November 6, USUE hosted a meeting of students with a Hero of Russia, a Russian officer, major general, now the head of the Yekaterinburg Central Park of Culture Roman Shadrin . The event was held in the framework of the project "Heroes Are among Us."

November 6, USUE held the annual action “A Letter to Mom”, timed to the national Mother's Day. It was participated by USUE students and staff, high-school students, residents, and guests of Yekaterinburg. Postcards, envelopes, and stamps were provided by the organizers (the USUE Office for Youth Policy and volunteer brigade "Phoenix") free of charge.

About a thousand of senior high school students and their parents visited the Open Day at USUE: there were no empty seats in the spacious hall of the USUE Recreation Center.

This rating has been compiled since 2016. Ural State University of Economics has entered it for the first time and was placed in line 301–350, taking among Russian universities 72–82 place.

USUE rector Yakov Silin congratulated the volleyball players of the USUE team on their victory in Universiade - 2018 and wished them new sports wins.