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% |
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