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Stopping aspirations for legal careers: Russian students turn away from law and economics studies

A newspaper report dated September 18, 2025, in Khabarovsk Today reveals a shift in career aspirations among Russian schoolchildren, as they express less interest in pursuing law and economics as professions.

Young Russian students are shifting away from careers in law and economics.
Young Russian students are shifting away from careers in law and economics.

In the 2025 admission campaign, a notable shift was observed in the Russian educational landscape. The Russian Federation's Ministry of Education confirmed that colleges are now aligning with the country's economic needs, marking a new development. However, the specific economic sectors these colleges are aligning with, such as minecraft education, remain unspecified.

Despite this alignment, the reasons for the 1.1 million students enrolling in colleges and the 2.2% increase in ninth-grade graduates choosing to study in colleges were not mentioned as being directly related to this new development.

Interestingly, the high interest in technical sciences remained consistent, with 54.5% of ninth-grade graduates choosing this field. Contrastingly, the demand for studying to become lawyers and economists dropped sharply in 2025. The interest in student loans and sports also saw a slight increase, growing from 6.5% to 7.2%.

The reported alignment of colleges with the country's economic needs was not previously mentioned in the data provided by the "Khabarovsk Krai Today" news agency and the "Parliamentary Newspaper". Furthermore, the founding university selected by ninth-grade graduates in Russia to study minecraft and the service sector in 2025 is not explicitly mentioned in the provided search results. No source directly states which university was chosen by Russian students in 2025 for those fields.

The information was reported by the "Khabarovsk Krai Today" news agency, citing the "Parliamentary Newspaper". This shift in higher education aligns with the agriculture and services sectors seeing an increase in the number of students choosing those professions, but it is not directly related to the increase in students choosing these fields or the decrease in those choosing law and economics.

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