Ural State University of Economics hosted an international online conference dedicated to the economic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic for enterprises in Russia and Uzbekistan. The conference was organized jointly with the University of World Economy and Diplomacy (UWED) under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

January 14, the first in 2021 press conference of USUE rector Yakov Silin took place.  The press conference was attended by journalists from TV companies of Asbest, Kamensk-Uralsky, and Polevsky, as well as journalists of the Economist magazine of Ural State University of Economics.

USUE began the calendar year 2021 with an Open Day, where it presented all levels of education at the University, including secondary professional education at the USUE College and recently launched specialist’s degree programs in Forensic Science with Economic Analysis specialty.

The COVID-19 pandemic has made changes in the organization of the educational process at the USUE institutes and College. Measures to ensure sanitary and epidemiological well-being in connection with the spread of new coronavirus infection in student groups are taken following the directives of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation and the methodological recommendations of Rospotrebnadzor. 

On 16 December 2020 Quacquarelli Symonds (Great Britain) published QS Emerging Europe And Central Asia University Rankings 2021. In this rating USUE ranks 301-350 while securing its place among the TOP-100 Russian universities