At our university, training is carried out according to educational programs. This means that any applicant first chooses an interesting program for himself, then tries to enroll in it, and then, if he becomes a student, he will study on this program.

The programs offered by the university are very different - from secondary education programs to postgraduate and doctoral programs. If we talk only about higher education, at the Higher School of Economics you can get higher education at various levels on the main educational programs of bachelor's, specialist's, master's degrees, as well as programs for training scientific and pedagogical personnel in graduate school. In addition to educational levels, programs may differ in areas of training. Currently, our university provides training in a wide range of educational areas - not only in the “title” socio-economic areas for HSE, but also in the humanities, engineering, and computer science. So, in 2017, about 30 different areas of training are offered for training.

Faculties and educational programs

The two main entities that a student encounters during his studies at the university are his faculty and educational program. HSE has describing the activities of the faculty and formulating its main task as "ensuring a high level of training for students, graduate students, listeners, research and design work performed ...". As a rule, educational programs are "assigned" to certain faculties, and faculties (depending on their size) may have a different number of educational programs, from a few units to several dozen. The rules by which each educational program lives and develops are fixed in

What does a student remember when it comes to his educational program?

Of course, about his fellow students and teachers, with whom he meets at lectures, seminars, master classes, about what he is taught and where he can work after graduation ... Undoubtedly, these are integral parts of any program, but its main "official" characteristic - this is a curriculum that the student has to fully master during the period of study. is closely related to the current educational standard in this area of ​​training and the level of education. The Higher School of Economics, as a national research university, received the right to independently set educational standards (see Article 11 of the Federal Law “On Education in the Russian Federation”), and it exercised this right. This is how the university appeared .

Briefly about the curriculum of the educational program

Based on its own OS, each major educational program at the NRU HSE develops a curriculum. In the curriculum of the program, there are always both compulsory disciplines and electives: within the framework of this program and disciplines from university-wide pools of disciplines, with which students can supplement their individual learning path (, in a magistracy,).

Students who have successfully completed their studies, as well as passed the final certification, receive a "document on education and qualifications" of the appropriate level and direction of training, and in other words - a diploma.

Who runs the educational program?

All administrative issues during the implementation of the program are resolved by the training office, and its activities are regulated. Students can contact the staff of the training office with all organizational issues arising during the training.

Where can I get information about the program

You can get detailed information about any higher education program at the Higher School of Economics on its website. Actually, the program site is a detailed image of the program, and it is designed for various categories of users: applicants and their parents, students, representatives of external structures that regulate educational activities. The site has mandatory sections, of which:

  • applicants can learn all the most important about admission to the program, for example,
  • students find information on the educational process and student life in general (: message board, schedule, ratings, etc., including);
  • all categories of users can familiarize themselves with and read these courses, see the "quality marks" received by the program (its various accreditation and certification), and a lot of other useful information;
  • and, of course, the program's website contains the contacts of its academic leader and the educational office, who can always ask questions about the program and, what is important, get answers.

Schoolchildren, it seems, have already passed the exam and are about to go to apply to universities. Programming and IT-technologies are in stable demand, much like the legal and economic specialties 10 years ago.

In this article I will tell you how higher education for IT works, how to choose the right IT specialty.
The article will be useful not only for applicants-2015, but also for high school students who have already decided to connect their lives with IT.

Do I need to go to university to become a programmer?

There are many points of view on this issue and I am sure it will be raised more than once in the comments. In my humble opinion, higher education is not a prerequisite for becoming an IT specialist, just like a guarantee of this. But it can become a solid foundation for professional growth.

You can read books, participate in the OpenSource community, earn extra money at oDesk, and in a few years you will be an experienced developer without a college degree. True, nothing prevents you from doing all this in parallel with your studies at the university, except for your own laziness.
You can enroll, pass tests and exams, get a diploma and not end up becoming a professional programmer - there are millions of such stories.

A good university provides, first of all, excellent conditions for gaining knowledge, experience, connections and growing as a person. And it depends only on you how you will use them (and whether you will at all).
Let's take it conditionally that you have already made a decision to get a higher education in the field of IT, and let's move on.

Bachelor, Specialist and Master


Years have passed since the Ministry of Education decided to integrate Russia into the Bologna system of higher education and a lot has changed. Previously, all IT specialists could only get a specialist diploma. This year, the last graduated specialists graduated (with the exception of specialties where the training period is more than 5 years).
Now you can become a bachelor's degree, after that - a master's degree, and then go to graduate school for the Russian equivalent of Ph.D.

What has really changed?
In the old curricula for "specialists", the number of hours was cut by one year, while the most difficult disciplines were either removed or reduced. Many academic topics from the field of algebra, probability theory, physics will remain uncovered by the teacher for the bachelor's degree. In a number of specialties where programming is an auxiliary competence (for example, information security), various programming technologies have come under the knife - from web development to parallel programming.

Otherwise, neither the theoretical material nor the teaching methodology has changed. The volume of the material has decreased. If some university used to give laboratory tests for Pascal, then they still give them.
At the same time, the curricula of the magistracy can boast of novelty. This can be written separately if there is a demand.

It should be borne in mind that a bachelor is not a ready-made employee who can come to an employer with a red diploma and ask for an average salary in a hospital. The bachelor knows something, is able to do something from technology, but as a rule, he cannot work in a team, a large team and completely independently solve specific practical problems. In the terminology of developers, this is Junior, promising to become a Middle Developer in 2-4 years. In many companies, such graduates with no experience arrange internship programs with a mentor for 6-12 months.

Applied and Academic Bachelor's Degree

It goes without saying that the specialty was simply reduced by 20%, could not please the Ministry of Education. Few people can be pleased with the "under-specialist" who now knows even less. Therefore, starting from 2015, the applied bachelor's degree will be introduced everywhere as an alternative to incomplete academic education.

In short, the applied from the academic differs in a new curriculum, where all disciplines are focused on the release of an employee who is most ready for real work tasks. No internships and other smut for the employer. For example, an academic bachelor's degree may leave a "mathematician-programmer", and from an applied one "Developer.Net", "Relational database developer" or "C ++ programmer". The latter are more interesting to the labor market immediately after graduating from the university, the first ones after graduating from the bachelor's degree must enter the magistracy and further develop their competencies in order to apply for higher positions after graduation. Another useful thing is participation in the applied baccalaureate curriculum of employers (as a practice base) and IT vendors.

Despite the fact that, in my opinion, the idea is sound and its implementation was started 5 years ago in 44 pilot universities, I have not yet come across qualitatively new teaching materials or graduates ready for independent work. I suppose that in the next 2-3 years nothing will change and there will be no significant difference in the preparation of academic and applied bachelor's degrees. Nevertheless, if you have already decided to become a master's degree - go to the academic one, if after 4 years of study you plan to go to work, and return to the master's degree "someday" - then on the applied one.

Teaching at the university


If they study at school, they study at the university. And the difference is huge. Nobody will force you to study. If you want to get a diploma - sit, sort it out, ask your classmates. A teacher is just a bearer of knowledge who can explain this knowledge. Its purpose is to tell, yours is to understand. If you do not understand something, the teacher has fulfilled his goal anyway. Even if in some cases this is not the case, it is better to think in this particular paradigm, there will be less disappointment.

The quality of teaching lies precisely in how well the teacher communicates knowledge to you, what practical competence you acquire in doing so. For example, you can convey the principle of OOP in the Delphi programming language, or in C # or Java. You will understand OOP anyway if you try, but familiarity with the C # or Java languages ​​will be useful for you in the future, when preparing term papers, with a part-time job or further employment.

Teaching is inert. The more a teacher reads the same course using the same technologies as an example, the better he is at communicating knowledge to students. But IT technologies are changing too quickly, so two extremes are possible:

  1. the teacher reads to you what is morally outdated, but you understand everything perfectly
  2. the teacher talks about the latest technologies, but you still have big gaps in understanding something (if you do not fill them yourself in books, on StackOverflow or MSDN, then it will remain so).
There are wonderful teachers who update 30% of their teaching material every year, but not everyone is ready for such an effort.

In addition to splitting the bachelor's degree into academic and applied, education standards are now being updated from the second generation to 3 and 3+. With so many changes in teaching, there is a risk that the next 2-3 sets of students will be worse prepared than the next. This means that you need to make more personal efforts.

When choosing a university and a specialty, it is desirable to know Who and What will tell you. Before the final choice - check with current students, read VK student groups.

Choice of specialty

So you decided to get a higher education, become a programmer. And not just a programmer, but, for example, a Web developer specializing in frontend. It's cool that at the age of 18 you already have a goal in life, but I hasten to upset. In our country there is such a thing as higher education standards and they are much more abstract than you would like it to be.

A complete list of higher education standards can be viewed here. Not all of them still have generation 3+ standards, but they will be by the end of the year. I recommend reading these boring documents.

Mathematical support and administration of information systems (MOAIS).

A specialty that provides the best conditions for the development of developer's competencies.

You will learn: programming technologies in various languages ​​(usually in 4 years you will get acquainted with at least three programming languages ​​- for example: C ++, C #, Lisp, or C ++, Java, Python), development and administration basics of relational and object-oriented databases, network technologies , application development "client-server", "client-server applications - database server", parallel programming.

Training gives an understanding of programming in principle, in a couple of months you are able to learn any programming language and develop in it; understanding how any program works, how to solve most computational problems. After receiving your diploma, you are a strong Junior, but as soon as you understand the specific tasks and tools in a particular company, the knowledge base will be enough to qualify for Middle.

After work experience and a good master's degree in this specialty, you will not only be able to make programs and information systems, but you will get acquainted with the principles of developing high-load systems, team management, development planning and will be able to apply for Senior and Team Lead.

Fundamental Informatics and Information Technologies (FIIT).

The specialty is close to MOAIS, but focused on computational experiments and research tasks.
In other words, as a programmer you will be in your best shape, but you will be almost useless for solving practical business problems. But you are a valuable resource for R&D departments, scientific laboratories and research teams. Training in this specialty in a good university makes it possible to choose a place of work around the world, working in well-known companies. From the very beginning it is assumed that the bachelor's degree will be only the first step of your education.

Quite a real story: having received a bachelor's degree at Moscow State University, enroll in a CalTech master's program. It goes without saying that physics, algebra and calculus should be your passion.

Informatics and Computer Engineering (ICT)

The specialty is focused on educating system programmers working with hardware. You will have the skills to program robots, real-time systems and work with a blowtorch. With such an education, you will not want to develop boring accounting systems and web applications, but your further career can begin both as a video surveillance engineer in a small private security company and in a robotics laboratory of a large brand (of course, after completing a master's program).

In my opinion, everything is with purely programming specialties. Below is a list of specialties where programming is also taught. But if the specialties from above have a curriculum designed so that a Programmer graduates, then the specialties below - a Specialist in something with programming skills.

Not just a programmer

Software engineering

A relatively new specialty, which essentially trains software product managers. This specialist looks over development tasks, manages requirements, functionality, versions, development teams. In the first years, you will learn programming technologies and, possibly, a couple of languages, but further in the curriculum you will be more and more about software development management. You can start your career as a Junior Developer, but instead of further upgrading to Middle, you will become a project manager.

Applied Informatics

Graduates system analysts with a broad outlook in IT and business. They also know how to program, but they are really good at writing technical specifications, formalizing business processes and effectively communicating with developers who are hovering in high abstractions. You can become a project manager or even a director of your company if you have such ambitions.

Business Informatics

It is very close to applied computer science, but the managerial competence of the graduate is much stronger. You can be an IT application consultant or manage the IT policy of a small holding. After receiving the diploma, start working at least in support, but the career goal "IT Director" can be achieved in a matter of years.

Information systems and technologies

Focus on the administration of information technology and the right choice of software and hardware for the tasks of a corporate LAN. Programming will be, but at a procedural level, closer to scripts and configuration files.

Mathematics and Computer Science

A large portion of fundamental knowledge will allow you to work as a computer science teacher at school and as an analyst in a large company. In a good university, this specialty gravitates towards scientific research and can also be a start in R&D for those who prefer mathematical sciences to physics.

Information Security

The first course is often similar to specialties like MOAIS, where they program a lot and in different languages, but then it stops. You don't have to write code, you have to understand how any code can be attacked. Networks and operating systems will be familiar like no one else, you can call yourself a hacker, but you will have to work in the field of security, with regulations, and not just with firewalls and sniffer.

It is important to understand that everything depends on the specific educational institution. It's like the HTML standard and its implementation on a provincial beauty salon website. There are universities where students of all specialties attend the same lectures. There are universities where MOAIS studies Visual Basic and Pascal, writes macros in Excel, and studies databases using Access as an example. If you have such a university in your hometown, then it's time to buy train tickets.

The choice of a specialty upon admission is extremely important, since it determines the further career and, perhaps, the whole life. This is essentially the first independent choice in life and the mistake will be measured for years. Therefore, it is too early to "exhale" after the exam, it's time to learn as much as possible about the nearest university, its students and teachers. Good luck.

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Hello reader! You have probably already realized that studying at the university is a very important stage in life, which reflects the future destiny of a person very accurately. Higher education helps not only to find a job worthy of their qualifications, but also to gain respect in the person of colleagues and superiors, as well as to rapidly advance along the so-called "trade union line" and ensure a comfortable existence. However, so far all these are dreams, and the student, as you know, "lives from session to session."

It is precisely about this period "from session to session" that it is worth talking in more detail, since in the charter of any university it is called a "curriculum". If you strictly follow all her recommendations, then problems with academic performance should certainly not arise.

Before talking about the features of the educational process, it is worth noting that curriculum is the action plan approved by the Ministry of Science and Education of the Russian Federation, which allows you to determine the amount of knowledge and skills suitable for a particular course of study at the university.

To put it simply, it is clearly defined which segment of the program the student must go through in the first, second, third, fourth and fifth courses. In accordance with the curriculum, teachers create syllabus, that is, they provide in writing information about what students will do in pairs in each course, what knowledge and skills they will acquire, what new sciences they will become familiar with and how deeply.

So, to put it simply, the curriculum at the university is the boss, and the curriculum is his subordinate. That is why this type of reporting concerns not so much students as teachers, who, within the established time frame, must provide the expected volume of both theoretical and practical information offered for study by students of universities.

In those cases when the teacher realizes that he does not have time to “subtract his hours,” he organizes voluntarily - forced pairs at inopportune hours in order to quickly catch up with the material that was not covered in time.

Perhaps such scrupulousness is not important for the student, but the teacher's task is to provide for the study those topics that were approved by the curriculum at the beginning of the academic year. In general, this is very important, and this critical issue should not be ignored.

Principles of curriculum creation

As I have already said, the Minister of Science and Education of the Russian Federation approves the curriculum at the university, and the curriculum is approved by the dean or head of the department. It immediately becomes interesting, and according to what principles is the selection of the program, which many teachers of higher educational institutions honor, as the charter and the second Constitution?

There are several criteria for evaluating, and let's discuss them in more detail:

1. Relevance of selected topics and subjects... Scientific and technological progress, however, like the achievements of science and culture, does not stand still; therefore, those topics in the curriculum that were relevant a few years ago have now become "morally obsolete", that is, unclaimed.

To understand what is at stake, let me remind you of the immortal Lenin and the genius Karl Marx with his Capital. In the first case, our mothers and fathers knew the biography of this "people's favorite" by heart, and all the congresses of the CPSU in detail even bounced off their teeth (even at night, wake up and ask).

As for "Capital" by Karl Marx, I personally did not study this topic at school and university; and only a couple of pages were devoted to the life of Vladimir Ilyich in my history textbook. Now, I think, it is clear what "obsolete information" means.

2. Social education of students... Study should not only be cognitive and compulsory, but also have a social connotation, that is, the material is selected so that the student learns something useful and vital from the information received, and does not leave the content of the subject “behind the scenes,” so to speak.

3. Development of creativity... Very often the teacher says about some of his students: "He does not see beyond his own nose." In this case, we are not talking about poor eyesight at all, but about a narrow outlook, lack of imagination and primitive thinking.

If a student does not know how to sort the information received on a pair and apply it in practice, then it is unlikely that in the future he will turn out to be a competent and qualified specialist. However, it is quite possible to learn this in five years, the main thing is to set a goal and take a responsible approach to the educational process.

4. Sequence of presentation of knowledge... The curriculum is structured in such a way that the curriculum begins with simple and accessible information, but gradually becomes more complex and deeper. Simply put, without knowing the multiplication table, you cannot solve examples of finding the discriminant, for example. I think the main point in this case is clear.

5. The connection of the studied subjects... The curriculum includes those subjects that are related to each other, or logically complement each other. For example, it can be ecology, chemistry, biology; or psychology, sociology and natural science. In general, it turns out that a Russian student receives a comprehensive education, which cannot be said about the foreign teaching method, but more on that later.

Now it is clear what the school curriculum is and what points are important in its annual compilation or correction. As a rule, the curriculum at a university does not radically change for many years, but every year it is supplemented with new facts and topics that, as you know, are relevant at the moment and keep up with the times.

Features of the domestic curriculum

This means that in September, after the holidays, they begin to spontaneously attend a number of lectures within the framework of their specialty, and after that they independently select for themselves those subjects that, in their opinion, are the most necessary.

No, of course, there is basic knowledge that you want or don’t want, but you will have to get it, but already in the second year, a student of an overseas university studies those topics that are considered the most necessary in their future profession.

And you can also visit painting couples, literary and art circles, but only for your own pleasure, or in order to consider yourself a comprehensively developed personality. Such seminars are additional activities, but students are ready to go to the university solely for the sake of attending them.

Now it is clear why domestic specialists are so in demand abroad. The fact is that these are broad-based workers who, studying complex mechanisms, simultaneously write essays in pairs of business Russian, or conduct experiments in chemistry (in the first year).

Where an import specialist will expect the help of another narrow specialist, the domestic one will figure it out himself; remember at least an episode from the immortal picture "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears", during a conversation between Katya and the head of the workshop about the breakdown of the machine.

How to structure the curriculum correctly?

I found information on the Internet that the curriculum can be built in two ways - concentric and linear. Although this information is more necessary for teachers, I nevertheless decided to figure out what these intricate terms mean. And here's what I dug up:

Concentric way Is a systematic repetition of the material covered, but each time in a more in-depth form. As a rule, it is this technique that is used in modern higher educational institutions, colleges and vocational schools. As practice shows for many years, the method really works in practice, and has already allowed graduating more than one excellent student (qualified specialist).

Linear way associates the curriculum with links in the same chain. The teacher's task is to consistently pay attention to each link, and start the next one only after an in-depth study of the previous one.

In this case, the main emphasis is on logic, which connects all the links of one chain. This curriculum creation method works more in schools, but can also be used in other educational institutions.

In conclusion, we can only add that it is not the students who establish the curriculum, it is not for them to cancel it or ignore it. Kohl came to study at the university, be so kind as to follow all the rules that exist within its walls, which have been working here for a long time and have been perfected to automatism. And amateur performance, arrogance and systematic violation of the rules are definitely not welcome here!

Conclusion: In the article I presented, I told in detail to all interested students and not only what a curriculum at a university is, who invented it, and how it is correctly drawn up in practice.

The topic is important, the topic is necessary, especially when there are still five long years of hard study ahead! All information on a given topic is succinctly presented on the pages of the site, so no one should have any questions from now on.

Now you know what is the curriculum at the university, and how important it is for successful learning.