Migration Attitudes of Graduate Students : on the Issue of “Brain Drain”

The article presents results of the inquiry that involved 803 postgraduate students of research organizations involved in the preparation of postgraduate students in the field of education sciences. The inquiry helps to investigate the specificity of plans of postgraduate students to work abroad and to move abroad for permanent residence. It also helps to reveal and describe the impacts of various socio-demographic and socio-stratification factors. In addition, there was made a comparison of the attitudes of postgraduate students and scientific researchers to temporary or permanent migration. The data is processed using mathematical statistics methods. The results of the study indicate that the migration attitudes of graduate students are determined by the influence of a number of socio-demographic (gender, age, presence and structure of the family) and socio-stratification (financial status, educational status of parents) factors. A comparison of the opinions of graduate students and scientific researchers shows that migration attitudes towards both temporary migration and emigration abroad are more widespread among postgraduate students than among scientific researchers.