Institutional dynamics in Russian high education: machinery and trajectory

Differentiation or institutional differentiation is the formation of sustainable models of organization of the work of universities (reproduced in main processes, management, programs and results) as an integrated response to a specific historical combination of factors of the external and the internal environment. Based on the analysis of the drivers of differentiation authors described 4 models of higher education institutions are being created in Russia: 1) University-Researcher, 2) University-System Integrator, 3) University-Regional Integrator, 4) University-Local Human Resource Constructor.