How much do graduates of different Russian universities earn
At My Circle, we have recently been working on the education profile of our users, as we believe that education, both higher and additional, is the most important component of a modern career in IT.
profiles of universities and institutions add. education, which collects statistics on their graduates, as well as the ability to indicate in your professional profile the courses completed. Then about the role of education in employment and career of IT specialists.
Further, we became curious about how much graduates of different universities earn who have become developers and have worked for 4 years or more after graduation. Today we will try to answer this question.
Methodological explanations
In this study, we will only look at back-end, front-end and full-stack developers. For more reliable data, we will take only those of them who studied at universities, which are listed by 100 or more My Circle users and who recruited 10 or more graduates with salaries. We will also leave only those who graduated from the university no later than 2015 and had at least 4 years left to build a career. Finally, we will limit the sample to only those who visited the service during the last year, which means that they most likely updated their profile data.
As a result, we get about 9 thousand graduate developers from 150 Russian universities.
Geography of education and migration of graduates
A tenth of the developers are prepared by the universities of St. Petersburg, a fourth - by the universities of Moscow, almost a third are in the universities of million-plus cities and another third - in the universities of other cities.
It will be correct to compare the salaries of graduates within the respective regions, because . At the same time, we know that the city of higher education will not necessarily be the same as the city of work in the future: many graduates return to their home cities or, on the contrary, move to new places.
Having considered which of the graduates we studied, their current city differs from the city of the completed university, we got the following amazing picture. It turned out that almost every second graduate who studied in an ordinary city leaves it. A third leave a city with a population of one million, almost one in five leaves a capital city.
Is everyone leaving the provinces for the capitals, we were horrified? Who then remains, where then all our cities and villages, someone else lives in them? Maybe everyone is leaving the country altogether? After counting further, we sighed a little. After studying, they go not only to the capitals, but also to millionaires and other cities.
Two-thirds of those who leave Moscow after their studies, a third of those who leave St. Petersburg, and a fifth of those who leave millionaires go to their hometowns. The largest share of those who went abroad after studying was in St. Petersburg (13%), followed by Moscow (9%).
But still, we see a strong bias: Moscow and St. Petersburg are clearly pulling graduates from other regions. We see our "forge of personnel", but the question of how this forge is restored remains open to other research.
Finally, here are the top Russian cities where developers leave after receiving their education, and let's move on to salaries.
| City of relocation after high school | The share of those who moved to the city, in relation to other cities | |
| 1 | Moscow | 40,5% |
| 2 | St. Petersburg | 18,3% |
| 3 | Krasnodar | 3,2% |
| 4 | Novosibirsk | 2,0% |
| 5 | Ekaterinburg | 1,6% |
| 6 | Rostov-on-Don | 1,4% |
| 7 | Kazan | 1,4% |
| 8 | Nizhny Novgorod | 0,8% |
| 9 | Kaliningrad | 0,8% |
| 10 | Sochi | 0,7% |
| 11 | Innopolis | 0,7% |
Salaries of graduate developers from Moscow universities
If we do not take into account the migration of developers after graduation, then we get the following median salaries, which are now received by graduates of Moscow universities who have become developers and have worked for 4 years or more after graduation.
| The name of the university | Current median graduate salary |
| MADI | 165000 |
| MEPhI (NRNU) | 150000 |
| Moscow State University. Lomonosov | 150000 |
| MTUCI | 150000 |
| RCTU them. DI. Mendeleev | 150000 |
| MIEM them. A. N. Tikhonova | 150000 |
| MPEI (NRU) | 145000 |
| MIREA | 140000 |
| MESI | 140000 |
| MSTU "STANKIN" | 140000 |
| VSHPIM MPU | 140000 |
| MGIU | 135000 |
| MSTU them. N.E. Bauman | 130000 |
| MAI (NRU) | 130000 |
| RTH (MIIT) | 130000 |
| MIEM HSE | 130000 |
| ISOT MSTU im. Bauman | 122500 |
| SUM | 120000 |
| REU them. G.V. Plekhanov | 115000 |
| MIT | 110000 |
| RSUH | 110000 |
| MGOU | 110000 |
| HSE (NRU) | 109000 |
| RUDN University | 107500 |
| MSUTU them. K.G. Razumovsky | 105000 |
| MGSU (NRU) | 101000 |
| RSSU | 100000 |
| Russian State University of Oil and Gas. I. M. Gubkina (NRU) | 100000 |
| University βSynergyβ | 90000 |
| NUST "MISIS" | 90000 |
| IFLA | 90000 |
| RosNOU | 80000 |
| Moscow Polytechnic | 70000 |
| MPGU | 70000 |
If we look separately - at the salaries of developers who remained in Moscow after education, and developers who left the city - we will see that those who left the salary are often a little lower. This difference is explained by our calculations above, where we observed that the majority of people leaving Moscow go to ordinary cities where wages are lower than in Moscow.
In the diagram below, we show only those universities for which 10 or more salaries have accumulated, both for the remaining and for the departed graduates.
Salaries of graduates-developers from universities of St. Petersburg
Salaries of graduates from the universities of St. Petersburg who have become developers and have worked for 4 years or more after graduation, without taking into account their further migration.
| The name of the university | Current median graduate salary |
| SPbGMTU | 145000 |
| St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University "LETI" | 120000 |
| BSTU "VOENMEH" D.F. Ustinov | 120000 |
| SPbSU | 120000 |
| St. Petersburg State University ITMO (NRU) | 110000 |
| SPbPU of Peter the Great | 100000 |
| SPbGTI | 100000 |
| INGECON | 90000 |
| SPbGUT im. M.A. Bonch-Bruevich | 85000 |
| SPb GUAP | 80000 |
| RGPU them. A.I. Herzen | 80000 |
| SPbGEU | 77500 |
| SPbGUPTD | 72500 |
Let's look at the salaries of graduates of St. Petersburg universities - those who remained in the city after their studies and left it. Unlike Moscow, the salaries of those who have left are slightly higher. Most likely, this is due to the fact that - as we saw above - many people leave for Moscow and abroad, where salaries are higher.
Salaries of graduates-developers from universities of million-plus cities
Let's look at the salaries of graduates from universities in million-plus cities who have become developers and have worked for 4 years or more after graduation, without taking into account their further migration.
| University name (City) | Current median graduate salary |
| USU (Yekaterinburg) | 140000 |
| NSU (Novosibirsk) | 133500 |
| Omsk State University F.M. Dostoevsky (Omsk) | 130000 |
| SFedU (Rostov-on-Don) | 120000 |
| Samara University. S.P. Queen (Samara) | 120000 |
| VSU (Voronezh) | 120000 |
| BashSU (Ufa) | 120000 |
| NSTU (Novosibirsk) | 120000 |
| OmSTU (Omsk) | 120000 |
| NSUEM (Novosibirsk) | 120000 |
| PGUTI (Samara) | 120000 |
| VSTU (Voronezh) | 120000 |
| SibGAU (Krasnoyarsk) | 120000 |
| UNN them. N.I. Lobachevsky (Nizhny Novgorod) | 110000 |
| UGATU (Ufa) | 110000 |
| NSTU im. R. E. Alekseeva (Nizhny Novgorod) | 108000 |
| VolgGTU (Volgograd) | 100000 |
| KubGAU im. I.T. Trubilina (Krasnodar) | 100000 |
| DSTU (Rostov-on-Don) | 100000 |
| KubSU (Krasnodar) | 100000 |
| SUSU (Chelyabinsk) | 100000 |
| SibGUTI (Novosibirsk) | 100000 |
| UrFU them. B.N. Yeltsin (Yekaterinburg) | 100000 |
| ChelGU (Chelyabinsk) | 100000 |
| SFU (Krasnoyarsk) | 100000 |
| Samara State Technical University (Samara) | 100000 |
| KubGTU (Krasnodar) | 100000 |
| KSTU (Kazan) | 100000 |
| KNRTU (Kazan) | 99000 |
| PNIPU (Perm) | 97500 |
| KNRTU-KAI them. A.N. Tupolev (Kazan) | 90000 |
| KNRTU-KAI them. A. N. Tupolev (Kazan) | 90000 |
| SFU IKIT (Krasnoyarsk) | 80000 |
| RGEU (RINH) (Rostov-on-Don) | 80000 |
| KFU (Kazan) | 80000 |
| VolGU (Volgograd) | 80000 |
| NSPU (Novosibirsk) | 50000 |
When we look at the salaries of those who left the million-plus city after education and those who remained in it, we see a rather serious difference in salaries. For those who left, they are sometimes one and a half times higher, and even often more than the salaries of graduates of Moscow universities. It is unlikely that this is due to migration abroad: as we have seen, there are no more than 5% of such people in millionaires. Most likely, such salaries can be explained by the fact that the most qualified and most motivated for a career are leaving, surpassing those who sit in the place where they come
Salaries of graduates-developers from universities in other cities of Russia
Salaries of graduates from universities in ordinary cities who have become developers and have worked for 4 years or more after graduation, without taking into account their further migration.
| University name (City) | Current median graduate salary |
| Moscow State University N.P. Ogaryova (Saransk) | 160000 |
| MIET (NRU) (Zelenograd) | 150000 |
| TVGU (Tver) | 150000 |
| ISPU (Ivanovo) | 150000 |
| KF MSTU im. N.E. Bauman (Kaluga) | 145000 |
| SibSIU (Novokuznetsk) | 140000 |
| OrelGTU (Orel) | 139000 |
| UlGTU (Ulyanovsk) | 130000 |
| BSTU-Bryansk (Bryansk) | 130000 |
| NCFU (former SevKavGTU) (Stavropol) | 130000 |
| VlGU them. A. G. and N. G. Stoletovs (Vladimir) | 127500 |
| MIPT (Dolgoprudny) | 126000 |
| IATE NRNU MEPhI (Obninsk) | 125000 |
| BelSU (Belgorod) | 120000 |
| TulGU (Tula) | 120000 |
| RGRTU (Ryazan) | 120000 |
| VSU (former VoGTU) (Vologda) | 120000 |
| SevNTU (Sevastopol) | 120000 |
| YarGU im. P. G. Demidova (Yaroslavl) | 120000 |
| TSTU (Tambov) | 120000 |
| IrNITU (Irkutsk) | 120000 |
| FENU (Vladivostok) | 120000 |
| AltGTU im. I.I. Polzunova (Barnaul) | 112500 |
| AltGU (Barnaul) | 110000 |
| KemGU (Kemerovo) | 110000 |
| SevGU (Sevastopol) | 110000 |
| RSATU (Rybinsk) | 110000 |
| TPU (Tomsk) | 110000 |
| TSU (NI) (Tomsk) | 105600 |
| PetrSU (Petrozavodsk) | 105000 |
| YuRGPU (NPI) them. M.I. Platova (Novocherkassk) | 102500 |
| IzhGTU im. M.T. Kalashnikov (Izhevsk) | 100001 |
| SSU them. N.G. Chernyshevsky (Saratov) | 100000 |
| PSTU "VOLGATEKH" (Yoshkar-Ola) | 100000 |
| PSU (Penza) | 100000 |
| ChGU im. I.N. Ulyanova (Cheboksary) | 100000 |
| TUSUR (Tomsk) | 100000 |
| Innopolis (Innopolis) | 100000 |
| Tyumen State University (Tyumen) | 100000 |
| BSTU-Belgorod (Belgorod) | 100000 |
| TOGU (Khabarovsk) | 100000 |
| OSU (Orenburg) | 100000 |
| TTI - TF SFU (Taganrog) | 100000 |
| SGTU im. Yu.A. Gagarina (Saratov) | 100000 |
| UlGU (Ulyanovsk) | 100000 |
| TPU (NI) (Tomsk) | 100000 |
| ITA SFU (Taganrog) | 100000 |
| TNU-Simferopol (Simferopol) | 100000 |
| TSU (Tolyatti) | 96000 |
| UdGU (Izhevsk) | 95000 |
| MSTU im. G.I. Nosova (Magnitogorsk) | 93000 |
| TUIT (Tashkent) | 93000 |
| ISU (Irkutsk) | 90000 |
| VyatGU (Kirov) | 90000 |
| IKBFU I. Kant (Kaliningrad) | 90000 |
| FEFU (Vladivostok) | 90000 |
| S(A)FU im. M.V. Lomonosov (Arkhangelsk) | 90000 |
| PenzGTU (Penza) | 85000 |
| SWGU (Kursk) | 80000 |
| SSU them. P. Sorokina (Syktyvkar) | 80000 |
| KSU (Kurgan) | 80000 |
| ASTU (Astrakhan) | 80000 |
When examining separately the salaries of developers who left the city for education and remained in the city, we see approximately the same picture as in million-plus cities.
We hope you enjoy our latest exploration. In preparing it, we used the data , in which we collect salaries that IT specialists share with us. If you did not leave us your salary this semester, please come and share the information.
By the way, we have started to prepare another semi-annual report on salaries in IT. That's how it was .
Source: habr.com