Foreign Experience in Managing Educational Emigration of Youth

Educational migration has become an integral part of the development of higher education systems in large countries and a way to solve several social, economic, and demographic problems. The article analyzes the approaches of a few states to the regulation of outbound educational migration, i.e. aimed at preserving human capital within the country, or an attempt to attract students studying abroad to scientific, social, cultural, or economic projects implemented by the country. The article identifies three groups of tools used in the state policy of educational migration management: retention, return and involvement. Examples of countries implementing certain programs belonging to these three groups are given. The paper analyzes the shortcomings of domestic methods of managing the flows of educational migrants and makes recommendations that could be considered when adjusting national policy in this area, allowing expanding the target audience of measures already being implemented, as well as allowing Russia to use the potential of students abroad of domestic students within the framework of “brain circulation”.