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Samara National Research University has traditionally been included by experts in the top 20 of the ranking; it has risen by 1 position in a year, compared to 2024, taking the 14th place.
According to the research, the average salary of young people with Samara University’s IT-specialty diploma, who had graduated in 2019–2024, grew over the year by 10,000 rubles, and amounted to 160,000 rubles. Herewith, the ranking-makers indicate that 85% of the University’s IT-specialty graduates of that period remained working in the Samara Region.
The ranking leaders are still the capital’s universities: the 1st position took Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, the 2nd – ITMO University and Lomonosov Moscow State University, the 3rd place was shared by Bauman Moscow State Technical University, National Research Nuclear University “MIPhI”, and the Higher School of Economics.
In 2025, the Samara Region is represented in the ranking by 3 universities: Samara University (14th place), Samara State Technical University (16th place) and Volga Region State University of Telecommunications and Informatics (18th place).
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The ranking has been compiled by the SuperJob Research Centre, based on comparing average income of Russian university’s graduate students of 2019–2024. State universities – classical and specialized technical ones – took part in the research. The SuperJob CV base (over 30 mln CVs) and other open sources are used for data sources.
The data-collection period is 2 months before the ranking release date. For each university participating in the ranking, the sample is at least 70 resumes of graduates of specialized faculties,in the specified graduation period, excluding resumes of interns, junior specialists, applicants with less than 1 year of work experience in the specialty.
Resumes for positions in Software Development, Information Security, Software Testing, DevOps, Analytics, Data Research, Machine Learning, and Data Engineering are considered.
