Calculation 3. Comparison of bachelor’s and third (educational and scientific level) subject to training at each of these levels for 4 years.

The size of the index of the third level of higher education is significantly underestimated, because it is not easy to imagine that the annual complexity and cost of training one graduate student is 80 % of the training of one bachelor!

The third level of higher education is educational and scientific. As the name implies, it has two components: educational and scientific. In the current Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers No. 1146 I_r = 0.8.

First, consider the educational component. Clause 26 of the Procedure for Training Applicants for Higher Education with the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of Science in Higher Education Institutions (Scientific Institutions), approved by the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine of March 23, 2016 No. 261 states that the curriculum of postgraduate studies disciplines should be 30–60 credits. To simplify the calculations, we will take the volume of the educational component of 50 credits, which can be distributed between the four years of training of a doctor of philosophy.

As for the bachelor’s level, we assume that the number of applicants for educational and scientific level is equal to 100 people. Focusing on the volume of the state order for the training of scientific and pedagogical staff through postgraduate and doctoral studies in 2020, we can assume that on average higher education institutions recruit about 5 people for the educational program, who study in one group. Thus, we have 20 groups of graduate students (N = 20).

Clause 27 of the Procedure for Training Applicants for Higher Education with the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of Science in Higher Education Institutions stipulates that the applicant of the third educational and scientific degree must master universal research skills, general scientific (philosophical) and language competencies. The volumes of this component are set in accordance with the standard of higher education. Assume that the training for this component is approximately 30 % of the total hours. We also envisage conducting lectures in groups of 25 people (M = 4). Then in calculation for all educational components of preparation of the postgraduate student we receive: