Khramova M.N., Shipilova M.A. The potential of educational migration from China, Vietnam and Japan in the context of solving the demographic and socio-economic problems of Russia. Nauchnoe obozrenie. Seriya 2. Gumanitarnye nauki [Scientific Review. Series 2. Human Sciences]. 2021. No. 4-5. Р. 15-30. DOI: 10.26653 ...

Abstract

In the modern world, educational migration is gaining in scale, and the list of countries attractive to foreign youth is also expanding. Leading universities, included in various rankings, implement many educational programs aimed at attracting foreign students. For Russia, increasing the number of foreign students in universities is one of the priority tasks set in the National Education Project. In this work, based on data from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, as well as data from Rosstat, we analyze the dynamics of the number of foreign students from a number of Asian countries in Russian universities. It is shown that over the past ten years, the number of foreign students studying in Russia for undergraduate and graduate programs has doubled. This became possible both thanks to the active work of universities in positioning Russian educational programs, and thanks to a number of interstate agreements that allow foreign students to receive education in Russia for free. And, although the main potential for attracting foreign students is still concentrated in the CIS countries, Russia has good chances of increasing flows of educational migrants from the countries of the Asia-Pacific region, including China, Japan and Vietnam. We are formulating a number of proposals that can help increase the attractiveness of Russia for students from these countries.