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Sys Rev Pharm 2020; 11(2): 317 328 A multifaceted review journal in the field of pharmacy E-ISSN 0976-2779 P-ISSN 0975-8453 Higher Pharmaceutical Education in Russia: Economic Assessment of Accessibility and Regional Specifics Danil Alekseevich Zyukin1,*, Tatyana Anatolievna Oleinikova2, Alexander Vladimirovich Evstratov3, Natalya Mitrofanovna Sergeeva2, Elena Vasilievna Reprintseva2, Vladimir Olegovich Ulyanov2 1 Kursk State Agricultural Academy named after I.I. Ivanova, 305021, Kursk, st. Karl Marx, 70 2 Kursk State Medical University, 305000, Kursk, st. Karl Marx, 3 3 Volgograd State Technical University, 400005, Volgograd, ave. Lenin, 28 *E-mail: [email protected] Article History: Submitted: 28.11.2019 Revised: 15.01.2020 Accepted: 10.02.2020 ABSTRACT The article presents the monitoring of the affordability of higher The level of market concentration of the educational services market pharmaceutical education in Russia for 2017-2019. A comparative participants in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, as analysis of the prices set by universities and the standard costs for the well as within the constituent entities for higher educational provision of public services for the implementation of educational institutions in 2017-2019, was determined, and a conclusion was programs of higher education in the specialty 33.05.01 "Pharmacy" is drawn on the dynamics of the development of this market considering carried out. The amplitude and dynamics of the cost of educational its regional specificity. services in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation are Keywords: higher pharmaceutical education, affordability, educational determined. A grouping of educational organizations was carried out services, tuition, per capita income. taking into account the level of the price segment of the educational Correspondence: services offered, which made it possible to identify the percentage Danil Alekseevich Zyukin ratio of universities in different cost registers. It is shown that pricing Kursk State Agricultural Academy strategies of universities are determined by the solvency of the Ivanova, Kursk population of the subject of the Russian Federation. The regions of E-mail: [email protected] Russia with a high and low level of affordability of educational services DOI: 10.5530/srp.2020.2.49 for the training of “Pharmacist” qualifications have been identified. @Advanced Scientific Research. All rights reserved INTRODUCTION education in Russia, considering its regional specificity. According to expert forecasts, the Russian pharmaceutical Regions of Russia with a high and low level of affordability market has significant prospects for internal and external of educational services for the training of qualifiers growth and will become one of the largest in Europe in the are identified as a result of a system analysis next decade. The rapid development of the and application of the method of average values. The level pharmaceutical industry and the pharmaceutical market of market concentration of educational services market has led to a sharp increase in the demand for highly participants in the constituent entities of the Russian qualified personnel in the pharmaceutical field [1]. A Federation is determined. A comparative analysis was study of market conditions shows that currently the labor used to study the prices set by universities for higher market is in urgent need of competent specialists [2-6], pharmaceutical education in Russia in 2017-2019 and the including in the field of pharmaceutical education. The standard costs for the provision of public services for the ongoing changes in the labor market create prerequisites implementation of higher education educational for the study of new development trends [7 9]. In the context of the formation of digital space, there is a need to analysis is updated in determining the amplitude and use information and analytical support for the industry in dynamics of the cost of educational services in the combination with the necessary level of competence of constituent entities of the Russian Federation. Using the specialists [11-12]. Thus, the specifics of the development grouping method, educational organizations were ranked of the global pharmaceutical market dictates the need for taking into account the level of the price segment of the new specialists in the field of pharmacy [13]. At the same educational services offered, which made it possible to time, the question arises of the degree of satisfaction of identify the percentage of universities in different cost health care needs in the country [10]. registers. An assessment of the affordability of According to previous studies, it has been established that pharmaceutical education for the population on an 60 state educational organizations are currently training in extrabudgetary basis was carried out using a correlation analysis between the average per capita income of the universities, training is carried out both on a budgetary population and the average cost of training in federal and extra-budgetary form. In connection with the districts. When determining the level of market tendency to increase extrabudgetary and reduce budget concentration of educational services market participants places, it is of interest to study the possibilities of potential in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, as applicants for higher pharmaceutical education in the well as within the constituent entities, the Herfindahl- Russian Federation on an extrabudgetary basis. The main Hirschman index was calculated on the basis of these objective of this study was to monitor the affordability of market shares in value terms. Using content analysis, we Russian pharmaceutical education and identify the studied the information presented on the official websites regional specifics of this market. of educational institutions included in the study, as well as the official website of the Federal State Statistics Service. MATERIALS AND METHODS In accordance with the goal of the study, the authors The method of scientific abstraction made it possible to determined a sequence of actions (Fig. 1), consisting of identify a number of key trends in the dynamics of the systematization of prices for educational services and development of the market for higher pharmaceutical analysis of per capita incomes of the population, determining the amplitude and dynamics of prices, 317 Systematic Review Pharmacy Vol 11, Issue 2, Mar Apr, 2020 Danil Alekseevich Zyukin et al / Higher Pharmaceutical Education in Russia: Economic Assessment of Accessibility and Regional Specifics grouping prices, conducting a correlation analysis, and the Northeast Federal University of Yakutsk, the Far calculating the market concentration index and output on Eastern Federal District. the affordability of the pharmaceutical education market Thus, the cost of training in the specialty 33.05.01 in Russia. "Pharmacy" does not exceed 165.9 thousand rubles in most regions of Russia in the 2019-2020 academic year. At RESULTS AND DISCUSSION the same time, educational services of higher education The economic assessment of the availability of are available for the population of the Far Eastern Federal pharmaceutical education was carried out for 2017-2019 District pharmaceutical at prices below the average and at 59 universities located in nine federal districts: Central average levels according to the grouping. In Moscow, (CFD), North-Western (NWFD), Southern (SFD), North higher pharmaceutical education of the lower price Caucasian (NCFD), Volga Federal District (VFD), Ural segment (98.3 - 233.5 thousand rubles) is not available. (UFD), Siberian (SFD), Far Eastern (FEFD), Crimean In order to analyze the dynamics for 2017-2019, the (CFD) and Moscow (Table 1). growth rates of tuition prices in all the universities studied According to the developed concept, at the first stage of were calculated. The analysis showed that the maximum the study, the amplitude of prices for tuition in the cost of educational services in two years increased at Novgorod State University from 110.0 to 161.1 thousand country as a whole was determined (Table 2). It has been rubles (GR = 46.5%) and St. Petersburg University of revealed that for three years the maximum cost of Chemical Pharmaceuticals (SPFU) from 134.0 to 190.0 preparing pharmacists is offered by Moscow State thousand rubles (GR = 41.8%) of the North-West Federal University (MSU), the minimum Dagestan State Medical District. High growth rates were also demonstrated by: University (DSMU) in 2017 and 2019, and the North Tyumen State Medical University (GR = 39.1%), Buryat Ossetian State Medical Academy (NOSMA) in 2018. The State University (GR = 38.7%) and Ulyanovsk State price range across the country in the analyzed period University (GR = 36.7%). Moreover, according to the ranged from 309.0 thousand rubles in 2018 to 337.7 grouping by price level, Novgorod, Buryat and Ulyanovsk thousand rubles in 2019. universities entered the category of universities with low According to state regulation of the lower border of the tuition in the 2019-2020 academic year. price of higher education services in 2018, the standard The minimum price increase is observed in Voronezh costs for the provision of public services for the State Medical University from 107.5 to 112.0 thousand implementation of higher education educational rubles (GR = 4.2%), North Caucasus Federal University programs amounted to 90.11 thousand rubles, 98.3 from 124.8