Survey: experts compared IT education in Russia, USA, India and China

In all sample countries, students took a standardized two-hour test in computer science,

It was created for the study by the Educational Testing Service.As part of it, participants had to answer questions on programming, software engineering and information management.

The leader of this test were senior students.US technological universities. Students from Russia, China and India scored the same number of points. Moreover, even the average American student received more points than 80% of students from the second group.

With all the demand for specialists in the fieldcomputer science, we do not know very well about the quality of university training in IT areas in different countries. This study is the first step towards understanding the level of computer science education in the USA, China, India and Russia.

Academic Director of the Higher School of Economics Institute of Education Isak Frumin

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