International Relations

The Kyiv School of Economics has an agreement with the University of Houston (USA) that allows KSE students to obtain, while studying at KSE, a Master's degree of the University of Houston. Courses taken to receive the KSE certificate can simultaneously lead to a MA degree in Economics of the University of Houston, if the students meet the academic and administrative requirements of the University of Houston. Up to 3 students can, after the first year, be invited by the University of Houston to start their Ph.D. degree in Houston.

The Kyiv School of Economics has launched a cooperation program with CERGE-EI, a Western-style doctoral program in Prague. The Kyiv School of Economics has coordinated its course content with this program, giving a possibility to graduates of the KSE M.A. Program to start immediately in the second year of the doctoral program of CERGE-EI. Moreover, CERGE-EI allows the KSE students, after they finish the second year of Ph.D. studies, to return to Ukraine to finish their doctoral research at the Kyiv School of Economics.

Every year, a group of KSE students visit the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics of the Stockholm School of Economics with one week internship tour. During the tour students have an excellent opportunity to investigate the PhD program at the Stockholm School of Economics, to meet with the economic faculty and SITE researchers, and to participate in the school’s activities.

KSE has established a close relationship with the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI). The cooperation includes the joint organization of international conferences, faculty exchanges, and joint research projects. Next academic year a group of top KSE students funded by the Norwegian Government will have a short internship tour to NUPI. It will be will be an excellent opportunity for students to meet with NUPI experts, to use the library resources at NUPI and the universities in Oslo and to establish research contacts with Norwegian researchers. It will be also a great possibility for students to familiarize themselves with variouse postgraduate opportunities that exist at Norwegian universities, and learn more about Norway in general.