ECONOMIC SECURITY OF HIGHER EDUCATION: QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS
The article ends a series of publications with the general title «Economic security of higher education». The article analyzes the indicators of economic security for Volga Federal District, as well as the comparison of regions on the average index of six projections of economic security (students, lecturers, science and innovation, networking and mobility, sustainability of resource provision, economic and structural efficiency). The analysis showed the presence of a large differentiation of regions in different projections of economic security. In particular, in projection «Networking and Mobility» the leaders are the Republic of Tatarstan, Saratov, Penza, Samara, Orenburg and Nizhny Novgorod regions, the outsider is the Kirov region which has an extremely low number of centers for collective use. Research of composite index of economic security of higher education in regions of Volga Federal District showed that most of the regions of the Volga Federal District generally exceed the required level of economic security of higher professional education. The leaders are the Republic of Mordovia, Saratov and Penza regions, the outsiders are Chuvash Republic, Perm and Orenburg regions.