Accessibility of higher education for russian population: what show the results of the researches?

In the first part of the article there are presented researches that focused on impact analysis of social and economic differentiation of population on accessibility of higher education. The second part of the article represents works where the main subjects are institutional factors that influence differences in opportunities of getting higher education for all sorts of categories. And finally in the third part of the article there are presented digests of the projects devoted to peculiarities of the problems of accessibility of higher education for separate social and territorial groups: inhabitants of national autonomy of Russian Federation, disabled, immigrants.