Director of Educational Policy of NCFU Vasily Ivanov gave a short interview to the information and analytical portal "Kavkaz Segodnya", in which he spoke about the current trends in the request for higher education.

Vasily Ivanov stressed that the average score for IT and engineering areas was almost equal to the average score for economic areas of training. Competitive places – five or six people per place:

– Recently, there has been a transition of demand from the humanitarian and economic block to the technical one. The demand is now going to IT-areas. This is the driver of the applicants ' desire. Engineering areas are gradually moving from a state of non-demand to a state of stable interest of applicants.

The reason is that the IT areas, especially in recent years, have shown that there is a huge demand and demand for specialists here. Plus informatization, digitalization of the entire economy of the country. Youth watch TV and understand that this is such a steady trend for many years to come. A slight drop in demand for humanitarian, economic, and legal areas is due to an overabundance of specialists in this market. Therefore, he begins to move into a more balanced state. And there is a demand for engineering specialties due to the obsolescence of personnel. New lines, workshops, factories are increasingly appearing, and the volume of manufactured products is increasing. There is an understanding that a younger generation is needed, because the average age of engineers at factories is quite respectable. And now there are open vacancies at a number of enterprises with a good salary in the engineering field of training.

We have had an economy focused on commodity-export relations for a very long time. Therefore, a large number of economists and lawyers were needed to execute transactions. Now there is a turn towards the real sector of the economy, production is beginning to revive. Therefore, I think we will have a demand for engineering areas for a very long time.