Master of Business Analytics is a unique online master's program that perfectly fits into the mainstream of business views on the tasks and ways of turning business models into the field of achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals, challenges that business itself has formulated as stakeholder capitalism at World economic forums and high-level discussion platforms. The program also focuses on application of financial tools, methodologies and practices aimed at maintaining of companies’ financial stability in the environment of structural crises fragmentation of world economy, economic sanctions and cancel culture. The program also considers recent financial innovations such as digital currencies and decentralized finance, sustainability-linked financial instruments and the like and how they can be analyzed and evaluated. 

Components implemented in the "Master of Business Analytics" online degree:

1. the rigorous curriculum prepares students to be leaders in the field of business analytics and finance in inclusive regenerative economy combining sound background in finance and accounting with Project’s Labs based on real-world business analytics problems under supervision of industry experts and Virtual Labs with international experts from International Council of the programme.
2. students will work with real–data sets from global and domestic companies to be prepared to career outcomes in finance, ESG, investor relations departments of companies and investment banks, strategic consultancy.
3. program’s solid team of lecturers both from the HSE University and industry (global consultancy and banks, large-scale Russian companies and banks) is excited and enthusiastic about the opportunity to offer high-quality instruction to online degree learners.
4. students will gain from our international networks from both emerging markets and developed economies.

“Master of Business Analytics” graduates develop:

• frameworks and measurers for new vision of company’s goal - stakeholder value creation - how to create value not only for shareholders, but as well for non-financial stakeholders
• integrated thinking competences to analyze financial capital, non-financial capitals, mainly human, organizational and clients (relational),  natural capital and how they predetermine future financial results
• skills in strategic reporting to secure the connectivity between non-financial capitals, sustainability of business and future financial performance
• ability to think strategically and see the big picture of all types of resource base in the companies, how the non-financial capitals can be measured, described by different metrics and how these metrics should be adjusted to industry and organizational type of business.

The master programme graduates’ professional spheres are as follows:

01 Education and Science (occupational education and supplementary vocational education);

08 Finance and economics (economics, finance, marketing and analytics).

Types of career tracks in which the graduates may be involved after completing the master’s programme:

• Business analytics for financial management
• Business analytics for value-based compliance
• Business analytics for strategic consulting
• Accounting and reporting (financial and non-financial)

The Master's degree program structure includes the following educational modules:

1. The Key seminars module is intended to provide the student with an introduction to best practices and/or research relevant to their learning path, coordinated by their mentor.

2. The Practical Module (hereinafter referred to as the Practice) forms the student's competencies, which allow solving practical problems of the chosen professional activity, including design, research, entrepreneurial, expert and analytical. The preparation of the WRC is also carried out as part of the development of the "Practice" module.

3. The Professional Module (hereinafter - Major) provides an opportunity to master the professional competencies necessary to achieve personal educational results of students. It includes the basic disciplines of the direction in econometrics, macroeconomics, the theory of finance, a block of basic disciplines of specialization, and the disciplines of the variable part are also included in accordance with the curriculum of the trajectory of the direction.

4. The Additional Module (hereinafter referred to as the Mago-Lego) gives the student the opportunity to obtain additional competencies that allow personalizing the IEP at the request of the student.
5. The Module of the Final State Certification (hereinafter referred to as the FSC) allows the student to set the level of results of mastering the EP by the student and includes the defense of the final qualifying work (FQW) - the Master Thesis.

Value Based Business Analytics

Type: Applied

Track Supervisor: Ivashkovskaya, Irina

Language of instruction: English

Use of online learning: Online programme

Qualification upon graduation: Master
 

Strategic Business Reporting (Applied track)

Strategic Business Reporting

Type: Applied

Track Supervisor: Grishunin, Sergei

Language of instruction: English

Use of online learning: Online programme

Qualification upon graduation: Master

This degree programme of HSE University is adapted for students with special educational needs (SEN) and disabilities. Special assistive technology and teaching aids are used for collective and individual learning of students with SEN and disabilities. The specific adaptive features of the programme are listed in each subject's full syllabus and are available to students through the online Learning Management System.

All documents of the degree programme are stored electronically on this website. Curricula, calendar plans, and syllabi are developed and approved electronically in corporate information systems. Their current versions are automatically published on the website of the degree programme. Up-to-date teaching and learning guides, assessment tools, and other relevant documents are stored on the website of the degree programme in accordance with the local regulatory acts of HSE University.

I hereby confirm that the degree programme documents posted on this website are fully up-to-date.

Vice Rector Sergey Yu. Roshchin

Summary of Degree Programme 'Master of Business Analytics'