About

The Faculty of Computer Science was created with the goal of becoming one of the world’s leading faculties for developers and researchers in data analysis, machine learning, big data, bioinformatics, system and software engineering, and system programming.

Computer science is rapidly developing, and education in this area cannot always keep up with the IT industry challenges. With this in mind, Yandex created the School of Data Analysis in 2007 to provide additional training for university graduates. In 2014, collaborating with HSE University, Yandex helped to cofound the Faculty of Computer Science. Ivan Arzhantsev, then the head of Yandex academic programmes, was made dean of the new faculty.

In cooperation with major companies like Yandex, Sber, 1C, and others, the Faculty provides both deep theoretical knowledge and hands-on practical experience in many branches of contemporary computer science.

At the same time, the Faculty collaborates with leading research centres such as the Russian Academy of Sciences and its institutes (Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Federal Research Centre for Computer Science and Control, Ivannikov Institute for Systems Programming), CERN, and Skoltech. Researchers from these institutions are involved in teaching, student supervision, and joint research projects.

The Faculty of Computer Science offers five bachelor’s and ten master’s degree programmes.

The bachelor’s degrees are in applied mathematics and computer science and software engineering (instruction in Russian with some courses offered in English). There are also a data science and business analytics programme (in English), economics and data analysis programme, and an online programme in computer science and data analysis.

The master’s programmes are in system and software engineering, and data science (instruction in English), as well as in math of machine learning, bioinformatics, system programming, and financial technologies and data analysis (instruction in Russian with some courses offered in English). We also offer three fully online master’s degree programmes in data science, machine learning and data-intensive systems, and complex business systems development and implementation (in Russian).

Any graduate is expected to be a highly skilled specialist with sufficient training in mathematics, programming, and computer science, and practical experience in a particular field.

Research work is continued in the doctoral school of computer science.

The Faculty’s Continuing Education Centre has been implementing vocational education programmes in mathematics, programming, data analysis and machine learning since 2016. Students of the Centre’s programmes are those who want to expand their knowledge in these fields and to gain new professional skills. There is a wide range of courses designed for all levels of training: from programmes that do not require basic knowledge in programming and mathematics to advanced courses on modern methods and problems.