The increase in budgetary places in IT specialties in universities of the Russian Federation in the 2015-2016 academic year

The Ministry of Education and Science approved enrollment targets (PCP) for the 2015–2016 academic year for IT specialties. According to the results of the joint work of the specialized departments of the PCC on IT specialties, in general, increased by 34%. At the same time, admission to the magistracy program in the specialty "computer science and computing" increased by 74%, "information systems and technologies" - by 208%, "applied computer science" - by 191%, "information and communication technologies and communication systems" - by 202% . [Unfortunately, I could not find the original ruling on the website of the Ministry of Education and Science.]

In July 2013, Nikolai Nikiforov, Minister of Communications, presented the Strategy for the Development of the IT Industry in the Russian Federation for 2014–2020 at the Government meeting prepared by the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media. and for the future up to 2025 ”[about which there was an article on Habré ], separately singled out the direction of training as one of the main ones. The minister stated a serious shortage of specialists. Now the industry employs about 300 thousand people., Another 700 thousand IT professionals work in it indirectly (employees of IT departments of companies-customers of IT). “The need until 2018 is estimated at more than 350 thousand people,” Nikiforov estimates. “Of these, 150 thousand, as we understand, will be prepared within the budget framework of the Ministry of Education and Science, thus, there remains a deficit of about 200 thousand people.”

Source: Website of the Ministry of Communications of the Russian Federation