Branches in the Ecosystem of Russian Universities: Problem Statement and Definition of Prospects

A distributed university as a model of an educational ecosystem seems promising and has already proven its relevance and viability. Branches and representative offices of leading universities in the regions are unconditional outposts for the involvement of wide and diverse (in terms of gender, age, cognitive and value) social groups in research, production and design practices. Moreover, branches are able to act as the core of the dissemination of socio-cultural initiatives at the local level, saturate the regions with the necessary highly professional personnel. The Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, as the leading higher education institution in the country, whose branch network includes 27 branches implementing higher and secondary vocational education programs, plays a significant role in the formation of personnel for the industries of the real sector of the economy and the management level of the regions. In the Krasnodar Territory, the Financial University is represented by two branches in Krasnodar and Novorossiysk. This article provides data, quantitative and qualitative data, revealing the features of the functioning of a part of the educational ecosystem of the Financial University in this region.