The sixth graduation ceremony of the Graduate School of Urbanism

On 25 June the graduates of the master’s programmes ‘Urban Development and Spatial Planning’ and ‘Advanced Urban Design’ got their HSE master’s degrees

On June 25, 2018 an annual GSU graduation ceremony took place in the Shukhov Lab.

This year 33 students of the programme ‘Urban Development and Spatial Planning’ and 10 students of the international master’s programme ‘Advanced Urban Design’, a joint project of the HSE Graduate School of Urbanism and Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design, completed their studies and received their degrees. Both programmes took two years to complete and ended with students’ presentations of their final research projects.

Professor Mikhail Blinkin, acting dean of the Graduate School of Urbanism, and GSU expert Gleb Vitkov greeted the graduates. Following the tradition, they first awarded diplomas to those students who got honors’ degrees. In 2018 there were nine such graduates out of 43.

More congratulations followed from the GSU team, including deputy dean Ivan Medvedev, academic supervisor of the master’s programme ‘Urban Development and Spatial Planning’ Ruslan Goncharov, ‘History of Urbanism’ course tutor Vladimir Nikolaev, GSU professor Oleg Baevskiy, and GSU senior lecturer Kirill Puzanov.

Congratulations to all our graduates and good luck in your future careers!