The quality of university educational programs on environmental and agrobiological focus in graduates’ opinion

¹ Stavropol State Agrarian University, 12, Zootekhnicheskiy Lane, Stavropol, 355017, Russia
² North Ossetian State University, 44-46, Vatutina Street, Vladikavkaz, 362025, Russia
³ Kuban State Agrarian University, 13, Kalinina Street, Krasnodar, 350044, Russia
⁴ North Caucasus Federal University, 1, Pushkin Street, Stavropol, 355017, Russia

^* Corresponding author: vivashov@mail.ru

Abstract

The article presents the opinions of the of universities’ graduates in the South of Russia on the quality of the university educational programs on environmental and agrobiological focus. A brief review of publications conducted on the basis of systematic selection in the main knowledge-intensive databases confirms the relevance of the proposed research question. The assessment of the quality of training of agrobiological and environmental specialists is considered by the scientific community as a significant social and educational problem. The empirical part of the study examines the opinions of graduates of environmental and agrobiological educational programs in the South of Russia in terms of their assessments of the quality of education received. A total of 396 graduates took part in the survey. The results were processed in the SPSS Statistics program (version 24). The strategic vectors of increasing the quality of university educational programs in the field of ecology and agrobiology are: the development of competencies for environmentally safe and responsible entrepreneurship; international standardization of the quality of agricultural education to ensure the sustainable development of agricultural production, food and environmental safety; work with digital process assistants.