Spatial dynamics of personnel training in universities United States of America
Abstract. The subject of this study is defined as a system for training highly qualified personnel in the United States, which has more than a century-old tradition of space-time evolution, based on the historical development of a network of higher educational institutions in the country, the basis of which is represented by research universities. Using the methods of economic and statistical analysis, undertaken within the framework of the evolutionary genetic approach, a study was carried out of the spatial dynamics of training highly qualified personnel (doctors of science) at US universities over a hundred-year period from 1919 to 2019. Based on the results obtained for the distribution of highly qualified personnel at various stages of their careers, tied to the place of birth, graduation from high school, obtaining an academic degree and main job, an assessment of the spatial-temporal dynamics of the geographical distribution of doctors of sciences in the statistical regions of the United States was given, and spatial-temporal trends of the research subject as an economic phenomenon were identified.
Keywords: highly qualified personnel, US universities, US higher education system, US research universities, geographic distribution of scientists
Highlights:
♦ directions of the spatial organization of highly qualified personnel training in the United States, associated with the network of American universities in 1919-2019, were explored;
♦ the distribution of highly qualified personnel at various stages of their careers was presented based on the place of birth, graduation from high school, obtaining an academic degree and main job; an assessment of the spatial and temporal dynamics of the geographical distribution of doctors of sciences in the statistical regions of the United States was given;
♦ the spatio-temporal trends have been identified, reflecting the dynamics of the training of highly qualified personnel carried out by American research universities in the context of the geographical distribution of scientists with a doctoral degree.
Valery N. Minat, Ryazan State Agrotechnological University named after P.A. Kostychev, Ryazan, Russia