The University hosts a number of events timed to its 50th anniversary. September 21, the USUE Rector Yakov Silin and USUE Vice-Rector for Social Work Roman Krasnov met with the leaders of the national-cultural unions of the Sverdlovsk region and with foreign students.

September 22, in Chelyabinsk, they summed up and presented the works of Russian-Tajik youth contest "Strategic Economic Project within the Common Economic Space of EAEU".

Students of Ural State University of Economics and other universities who are members of the Association of International Students met at USUE with the Consul General of France Mr. Eric Millet.

In September, a group of students of Ural State University of Economics took a tour under the guidance of assistant professor at the Department of Commerce, Logistics and Trade Economics Svetlana Tsaregorodtseva to the hypermarket "Carousel".

September 20, 2017, Ural State University of Economics opened a stadium and a professional sports ground near the dormitories on Umeltsev Street. New sports facilities radiate youth, beauty, and strength; cultivate the desire to go in for sports and to study.