"Mobility programme teaches independence, patience and the ability to adapt". Anastasia Shishova on how to build a comfortable life in an unfamiliar city and get the most out of a semester in a foreign university.
Anastasia Shishova, a 3rd year student of the Business Management programme at the HSE Graduate School of Business, spent the spring semester of the 2022-2023 academic year on the south coast of France at IPAG Business School in Nice. Read about the studies in one of the oldest French business schools.
"All the professors will know you by name by mid-quarter, worry if you missed a class and be interested in your health." Anna Kostina talks about her studies at a university in Croatia, which went within the frameworks of the mobility programme.
In the spring semester 2022/2023 academic year Anna Kostina, a 2nd year student of the bachelor's program "Marketing and market analytics" at the HSE Graduate School of Business, visited one of the best business schools in Croatia - Zagreb School of Economics and Management. Classes are held in English, but some phrases in Croatian (e.g. "Dobar Dan!" - "Добрый день!") are understandable for Russians without an interpreter or knowledge of the language. Read in the review about how difficult it is to study at a small university, in comparison with the HSE Graduate School of Business’ studies, and what prospects a mobility programme in Croatia offers.
"Almost all exams were in written format: you had to write by hand on paper" - exams, study process, travel and other impressions of Anastasia Koroleva from her mobility programme at Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC)
Anastasia Koroleva, a 3rd year student of the Marketing and Market Analytics programme at the HiSE Graduate School of Business, visited one of the major multidisciplinary and professional universities in Paris - Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC). Anastasia studied in English on the exchange program in the spring semester 2022-23 academic year and also successfully improved her French. You can read about the impressions of the University of Paris in the review.
"To become a part of the Eternal City for a while is the best gift that the year 2022 has given me." Olesya Ivanova tell us about how she managed to spend six months in Rome, travelling and getting to know foreign students from all over the world, as soon as she decided to apply for a mobility programme.
Olesya Ivanova, student of the master's programme "Marketing: Digital Technologies and Marketing Communications" of the HSE Graduate School of Business, visited one of the best Italian universities LUISS Business School in Rome. As part of the individual educational plan, Olesya took the Executive Marketing programme, which is more often taken as a part of an MBA. Read in the review about how she managed to cope with bureaucratic tasks in a difficult 2022, what gave her training at the University of "the Eternal City" and how the student was convinced of the quality of her studies at the HSE Graduate School of Business.