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Choice strategy
Where to go to the applicant?
Choice strategy. Almost 100% of school graduates plan to enter higher educational institutions. This has never happened in the history of Russia. Applicants and their parents live in illusions, experts say. What awaits future students (p. 6–9)? What will they have to go through in order to get a student ticket (p. 10)? How does the crisis rules the labor market in different regions of Russia (p. 12)? And how not to miss the choice of the profession (p. 16) - About this in the main topic of the number 
Indeed, in Soviet times, only 10-15% of schoolchildren became students.
Where to go to the decision on where and what the child will go, is usually taken in winter. 2-3 months before admission, most families (51%) are determined with the choice of a particular university. ¹ The third has selected several universities and is determined with the only one. “The higher the level of education in parents, the more clearly the family is presented by the strategy of admission-with more likely, such a family has chosen a university and a specialty for admission in advance, and the applicant is better represented by the format of entrance exams,” says Grigory Androshchak, a researcher at LIA GU-SWE.
For 11% of respondents, it is important to enter any university for any specialty. For 43%, it is important to master a specific profession in a particular university. Almost the same (38%) make a choice in favor of a specialty, but not a university. 8% go to the university to any faculty.
The rating of the most attractive areas for schoolchildren looks like this: economics, sociology and management (25% of answers). In second place are the humanities (12%), then technical (12%) and jurisprudence (9%). Mathematics, medicine, IT, marketing and advertising scored only 6%, from which it follows that families do not very clearly imagine the prospects of different segments of the labor market.
The parent's wallet, before the crisis, a third of her parents sent their children to commercial places immediately. The rest believed in the ability of children to go to budget, that is, paid by taxpayers or from university funds. For 55% of parents, the load on the family budget associated with paying for training at a university even before the crisis was “very noticeable”, for 29% - “reasonable” and only for 4% - invisible. “Most parents are guided by situational logic: we will get involved in this matter, and we'll see it,” says Grigory Andruschak. - Only for a third of families is the cost of training at a university important when they make a choice. For most families, the most important is the availability of the right specialty at the university and the possibility of employment after its completion. ”
That how much “the policy of the university in a set of applicants will not change,” Tatyana Abramova commented on the deputy deputy training of the financial academy. - Visiting classes showed that interest in us does not fall. The number of warders can be reduced, but we left training for training at the level of last year. ”
The cost of studying at Moscow State University in the 2008–2009 academic year ranged from 200 thousand to 320 thousand rubles, the university’s press service said: “Due to inflation, the price with us will most likely increase. The decision will be made in June. ” At the Russian State University of Oil and Gas. Gubkina Price - 88–124.3 thousand rubles, and it will also increase. At the Russian Chemical and Technology University. Mendeleev’s cost of training will not change and will amount to 45-60 thousand rubles.
The price of illusions The economic growth of the last eight years has generated illusions among schoolchildren. They saw that the income of the parents grew, and the tendency to their own future extracted nothing. But whether they can find themselves in the labor market is a question. “When choosing a university, very few families pay attention to the content of higher education - what is studied at the university and what courses are taught,” summarizes Grigory Androucc from the Higher School of Economics. And this carelessness can do expensive in the future.
1 Here and below, the data of a survey of 1600 families of 11th grade students in the 16 largest cities of Russia, conducted by the Laboratory of Institutional Analysis of the State University of High School in April-May 2008.
