The head of the Ministry of Education and Science, Valery Falkov, proposed canceling preferential loans for the training of lawyers, economists and managers. There is already “an overwhelming number of these specialists in the country,” the minister said at a meeting of the Budget and Tax Committee of the State Duma, Kommersant writes.
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According to Falkov, from 2025 the Ministry of Education and Science will propose to stop granting educational loans with state support for training in the specialties of economics, management and jurisprudence. The benefits will be maintained only for those who enroll in technical, natural sciences, pedagogical and medical specialties.
Now in Russia, an educational loan can be obtained for the entire period of study with the possibility of repaying it within 15 years after graduation. The borrower pays only 3% of the total interest rate on the loan, the rest is subsidized by the State. According to the results of the last academic year, the areas of “law” and “economics” became the most popular in the educational loan segment.
Inna Soldatenkova, head of expert analysis at Banki.ru, suggested that the rejection of preferential loans is due to the fact that the difference between the preferential rate and the key rate is increasing. “For banks to work with products such as state educational loans is not particularly profitable,” the expert explained.
Director of the Center for Economics of Continuing Education at RANEPA, Tatyana Klyachko, noted that “applicants who want to obtain an education in strong universities, where even students with 80 points may not have enough points, may be affected by this decision” .
In September, RB.RU published a list of 15 leading Russian universities offering programs for future entrepreneurs and managers.
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