Kazan school graduates mostly choose IT and medicine at universities and colleges

Mostly IT and medicine are chosen
48% of the parents in Kazan talk about studying in the high school and entering a university. More than a quarter (26%) said their children were going to enter colleges. Some 3% said after school their child won’t continue studying but immediately find a job. Another 20% haven’t made a decision yet.
The profession of programmer (33%) is also in the lead among university applicants. Medicine (15%) ranks second. Another 10% of the applicants are going to become economists. 6% of the respondents decided to become an engineer or psychologist.
At the same time, the data on the number of students sitting state exams says that fewer graduates choose chemistry and biology than during the previous years.
7,388 people decided to sit an exam in biology after grade nine in 2019. This year, their number has reduced to 6,386. There has been a decrease in the number of people doing an exam in this subject after grade eleven in the last four years — by 756 people.
Chemistry shows a higher pace of lower popularity for state examination. This year, the number of students in this exam has fallen by a third. 3,530 people will sit it this year against 5,301 in 2019.
The quantity of students doing this exam after grade eleven. So 1,750 people did an exam in informatics in 2019, 1,948 did in 2020, 2,307 in 2021. This year, 2,814 will take a state exam in informatics.