Demand for regional higher education systems in the Russian Federation among school graduates and interregional mobility of university graduates

The article examines the demand for the higher education system and measures of post-educational migration of university graduates at the regional level. A typology of regions of the Russian Federation is presented based on a combination of two indicators of the demand for the regional higher education system among school graduates and the migration of university graduates from these regions, which allows measuring the state of the system both at the “input” and at the “output” according to data of 2024.
The authors highlight the impact of post-educational migration on the regional economies and the risks posed by the differentiation in demand for the higher education system in various regions of the Russian Federation.

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