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Personnel regulations: how will the state order of budget places in universities work?
At least half of the budget places in universities will now be allocated by direct government order, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko said at a meeting with Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. We are talking about the formation of a new model for the distribution of admission control figures between universities. So far, budget places are distributed based on the results of an interuniversity competition, but now the state will allocate at least half of them independently, based on the priorities of the economy and production. For more information, see the Izvestia article.
What does the state order for the training of specialists mean?
Dmitry Chernyshenko spoke at the meeting about the systematic training of highly qualified engineering personnel.
"At least half of the budget places will now be allocated through a direct government order to train specialists in priority areas," the Deputy Prime Minister said.
— On February 6, 2025, at a meeting of the Council on Science and Education, the President instructed to create a new model for the distribution of admission control figures, which will provide for the allocation of at least half of budget places through a direct state order for personnel training in priority areas of the economy and industries that ensure the achievement of technological independence and leadership, as well as spatial development of the Russian Federation, — the government explained to Izvestia.
In fact, the state order is the training of highly qualified personnel in demand in these priority areas, the government stressed.
At the aforementioned meeting of the Presidential Council on Science and Education, President Vladimir Putin called it important that "budget places in engineering specialties should not be dissolved into the general mass, but should be allocated strictly to the tasks of industries and industries." He instructed "in a short time... to build all the mechanisms for distributing the so-called admission control figures, to bring them to specific educational institutions." The President said that, first of all, budget places should be given to "universities and colleges with high results in personnel training."
At the same meeting, Valery Falkov, Minister of Science and Higher Education, proposed transferring up to 70% of the budget places, primarily in priority specialties, to universities "without competition based on average figures over the past three years." It was proposed to submit 25% of budget places to the competition, and leave another 5% in reserve in order to respond to changing personnel demand.
Valery Nikolaevich Falkov
However, now Chernyshenko has announced a share of 50% of budget seats, which will be distributed by state order.
What will the new model change?
Now, as Alexey Egorov, director of the MEPhI Student office, explained to Izvestia, each university in an enlarged group of areas and specialties (UGNS) can, within certain limits, declare the number of places it wants to receive. A justification is formed for each application, including showing the average score of the previous recruitment, the percentage of employment and support from employers. Based on the rating, it is determined how many places the state can provide for each UGNS, after which the university confirms the places received.
The government stressed that the new model of allocating budget places will maintain its focus on the staffing needs of the regions — now "more than 82% of budget places are allocated to regional universities."
Alexander Mazhuga, first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Science and Higher Education, noted that the current approach to allocating admission control figures based on a competition "does not take into account the request of subjects and industries related to the region."
"With a competitive approach, universities in the regions may find themselves in a worse position than in the capital, areas in demand by the economy often turn out to be less popular, etc.," he told Izvestia. — Therefore, it is proposed to improve the procedure for allocating CPI in favor of transferring at least half of the budget places in the "state order" format. This approach will take into account the demand for the staffing needs of industries and regions.
The deputy emphasizes that applicants will "practically not feel this," especially since in recent years there has been a "record number of budget places in universities in Russia."
Boris Ilyukhin, a senior researcher at the Center for Economics of Continuing Education at the Presidential Academy, suggested that Dmitry Chernyshenko's statement indicates the possible "formation of a CCP for each individual university not based on the results of a competition between universities, but directly from the ministry."
Timofey Voronin, Deputy Director of the Center for Scientific and Technological Policy at Lomonosov Moscow State University, noted that the new model would lead to a review of the number of budget places at universities. A higher priority — and, consequently, the number — will be given to technical and engineering specialties.
"We are talking about engineers, specialists in the field of information security, in the field of application and development of AI, highly qualified specialists for the manufacturing industry and, for example, the military—industrial complex," Timofey Voronin told Izvestia.
He expects that budget places in other training areas will not be reduced to a minimum number, and the process of redistributing budget places "will proceed smoothly and taking into account the needs of the economy." The MIPT press service also noted that in recent years, the share of budget places in engineering, technology, and natural science fields has been steadily increasing.
However, so far, sources close to major universities have noticed that the mechanism for distributing admission control figures has not been prescribed, there have been no specific orders, and all the processes are not fully understood.
How will the budget intake change in the coming years?
Boris Ilyukhin stressed that applicants should not wait for changes in admission conditions, but it is obvious that the number of places in engineering fields will only grow in the near future.
Evgeny Bely, Doctor of Technical Sciences, believes that the state "will take a clear course to provide industries with specialists in short supply today: doctors, teachers, engineers."
— For this purpose, the mechanism of targeted recruitment will be unwound and an analogue of the Soviet distribution of specialists will be introduced — first in healthcare, and then, probably, in education, — he said. — The issue related to the limitation of paid recruitment remains controversial. There are many negative factors here that may eventually outweigh the expected advantages.
The point is that the Russian authorities intend to legislate the authority to regulate commercial admission to universities — Dmitry Chernyshenko also spoke about this, this was confirmed to Izvestia and the government of the Russian Federation, recalling that "the relevant bill is currently under consideration in the State Duma."
Arseniy Filin, the founder of the Grand Exam online school, notes that this may be the most important thing for universities: in terms of control over paid admissions, they will need to review their funding model. At the same time, it will be more difficult for applicants who were ready to enroll in the commercial department at the university to get to study.
Olga Panina, Head of the Department of State and Municipal Management at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, believes that budget places at universities should, in principle, "cover the country's need for personnel, which primarily ensure the achievement of technological sovereignty in the future." She believes that a new mechanism for monitoring the employment of graduates who have studied under government orders can also be created.
Timofey Voronin expressed the opinion that it is necessary to increase the number of target places "with stricter requirements for such training agreements." Meanwhile, Phystech recalls that a new mechanism for allocating targeted places has already appeared through the federal portal "Work in Russia", which has made the admission of "target students" "more transparent and competitive, increasing its attractiveness to applicants."
Vladimir Kolodkin, Vice-Rector of the Presidential Academy, emphasizes that the state as a whole is taking steps aimed at "more systematic and large-scale regulation of the training of specialists who are able to solve the tasks of ensuring the country's technological leadership in key industries," but it will be possible to assess the scale of upcoming changes and their impact only after the official publication of at least drafts of relevant documents.
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