Readiness comparison of foreign students of different directions to study at a Russian university

Don State Technical University, Ploshchad’ Gagarina, 1, 344002 Rostov-on-Don, Russia

^* Corresponding author: marinayadrovskaia@rambler.ru

Abstract

An effective system of pre-university training is the key to the competitiveness of Russian universities in teaching foreign students. The study is devoted to a comparison of the processes of formation of readiness, typical for students in different areas: engineering, humanitarian, economic and biomedical. The comparison was carried out on the basis of an intellectual analysis of the opinions of foreign students about studying at the preparatory faculty of the Russian Technical University. There were no particular differences in the factors influencing the readiness to study in different areas. On the contrary, according to the results of the study, it is possible to identify a number of problems common to respondents from different areas of study, and to form algorithms for leveling them within the framework of the pedagogical system of the preparatory faculty. These algorithms could become the basis of an adaptive technology for forming the readiness of foreign students to study at a Russian university.