Academic Studies at Russian State Universities

State Funding vs. Tuition Fees

Author(s): Christine Teichmann
Editor(s): Jeronim Perovic, Robert Orttung, Matthias Neumann, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Issue: 37
Pages: 16-18
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen
Publication Year: 2008

In the former Soviet Union, university education was available without cost or tuition fees for students of the state universities. In the Russian Federation, on the other hand, fees have been charged since the first half of the 1990s, not only at private colleges, but also at state institutions that off er, in addition to statefunded places, further curricula for which tuition fees must be paid. The universities use the income thus generated to make up for some of the long-standing shortfalls in state grants. Nevertheless, one of the primary goals of education policy is to provide the citizens of Russia with free competitive academic education, as the constitution mandates.

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