students in real time and in constant dialogue, monitoring progress and commenting on each project.

Learning is based on the project approach: from the first lesson each student makes his own project, gaining design skills and knowledge of the history and theory of art and design during making the project.Student groups include no more than 25 people who study under the guidance of a group curator.

Every year student makes at least four projects, which he defends at public screenings to examination boards that can include teachers from all campuses of HSE ART AND DESIGN SCHOOL. All students’ projects are stored in the digital portfolio — a tool that allows you not only to track the professional progress of each student, but also to find a suitable employee among students for a potential employer or customer.

Online Bachelor's degree allows to enjoy all the benefits of the «new mobility». All classes are held in a distance format, which allows not only to obtain professional knowledge and competencies for students living anywhere in the world, regardless of the time zone, to study where it is convenient for the student, and to communicate with teachers from all the campuses of HSE ART AND DESIGN SCHOOL, but also to develop interdisciplinary skills related to working online, in order to be able not to limit yourself in places of work and to choose a company or customer from any city in Russia or the world.