Undergraduates’ expectations from the educational program “Rural Development Project Management”

The article presents the results of a study of the expectations of undergraduates of the educational program “Rural Development Project Management”. The relevance of the projected results of the Master’s degree program is checked by the representations of student-practitioners from among the employees of the municipalities of the South of Russia. A brief review of the publications shows the relevance and importance of studying the opinions of undergraduates and designing an educational program based on the specification of an educational request. The theoretical analysis of publications in the subject area and methodological approaches in studying the expectations of students in higher education programs formed the basis for the development of an empirical research program. The empirical part presents the results of a survey of undergraduates of the 1st year of study “Rural Development Project Management”. A total of 36 people took part in the survey. The results were processed in the SPSS Statistics program (version 24). The analytical materials obtained are important for improving the Master’s program and improving the quality of educational content.