The defence deadlines (1st- and 2nd-year students)
Please access this page to check your defence deadlines
Main deadlines
For the first-year students:
May 13 – students can change (correct) a topic of coursework (can not change a supervisor);
May 15 – students must submit a draft of coursework to a supervisor;
May 22 – students have to send a final version of coursework to a supervisor;
May 28 (1 week before the defence) – students have to upload coursework in LMS (after this a text of coursework can not be corrected!). You could upload your work earlier than the 28th of May.
May 30 (not later than 4 days before the defence) – supervisor has to submit their review to LMS
June 4 – Defence (presentation online)
You could access all the templates here: https://www.hse.ru/en/ma/cogito/theses
Updated deadlines for second-year students:
May, 12 - submit reviewers’ name and contacts
May, 12 - predefence - (all students have to go through predefence in May, even those who plans to defend in autumn)
Only those, who defend in June:
May, 20 - students have to upload coursework in LMS (after this a text can not be corrected!).
June, 2 - external reviewer has to send their feedback
June, 5 - supervisor has to submit their review to LMS
June, 10-11 - defence.
Those, who do not defend in June, do not upload their thesis to LMS in May.
You could access all the templates here: https://www.hse.ru/en/ma/cogito/theses