The Faculty of Physics at HSE was formed in October 2016.

The principal peculiarities of HSE’s Faculty of Physics are the following ones:

• hiring the best and most active physics experts to teach up-to-date courses, including first years of education;
• bridging the gap between education and the sciences through the development of a "core system", which can offer students intensive instruction in the fundamentals of physics during the early years of their study with an eye to further professional development through involvement in practical research carried out by the faculty’s founding organizations (leading physics institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)).