Determinants of Future Profession Choice in Students' Educational Strategies or Russian Students

The relevance of the study is due to the need to optimize the process of reproduction and building up the human capital of the Russian Federation, where the primary place belongs to education. The educational strategies of Russian students has become actual topic in the current conditions of transition to the sixth technological mode, when the formation of a learning society and knowledge economy is of particular importance, which requires additional investment in human capital and educational capital in particular. The author wants to describe the educational strategies of Moscow students as dynamic systems of perspective orientation of the individual, as well as constructing their future life in accordance with a certain plan.

The empirical basis of the research was the data of the sociological study "Students of Russia: civic culture and life strategies", conducted in April-May 2022 by the method of an online survey. Having carried out an exploratory factor analysis by the method of principal components and rotation by the Varimax method, the author identify factors that allow interpreting various educational strategies for choosing a direction of study by students.

Comparing the social practices of students in Moscow and the regions, identifying the dominant factors in choosing a specialty, the authors identify specialty choice indices that are determined by different factors and lead to students' adherence to different types of educational strategies: «rational» strategy, "inner circle of trust" strategy and «random choice». The author paid attention, that the development of the educational capital of the younger generation is an important task in the process of ensuring the development of the entire Russian society as a whole.