The Duma has published statistics on the enrollment of SVO participants and their children in universities

Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Science and Higher Education Sergei Kabyshev (“A Just Russia – For Truth”) on Thursday reported at the plenary meeting of the chamber how benefits are implemented when entering a university for participants in a special military operation (SVO), their children, as well as children of the deceased from coronavirus of medical workers. “Based on the results of the 2023 admissions campaign, about 9,400 people were admitted to universities within the quota, of which 1,200 were participants in a special military operation and 8,200 members of their families,” the deputy said. In addition, according to his data, 220 SHE participants and their children were admitted to preparatory departments at universities at the expense of budgetary allocations. Mr. Kabyshev said that when applying for admission within the quota, the most popular areas are medical science, pedagogy and information technology. The leaders in admitting students within the quota were Don State Technical University, Higher School of Economics, Moscow State University and Southern Federal University.

At the same time, Sergei Kabyshev noted that the results of the admissions campaign indicate an incomplete selection of the quota. Among the reasons for this, he named the too young age of the children of SVO participants and the short duration of the new benefit. At the same time, there were difficulties with high competition for humanitarian and economic fields, stated the head of the science committee. In his opinion, in the future it is necessary to form at the legislative level “a clear, precise, flexible mechanism for the redistribution of seats.” Mr. Kabyshev also proposed increasing the number of budget places in popular areas.

Ksenia Veretennikova