Nearly 1.1 million people who graduated from universities between 2019 and 2021 worked in an industry related to their major in Russia in 2022. The number of graduates employed in the field of study decreased from the previous year, as did the total number of recent graduates.
Number of university graduates working and not working in their field of study in Russia from 2019 to 2022
(in 1,000s)
Characteristic
Working in their field of study
Not working in their field of study
2022 (graduated in 2019-2021)
1,076
422
2021 (graduated in 2018-2020)
1,244.63
446.98
2020 (graduated in 2017-2019)
1,283.8
547.3
2019 (graduated in 2016-2018)
1,410.3
634.5
05001,0001,5002,0002,500
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