Seventy-eight per cent of Russian families fully or mostly agree that their cities provide quality contemporary education that is enough to achieve success in life, Sber life insurance found in a survey ahead of the new academic year. Moscow and St. Petersburg emerged on top of the ranking with 91% each.

Some other leaders are: Togliatti (81%), Kazan, Krasnodar, and Samara (80% each), Rostov-on-Don and Omsk (79% each), and Naberazhniye Chelny (78%). Women are of a better opinion about the local college education (80% vs 77%). The age groups that gave the best grades to education in Russian cities are: 50‒60 years (87%), over 60 years (82%), and 30‒40 years (78%).

Eighty-seven per cent of the polled Russians said children's education/development is an important and priority expense item, which received top priority in Moscow (93%) and St. Petersburg (91%)

A plurality of respondents (80% on average in Russia) invest in their children's development/education.[1] According to the survey, the bulk of the money is being used to pay for sport clubs (22%) and creative groups or schools (15%). Foreign languages and tutors account for 12% of the family budget each, while extracurricular education consumes 11% of family budgets.

Furthermore, 48% of Russians claim they need to save money for their children's tuition. According to 43% of the respondents, it is worth thinking about it from the very birth of a child, 39% consider the issue since school, and 18% do that a few years before entering a university. The biggest money injections in children's education will be made by residents of St. Petersburg (91%), Yekaterinburg (67%), Moscow (66%) and Krasnoyarsk (61%).

According to the survey participants, the shortest path to a successful future is a technical or engineering degree (24% of respondents), one in IT, programming and computers (21%), medicine and biology (17%), economics, finance and management (13%), law and jurisprudence (10%), mathematics and natural sciences (8%), or the humanities (7%).

The opinion survey was conducted in August 2021 among respondents in 37 cities of Russia with 500,000+ people each, using a sample reflecting the sociodemographic profile of the city.

Appendix 1.

Percent of Russian residents saying their city is capable of providing quality contemporary education to succeed in life

Astrakhan

73%

Barnaul

73%

Vladivostok

75%

Volgograd

74%

Voronezh

75%

Ekaterinburg

76%

Izhevsk

73%

Irkutsk

73%

Kazan

80%

Kemerovo

76%

Kirov

74%

Krasnodar

80%

Krasnoyarsk

75%

Lipetsk

74%

Makhachkala

63%

Moscow

91%

Naberezhnye Chelny

78%

Nizhny Novgorod

75%

Novokuznetsk

76%

Novosibirsk

77%

Omsk

79%

Orenburg

72%

Penza

73%

Perm

73%

Rostov-on-Don

79%

Ryazan

77%

Samara

80%

St. Petersburg

91%

Saratov

73%

Togliatti

81%

Tomsk

71%

Tyumen

74%

Ulyanovsk

73%

Ufa

77%

Khabarovsk

76%

Chelyabinsk

75%

Yaroslavl

76%

Appendix 2.

Proportion of those investing in their children's development/education (group of respondents with children under 25 YO)

Astrakhan

74%

Barnaul

72%

Vladivostok

74%

Volgograd

73%

Voronezh

80%

Ekaterinburg

79%

Izhevsk

75%

Irkutsk

74%

Kazan

78%

Kemerovo

69%

Kirov

72%

Krasnodar

83%

Krasnoyarsk

75%

Lipetsk

77%

Makhachkala

75%

Moscow

88%

Naberezhnye Chelny

80%

Nizhny Novgorod

76%

Novokuznetsk

75%

Novosibirsk

81%

Omsk

72%

Orenburg

71%

Penza

79%

Perm

75%

Rostov-on-Don

85%

Ryazan

80%

Samara

77%

St. Petersburg

86%

Saratov

72%

Togliatti

81%

Tomsk

67%

Tyumen

79%

Ulyanovsk

74%

Ufa

76%

Khabarovsk

69%

Chelyabinsk

78%

Yaroslavl

77%

Appendix 3.

Respondents agreeing that children's education/development is a vital and priority expense item for a family

Astrakhan

82%

Barnaul

76%

Vladivostok

76%

Volgograd

85%

Voronezh

87%

Ekaterinburg

85%

Izhevsk

86%

Irkutsk

77%

Kazan

86%

Kemerovo

80%

Kirov

84%

Krasnodar

86%

Krasnoyarsk

80%

Lipetsk

88%

Makhachkala

70%

Moscow

93%

Naberezhnye Chelny

85%

Nizhny Novgorod

88%

Novokuznetsk

80%

Novosibirsk

78%

Omsk

82%

Orenburg

84%

Penza

85%

Perm

85%

Rostov-on-Don

86%

Ryazan

89%

Samara

89%

St. Petersburg

91%

Saratov

84%

Togliatti

88%

Tomsk

79%

Tyumen

83%

Ulyanovsk

84%

Ufa

85%

Khabarovsk

76%

Chelyabinsk

84%

Yaroslavl

89%

[1]The group with children under 25 years old.

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