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The Higher School of Economics was officially established on the 27th of November 1992 through a government decree signed by Deputy Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar. Yaroslav Kuzminov and Yevgeny Yasin led the effort to create this new entity from scratch.
Yaroslav Kuzminov and Yevgeny Yasin founded the Higher School of Economics in 1992. Yaroslav Kuzminov served as the permanent rector since the university's establishment until his resignation in July 2021.
U.S. News & World Report ranked the Higher School of Economics at number 568 among Best Global Universities in 2022. The Center for World University Rankings placed it at position 881 during the same period while other assessments listed it between 305 and 411 or within the 801-900 range depending on the year and ranking body.
The European University Association suspended the Higher School of Economics in March 2022 because Rector Nikita Anisimov supported the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. This action followed support from the Russian Union of Rectors which contradicted European values committed to upon joining the association.
The first regional campus opened in Nizhny Novgorod in 1996 while the Saint Petersburg campus was founded in 1997. A third campus established itself in Perm also in 1997 with an online campus existing alongside these physical locations in Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Perm, and Saint Petersburg.