I was thinking about common grounds between the two universities and came to the conclusion that there are none. I guess, the most striking difference is that students, both Italians and choose all courses on their own. While in HSE we have the majority of mandatory disciplines written in our programmes with only limited number of elective ones, students in LUIS University have an opportunity to take any preferred course in the framework of their field of study. Being an exchange student, I had courses from, surely, political science, management and law departments. Besides, in Italy professor-student communication is clearly vertical, whereas in our HSE the style is horizontal, where professors are interested in feedback and are aimed at high audience engagement during seminars. The evidence of this fact is that we had no seminars at all during the semester: a course instructor held lectures and next time we saw him or her during an exam. The only exception was digital marketing, where we performed group presentations about marketing strategies developed for some startups (mainly new apps). Finally, exams in Italian universities are predominantly held in oral format, which can be quite challenging for those who are not fond of speaking.